CRICKETERS AS BILLIARD PLAYERS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1008, 1 July 1909, Page 11

CRICKETERS AS BILLIARD PLAYERS.

It is no uncommon thing to find experts in other games and pastimes fairly expert on the billiard tables. Everyone can call to mind the success of Mr. Walter Brearley, the fast bowler, in the Manchester Charity Tournament. Then there was the old Yorkshire professional, J. T. Brown, who was quite up to championship form, and whose early death robbed us of a splendid player. “ Rangi,” the great cricketer, is an expert of the billiard room; Walter Lees, the Surrey bowler, is quite a good manipulator of the cue. Dr. W. G. Grace, E. Hayes, Albert Trott, Len Braund, and Alan Marshal are all individuals well known in cricket, and their powers at billiards are not to be sneered at. —S. H. Fry, in “ Fry’s Magazine. ’