BILLIARDS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XX, Issue 1121, 5 October 1911, Page 13

BILLIARDS.

Gray, who conceded Cook 6000 in a billiard match of 18,000 up, in London, ran out when his opponent’s score stood at 11,530. sj: # sj: The Billiards Association of Victoria considers that the present amateur definition requires amending, and with that object in view has invited the N.S.W. Association to send delegates to Melbourne about Cup time to consider the question. LINDRUM SAILS? FOR ENGLAND. Young Fred Lindrum and his father left Sydney on September 23 last by the s.s. Malwa, bound for London. A large number of friends and wellwishers of the youth assembled on the wharf to ‘bid him “au revoir,” and wish him every success in his travels. The Australian will leave the boat at Marseilles and travel overland to London, so that he may get in early for the season, and .also ahead of Stevenson. Tom Reece opens a four week’s engagement with the Australian in London, after which they will

head for Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, etc., and on to Scotland, where Lindrum intends having a brush with Scotland’s sterling champion, Tom Aiken. They will p’ay Glasgow, Edinburgh, and possibly Dundee and Aberdeen. A visit will also ce paid io the beautiful capital of the Emerald Isle, Dublin, where exhibitions will be played, after which a return will be made to the City of Smoke and FogsAn exhaustive tour will be made, and the- Lindrums anticipate returning in about six months. A generous arrangement on the part of Tom Reece was that Lindrum would reecive the major portion of the gate receipts during their matches, and as the Australian is sure to

prove an excellent draw-card he should return with a well-loaded purse. In this connection he has done the correct thing in going home a free man, under no ties or obliga ions to any firm or party, as a result of which all he makes will be his own, and no portion of it will find its way into the pockets of others, who simply sit back and collect the financial results of his labors. That he should make a power of money goes without saying, as he is a complete billiardist and a showman in his profession, while he is free to play who, where, and when he likes.