HILLIARDS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1146, 28 March 1912, Page 19

HILLIARDS.

When John Roberts took up the English juvenile billiardist, Tommy Newman, it was generally considered that his idea was to use him as a kind of buffer to George Gray, after the latter had turned down the man who had ‘‘made billiards popular.” Now, it comes about that the chicken has emerged from the protecting wing of J. R., and issued a challenge to take 4000 in 16,000 from any player in England. This challenge should show Newman’s real quality, if any one of the big guns accept the defiance. If it is a genuine challenge and not Thrown out for a selected someone (previously notified of its appearance) to pick up, something good will come from it, and at the start of quarter of the game Gray should have little trouble in securing young Newman’s billiard locks if composition balls are th e playing material. Anyhow, Tommy Newman is such a promising player that he is almost sure to be one of the elect of English billiards before lie is many years older.

Certified plan o,f the position used by T. Reece in his world’s record break of 499,135, unfinished, in 1907, at Messrs Burroughes and Watts’s saloon in Soho-square. It was observed that the red ball revolved vertically once in 250 strokes, and the opponent’s ball horizontally once in 800 strokes.