Jottings of the Month

• There are suggestions in Leeds for municipal golf courses
  and billiard rooms.

• Fred Lindrum, jun., champion of Australia, is said to
  have made 687 off the red in a private 1,000 up.

• It is announced that the temperance billiard rooms in
  various London districts have proved a success financially.

• The Accrington magistrates have renewed licenses for
  billiard halls on condition that no one under eighteen years
  of age be allowed to play.

• Kalyin Demarest, the American boy champion billiard
  player, arrived at Plymouth on the liner Nieu Amsterdam
  on Feb. 8, from New York, en route for Paris.

• It is understood that Gray will play three matches at
  Holborn Hall, London, next month, and that Diggle will
  be his opponent in at least one of the games.

• In an interesting “relay” match, H. W. Stevenson defeated,
  on the 11th inst., four Newcastle professionals to
  whom he had conceded varying long starts.

• Stevenson is credited with having scored 20 points per
  minute at one part of his most recent match at Soho
  Square, and with having made 400 points in 22 minutes on
  one occasion last season.

• Many points in connection with billiards are crying aloud
  for reform. Why, for instance, should not all pocket openings
  be standardized in width and otherwise and the hire of
  all public tables charged for by time?

• There has latterly been a little slackening in the George
  Gray galops away from opponents. At Manchester Diggle
  during several days drew closely up and was occasionally
  ahead. Under the conditions this was a great performance.

• W. Pindar defeated G. Nelson for the Yorkshire championship
  by 8,000 to 7,021. The winner was presented with
  the championship cup, gold medal, and a cheque for 16gs.,
  representing two-thirds of the gate receipts, and Nelson
  received a cheque for 8gs.

• The royal warrant as billiard table makers to the King
  has been received by Messrs. Burroughes & Watts, Ltd.,
  Soho Square, W., by Messrs. Thurston & Co., Ltd.,
  Leicester Square, W.C., and by Messrs. Orme & Sons, Ltd.,
  Manchester.

• An international billiard tournament is in progress in
  New York. The German champion (Albert Poensgen) is
  contesting and the French champion (Darantierre) was
  expected. The American champion at 18.1 and 18.2 billiards
  (W. Hoppe) is retiring from the profession.

• The preliminary heat of 9,000 up in the professional
  championship contest under the auspices of the Billiards
  Control Club, between M. Inman and T. Reece will be
  decided in the week commencing April 3. The winner of
  this game will meet H. W. Stevenson (the holder) in the
  challenge round of 18,000 up, which will commence on April
  17th at the Caxton Hall, Westminster.