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The Billiard Monthly : August, 1911
Jottings of the Month
- The directors of the Temperance Billiard Halls, Ltd.,
announce an interim dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per
annum for the past half-year. - George Nelson considers that George Gray’s 1,032 at
Newcastle was the biggest fluke on record, as, but for a
fluke of the weirdest kind at the very commencement it
would never have been made. - “This is my first visit to Australia,” said Reece on being
welcomed there, “and I like the country so well that I
intend to come again next year, and bring my wife with
me. If she likes it as well as I do we will probably settle
here.” - Cueists in West Cumberland will (says The Whitehaven
News) be interested to hear that George Gray, the young
Australian, whose extraordinary playing has upset many
billiard records, is now staying at Silecroft, where another
good cueistGeorge Nelsonis also in residence. - The Billiard Professionals’ Association has reduced the
age limit of membership from 21 to 18 years of age, and
the annual subscription of country members from 10s. to
5s. per annum, payable in advance, country members being
defined as those living 20 or more miles out of London. - When seen in reference to a challenge issued to him by
Reece, through Mr. George Reid, for a match of 16,000
up on special table, with 3¼ in. pockets (the standard is
3 5/8in.), Lindrum stated that he could not take this up.
“But I am prepared,” he said, “to make an offer on my
side. I will play Mr. Reece 16,000 up on a standard Alcock
table for £100 a-side, and I am prepared to limit the
hazard series to 100 consecutive losers off the red.” - Practising for the Victorian amateur championship, Mr.
C. Von der Luft (who made the highest break in the
championship contest last season) in a genuine match of
1,000 up, made successive breaks of 256 and 138 on Saturday
last. This was on a standard table and with bonzoline
balls and indicates that the amateur talent there is a
trifle “hot.” Both breaks were compiled in irreproachable
style at all parts of the table. - In connection with the recently formed Bournemouth
Liberal Billiard League, Mr. W. W. MacAdam, the president
of the Bournemouth East and Central Clubs has given
the silver cup he promised for the runners-up in the competition.
It is an embossed silver bowl, standing on an
ebony plinth, and valued at ten guineas. It bears the
inscription:” Bournemouth Liberal Billiard League
Trophy. Presented by W. W. MacAdam, Esq., July, 1911.” - In a letter from Capetown, dated June 12, Harverson
says that he had a splendid voyage out from England to
Capetown, where he intended to stay until June 26, when
he would move on to Johannesburg. Here he expected to
have a busy timesomething that could not be said of
Capetown, where things were very quiet in the world of
billiards, though he had a few matches fixed up there. The
people wanted to see him play, but the local amateurs and
professionals were a bit shy of him, even when offered
liberal starts.