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 cueist—George Nelson—is 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 time—something 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.