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THE ART OF BILLIARDS.
Impressions of the Stevenson-
Gray Match.
It would need the brush of a famous hus pressionist to make a picture of the scene of a great billiard match, sa curious are the effects that come from sharp contrasts of
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himself in the all-round gains. He would hesitate, drom with bid'alima lingers on his knee; or rest the tips of them upon the table while he gazed at the balls. Then he would change his mind several times about the shot, bobbing up and down before Enally getting into position, with kis chin almost reating on his cus. Several times-half a dozen, perhaps he got the
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The Standard. Cariere could have done pocket game; but though he played it it has done. it. I believe, or something with less hesitation than his all-round very similar the auditorium of a theatre, ahots, he did not show the skill that with the light coming only from the stage. be displayed last season. Though no sign But the effects obtained in the Holborn of t showed in his face, he seemed to be Hal, where Stevenson and Gray are play-nervous; his strength was not perfect: ing, are more striking," more weird, more the red ball did not come back again with! stimulating the imagination than any the necessary exactness; and once, when that have been soon in a theatra.
the last chance of the afternoon was at Imaging a splash of vivid green-lit with stake, it rolled into baalk.. intonso light, which comes from no visible source-floating upon an inky sea of gloom,
To me Gray's game, though it included many brilliant shots, did not seem to be
cialists in the Manufacturo of [AILWAY ROLLING STOCK of every description There is no horizon to this marky ocnan in the mamo cless sa Stevenson's; there
Pioneers in the design shd manufacture, or
It is lost in dark clouds backed up on everywas not the same finish or certainty about side. One gets the impression of bound. Fit; and there was no artistay or inspira- less, impenetrable spacs. From the surface tion. Bat, then, I cannot prétend, to of the sea thers risas a gray vapour which know anything about billiards. I can only mounts into the dome of the sky, above speak as one of the ansuthoritative crowd. the patch of light; and swimming in the
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banked-up clouds are ghostly shapes in aumemble. One can sou faces, blurred and featureless, bat horribly distinct. They away gently to and fio, as if stirred by the wind or the lide. There are on bodies to the faces. A confused mass of Bound rolls op from the ocean-a 'deep rear, now faint, now formidable, as of surf | ndulj se is containe no narcotio. For exle breaking on a shore; strange hootings, like by nil Obama od Borshopdra
the cries of night birds, and now and again
a sharp rattle sa of thunder.
So the green billiard table, bathed in
light; the banks of spectators, sitting in
the deep shadow, with the rook of their burning tobacco helping the glosni to hide walls and calling; the roar and rattle and scream of the traffic outside. The playors too, as they stand within the glare of the table, produse the curious effect which has been cleverly utilised by poster artists. One does just their faces, their hands, portions of white shirt fronts, a length of watch chain; all else is lost in the black back-ground.
||| TEM DILLLAND PLAYER'S TEMPERAMENT,
Temperament, I take it, plays as bigʻa
136 part in the making of a great billiard
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and both Stevenson and Gray must be andowed with a nervous system peculiarly well adapted to the exercise of their profusion. But, as nothing is perfect in buman nature, there are flaws even in the the game would not be worth, stching if SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES temperament of a champion cuoist. Forhaps THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE
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Stevenson's artistic sul hates the com mon place, the monotonous that in his wonknesz as a profesional billiard, playe Une afternoon he showed us that he could play Gray'shamard game perhaps better than Gray himself, but the monotony of it seemed to bore him; he appeared to lose patience with tas sameness of it, and dashed of, after a certain time, into all-round play or back to his top of the table game. In the same way, after he has made a certain pum her of paints, he gets careless-sick, sa it were, of going on wit's an azeroing that is so ridiculously easy, fo, when one has the Impression that he cannot break down, he missce what is for him an easy shot.
Gray, on the other hand, is nervous a not unnatural falling considering his almost extend youth. He was ever curtain of
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