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BY AN OLD FOGEY.
THE FASCINATION OF BILLIARDO,
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game. Billards, I think, exercises a fascination kind: The amateur as a role is a poor judge of POWELL'S GRAND XMAS SHOW. greater than any game ever invented. I was the pace at which a ball will travel and of playing the other day at my club, and the where it will go, with the result that he creates steward, gaite a veteran now but a grest pro- differlties by forcing the balls into most awk
7ÓU WISH TO SELECT A PRESENT, VERY WELL JUST LOOK BELOW:— fessional is his heyday, told me a strange life ward angles, and by scattering them all over the
DOLLS THAT SLEEP AND TALK, KID DOLLS, RAG DOLLS, STONE AND story. He was destined to be a working jeweller tablo. Very rarely indeed ona na umeteur play Of course, it would be exceedingly difficult to and served his indentures in the City of Louden, the aunon and winning hazard gene at the WAX DOLLS, ROCKING HORSES, BICYCLE HORSES, PRAMS, MAIL CANTS. provo such a statement, but it seems to me that Bat he was also a private in the Middlesex top of the table; and by thess means all the WOOD HORSES, SOLDIERS, CANNONS, AIRGUNS, SWORDS, PISTOLS, more people enjoy billiards than any other game Volunteers, nud at their drill-ball there was a great breaks of the day are amassed. By DOLLS' HOUSES, BEDS, FURNITURE, KITCHEN SETS, TRUMPETS, PLANOS, If we reckon this faculty of onjoyment as efer-billiard table. There he used to see other mem-wonderfully quick execution Stevenson will roll CLOCK-WORK TRAINS, COBONATION PROCESSIONS, NAVAL REVIEWS. eised by sotive participation in the pasting. It bors of the corps playing pyramids. The spirit near the spot. He thinks saven minutes DONKEYS, MONKEYS, CAMELS, DOGS, GOATS, RABBITS, AND ALL KINDS is comparatively rare that I find a man who of the game entered into him, and possessed his long time for such a break! Now, Mr. 8. 8. OF ANIMALS. either does not handle a one or has not knocked coal. Be felt that ho could play pyramids Christoy is the only entrant for the amateur the balls about during his youth. Sir William When he tried be was andeceived, but he per- championship with ability to show good top of BARROWS, RACE GAMES, BRICKS, DRUMS, MUSICAL TOYS, STABLES, Harcourt once desfared that we ware all more or severed, and was soon the inequalled "potter the table play and yet Stevenson would give ENGINES, FORTS, TENTS, FROG GAME, BOXES OF TOOLS AND TRICKS, lers Socialists, With greater truth be might of the regiment. He became a great player at him points at the rate of 50 in a 100. The TOPS, A.B.C. BLOCKS, TABLE GOLF. bars aswerted that we were all more or less bil. the all-round game, and so adept at pyramide average man is outclassed by the billiards liard-players: And, indeed, I know of nu game that it was not uncommon for him to "pot" all expert. But he should consolə himself with the that can exercise a greater fascination on mere the red pyramid balls at one break! Indeed, at reflection that he has other cuties in life than CALL AND SEE THEM !! .msu. The game in itself always looks pretty; this form of cus cleverness he became a rival of to play on the board of green cloth, fascinating
hralling as it is. it appeals to the eye. How sweetly refreshing is eld John Roberts, and ultimately a celebrated and
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pastures of spring, of the level mind where the stumps are driven in, and of. our sequestered comping ground in the summer when we pitch our tente for life in the open-air. A good bil liard-cloth looks lovely. It is, magnetising 10 the mind and restful to the are. Anyone with an elementary knowledge of colour will tell you that green and red are complimentery colours. They are almost necessary to each other, The red ball always looks alluring. The next time you see a party of friends playing pool or snooker just glance at the many tinted balls, and sea if there is ono se warm, so cheerful, und so cap-
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THE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. Is it then any wonder that billiards is played by millions of people And quite possibly they not win the premiership, but I am quite man who makes big two-break, as one of our club members says, derivos as much fan from bis knock-up with a chain as a dest-class artist does from his compilation of 200 Bat so far as I can see there never has been, and there never
a few weeks ago. as the Albion, Derby County, and Bary are all playing a superb game. Of course, there may be a surprise. There is ample time for this, and I should not be astounded if
Provision und Coal Merchants, Suiltivating us that which is dyed carmine, or some Amateur Championship of Great Britain, which | avoiding the two nethermost positions in the
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not refer to it as spotless--is again another con trust which appeals to the eye of anyone with How noiselessly on artistic temperament. these polished ivory, balls steal over the green expanse and perform such feats at the bidding of the ene, that ons could almost think these Hittle playthings were sentient toys. Really billiards has a most westhetic side, and to me the game always teems so dainty, so delicate, with implements so light, and with science so bewitching, that I cannot understand why ladies are not greater patrons of this recreation. I
sideration. They hare not a brilliant eleven, will be say comparison between the degron of Shofield Wednesday had to be taken inte con- skill possessed by amateurs and the professionals but a sound team in every direction. A mat at this monarch of table games. Probably this er, however, which is already onusing much was never more forcibly illustrated thai in the anxiety and heart-burning is the trouble of
he been recently decided. I read the reports League table, for this brings a docline and a of the whole of this contest extending over ten fall into the Second Division, Beyond all days, and I must say the play seemed very dis doubt Bolton Wanderers cannot escape. This appointing. There was little to make a mint is a bold assertion, but a combination which enthuse, although in the final heat betweeg Mr. has not won a single match ont of ten at- AW, T. Good, of London, the holder of the templs, and possesses only two points is fast championship, and Mr. A. J. Browne, the redemption. They have handicapped them. former, the is a licensed victualler, made a very selv a by giving away a start to their rivals. fine break of 155. He put the object white. I regret to say so, but I can see un kope, and ball in the pocket with his first shot, and so was left with only the red bell to play it.to descend to a lower class. If they do escape, So splendid was his losing hazard striking that a fest in the untnre of a miracle will be naces he made 51 shots of this description. His siry Grimsby are certainly better off thay "in-offs," to use a billiard-room colloquialism. Bolton, but I cannot soe bow the Lincolnshire were made into the two top and the middle club can hope to rias superior to Blackbura
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am sure that our fair friends take up many sports and pursuits far less suitable.I am quite at one with Major Broadfoot, who in the invites the attention of Isdies to the suitability middle and top pocket. If one plays a loser a most disastrous time this autumn, but it of billiards. I like the way Major Brandfoot from a natural angle into the top pocket, with a should not be overlooked that their players have puts the case in a few words, thus:- The game perfect half ball stroke, and with the sanot been the victims of many accidents, that Cromp affords interest and exercies without andns strength, the red ball will taugh three cushions fatigue, whilst the attitudes, when correct, and leave itself over the middle holes. These must of necessity be graceful. No game or of course, tau be made in the same way, but in pastime sets off a good figure to greater ad. spotting for the middle pocket losing hazard vantage, whilst the delicacy of touch which always arrange for the half back stroke without ladies possess is most valuable and leade to good side. By this means the red object ball is driven scores. It must, however, be recollected that is right up the table and rebounds off the top KEW all cases practico and play must be abordi. cushion so that it again leaves position. The nate to more important matters. Work and two shots by which Mr. Browne made his break duty come frat-play afterwards." To all of are easily within the reportoire of or hoary ama tance, but these generally play these simple which I offer a respectful Hear, hear," be-hazards with so much side on their own ball that cause the fascination of billiards is so powerful that one may be tempted to regleot, the sterner they make difficulties, and seldom leave the red in position. I know no better practice for an duties of life for its calm joy.
amateur than the one ball game of this kind, and having once mastered the half back losing hazard It may be thought that I have been guilty with the requisite strength he will fled his game of the sin of exaggeration us to the spell which vastly improved. Amateurs have a great fault billiards can throw over even the strongest mas- of playing with too much “* side.” For instancs culine temperaments. But let me give you a | take what is known ass "jonny” in the middle, few examples which are not hearsay, but of men pocket. Nine amateurs out of ten play short. who have come under my own observation.jennies" into the middle with an abundanes Take my good friend H. W. Stevenson, the of "side" instead of making it an ordinary present champion of the Billiards Association. half-ball strike. Play such a shot twenty times Now he saw a table for the first time when he was with "side," and twenty times without by tho about ten years of age, and he was so mesmerised half-bali, and depend upon it the latter will by it that to use his own words he used to oftonerprosesascessful. Ordinary oasists forget ** sneak into the room" and play surreptitiously that the patting on of side makes them less Now the great point in Mr. Good's whenever he could. Nothing could induce him accurate. to take up a commercial onerer, and when he break was to say tuind precision and the pace
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was fourteen he began to play regularly, when he was seventeen by could make one hundred off the balls at one attempt. He has never been able to escape from this atmosphere, until now The ene that be clatches seams part of himself,
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Now take the cars of twa of the youngest losing hazards off the red ball in a break of players of the day-Willis Cooke and Tom $14, and that Charles Dawson has compiled 279 Reeco. Young Cooke is the son of the ex-by the same stroke. Again, 168 is the highest oharapion, William Cooke, the great rival of break ever made by se amateur in a champion- John Roberts, senior and junior. He was ship matok. What is this compared with the brought up at a boarding school at Forest record of 722 by Dawson under the revised Hill, near London, and his father was most rules, and the 649 which Steveneen reeled off autions that his sun should not follow in his in at the very beginning of his match for footsteps, and that he should not play billiards. championship honours with Diggle on April 2 Mr. Cooke destined his son for business in the 1900 These facts show the great gulf between City: The youth was engaged in commerce and professionals and azuateurs. But there is a still In banking, but he never liked either of them. more telling method of comparison. For in- He had een billiards, and he wanted to play. stance, when Mr. Good won the championship The desires of his father and the claims of restricted to amateurs the other day his average Ai Shipping and General Office Work. business were nothing to him. What is the
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