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THE WORLD OF BILLIARDS.
(Continued from page 1.) is, so far as the first class players are concerned) is impending. All the front rank men will be thrown back on their all-round resources--the anoner they appre- giate that fact the batter for them all. No disrespect nor slight is intended to Gray. The change" is being brought about by the natural course of events. That rapidly riding young man, Willie Smith, came to tais conclusion some time ago, and he has accom- plished 'much in the way of fitting himself to the requirements of the open scoring gathe. He is in com- pany with Tommy Newman, one of the new-found-outs of the past senson, and no mention of it can be complete without their names cropping up. Such as Falkiner
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WEATHER REPORT.
On the 7th at 18.30-Black East Drum bolsted.
On the 8th at 1155-Pressure has in- orenved considerably over N. Japan, the northern depreceion having passed into the
Paoifio. One osatre of the typhoon entered the coast to the South of Amoy this morning moving westward. The movements of the second are uncertain: the two may have merged into one again.
As the barometer is now not falling at Hongkong, the probability is that the
inst Java, Bugar & Gen--J. C. certain. J.L...
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daly edified to and that he is all I had imagined him to be. And you may be sure that I bad. pictared him as somebody extra special and on improved-out-of-instead of 7.15 am. until further notice. all-knowledge player since he was
Mail for Canton per a... Kinahan will meraly a red ball operator, be closed at 5 p.m. to-day instiad of at 8 although one of the very best .... possible. I have 8090 the young man opposed to the best man in the first-class listin Melbourne Ieman. Is is a plea- The Felching with the Mail from Lan- sure to be able to say that he don (via siberia) of Saturday, the 20th Haldes, Norw... 1,065, J. Jorgensen, 8th typhoon is filling up. But this is notyet
ult, is due to arrive here on Saturday, abapes as B most promising the 11th just. candidate of the future for cham pionship honours. I don't know how he has managed it, or whether he was not quite "all out" during bia tournament tussles down South in the 1912 13 season, but the way he has quickened up his! game, and the superior quality of his billiarde, are really beyond expectations. A keen-eyed, rapid scorer," one of the beat single- stroke players I have known, and Japan using the one nearly equally well Straits,
makes those out-red winnere at the head of the table), Smith is a professional billiard player of no small importance, believe me.
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and Poull have left more than sin either band (how well belgtits, Caylon, India vin Bombay-Por/ Mfuck, Ger. a. 4.019, Loewe, 8th inst
A Good Game,
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TO-MORROW."
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9th July, 9 a..
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passing record of their achieve ments with a promise of more to come. The new blood has welled up more strongly in 1913-14 than ever before. It was wantad.
Inman and he are putting up a The Change that is Coming. As an indication of which way game that is good to see. They the wind blows the following are both in earnest, and throwing Shanghai.& North Chlon-For MARK, extraote from a letter by a Black- no chances away. Smith soon bara correspondent may not be showed his hand, and what his Straits, Samaraox & Sourabaya--Per out of place. He rofore to the intentions were. He never missed and Bangkok-Per SAMSEN, coming alteration in the rules an opportunity of closing up the
& Haiphong Por which I have made mention of game when he was not a busy Helbow, on several occasions lately. He scorer, Realising the situation, says, “You must first of all put laman was with him, and the all the strokes on an equality, upshot is a minor adition of the After that is done, there will not | Championship. The Darlington need to be the troublesome, cum- celebrity has evidently come bersome task of having to count. Sooth in the hope of further Straits, India via Caloutta-Por A. 25 strokes. I will be bound that ny of the strokei conld be made workable.
Can you say, or anyone else, what the differ
a losing hazard once is in off the white and a loser off the red. Yet one counts two sad the other three points for one and the same stroke. This being so, has not the red-ball expert nearly one third lean strokes to make for his points up? The same would apply to the novice and 100 apper; and, if anything, he would get the advantage, because there is nearly always a time-limit in claded along with the points up. The more I think of it, the more I am convinced that a
distinguishing hia
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To make connection with the Tientsin-
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Formosa via Keelung, Japan brilliant record. It is trying
via Mojl, Victoria & Tar bim pretty highly with such a
coma-OHICAGO MARU, 9th inat., 3 p.m. post master of match tactica and each a etayer as luman. But it Shanghai & N. China--Per AHUI, DON
July.3 p.m. is out of each experiences that the younger hand gain their pro- ficiency certificates. They have to rough it before they pasa through to the topmost positions. Pukow Ballway, closing at Shanghai Br. There is an air of keenness about P. O, si 11.30 s.m. on Monday, the 13th the match that gives you a thrill July.) of satisfaction. Judging by form, Shanghai & North China--Per KWONG. you can make out Smith to be at least the equal of anyone, excepting, of course, Toman. Through Newman, we can place him very high up the ladder, and I do not doubt that he will justify
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FRIDAY, 10th July.
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change in the scoring will have to himself and this good opinion Swatow, Amoy and Fooshow--Per HAI.tong.,Mrs Tun Ah Nat, Sin Jit Choy.
We
come sooner or later. -. are out to stop the one-ball player, but first of all give each atroke its aquality with its multiple of the stroke. I have a friend up here in North East Lancashire) who haa oopied Gray's losing hazard since he first saw him at Accring ton. I have known him to make 50 and 60 off the red after losing the white. What chance has the ordinary 100-upper against this? A Lover of the Game," I can only say, while referring this note to the billiard pablic and the legislators of the game, that I wish it had come earlier on. Then I could have discussed it, some thing that circumstances do not ut present permit.
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For the Third Time. Just now I have to compress and get on to less abstruse mat- ters. There is the third match between Gray and Newman proceeding at the Holborn Hall, London, This, Lehould say, will be won by young Newman, who is too good a player to be taking a start from say but the top notohers and Smith. Mention of the Darlington phenomenon reminds me that I have had the pleasure of running my eyes over his playing pointa again. I was
before the game finishes.
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