A YOUTHFUL CHAMPION. GEORGE GRAY ON BILLIARDS,
In the billiard world the hero of the day is George Gray, the young Australian. For a considerable time accounts had reached this
cantry fran Australia of his wonderful deings, į but there was a disposition to discount these it some quarters on the ground that stories from a distance, are somewhat grow on the way. But he has been in Ragland now for ptables
apt to
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5TH, 1910.
LABUAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LTD.
The Labuse Steamship Co., Ltd., was re- gistered on the 19th ult. with a nominal capital of $50,000. The shors have been taken up by private subscriptions. The directors are: Messrs. C. Held (chairman), A. Kitabing and U. E. Giovannoni. Mr. C. Held will take over the secretaryship, and the registered oflce will be at 32, Winchester House, London. The objects of the company are to open a local trade in Brunei Bay and around Labuan, und the stoataer Karang Las boon bought for that
Bore wooks, and playing on champion-lip purpos. Later on, it is intended to have
eulablished at loss: two world's records. four weeks, in the course of the games he played in Leads, Hull, Blackpool, and Bradford, fus made breaks of 985; 881.833, 713, and 692, to may nolling of a 1rge mumber of snailor breaks, an achievement that is unparalleled in Aho case of a player of any age-marvellous in this quiet-incing, modest youth, hardly in hin nineteenth year.
In one respect he possesses amtural advantage
another steamer built in addition The Karang has lately been thoroughly repaired and decked, She is fitted out with all facilities of taking oarge and leazer for Brunei and Labuan probably on the 29th inst. under the command of Capt. John Medley.
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he breaks down just as a long series the case of deserved exemplary pauishmont, and sentenced Centrifugal Pump with Pulleys and Flanged Steel Piping.
are
the accused to four years' rigorous imprison." wahl.
The charge was that Spaldiar. between the 20than the 20th April, 1910, at Madras, being the agent of the above Company and bolag in such capacity entrusted with property, commit fod criminal breach of trast in respect of R78,213 by dishonestly paying it to one Nawaji Abdulla Sahib in violation of the legal contrast entered into by him with the Insurance Company..
BARCLAY,
of favourite servant. be in pro Get In strokes seems to
prospect. yonuz Gray an air of do:qshment, almost of alance, sits easily on him and suggests matting in the nature of affectation.
11. method of scoring has been the subject of with discussion. It is said that it is wanti..4 in variety an
with that Troty da corepared of a you like Stoyouson or Inman, who relies maints on what is known as the top of the table gama. No one suggests that Gray does nol play in striel mucordance with the schopted rales. The impression has got abrand, however, that the red losing hazard into the raddle pocket, which is his great favourite, will have to go the way of the once famous "spot stroke" and that aine-days' wonder theweber shot, which soon proved a weariness ovon to keen billiardists. A representative of a London paper recently had. aalat with George Gray and asked him ques- tions on this and a variety of ellier subjects.
ONE BHOT HAMÍR P
'પ્રભુ', "Some people, I love, in ander the impressionant play only one shot time after time, going into un of the side pockets with the aus ball and hitting the rod ballin encha way that it returns oxsetly to its starting point, so that I can bogia all over again. I only wish I could It would usko things extrembly onsy. What I nim ut in to bring the red into the raiddle of the inble about midway between the mildio spot and the- baulk apot. But, try àë I will. I nuut g
t get it exactly as I want it, and in course of time it
me нoveskors becomes
for wo tr make a long losing hazard into one of the top corner pockete lotting the red ball strike three cushions and come into position ones or inst below the contre of the table. It is true that I often leave the white balt severely alone oven. When it is out of bank for a considerable time. That hal, however, is safni-one-for me to fall back on whenever I hara lost position for one of my losing hazards and want to regain it. I it in remorse, in fact, much ni a brálgo- keep player keeps a strong eard of re-entry who ho
playing to trumps,
I adopt my method of scoring because it pays to do so. You must remember that i kring hazard off the red counts throw, whereas a white lesing hazard or a caution coats only two. The losing hazard off the red is therefore thore then thirly per cent, better than either of the other two skola. Playing as I do, I score morg points and I score more rapidly. As long as I om going I can run up a hundred poiss every soren or eight minutes. To compare such scor -ing as mine will that which is obtained by the discarded spot stroko is, I think, absurd. In spot stroko you lavi only sever possibio varieties, to
ake ny losing hazards there are probably a theusand and even carioties. In fact I very sel.. dom get two shots exactly alike in one day's play. Whethor other players will adopt my strate.y I cannot, of cams, teil, Int I believe that after playing the top of the table game for yours they would have do practise the red ball game for a good many years before it would bo worth their While to rely on it.. I have been practising it for years, for the most part for ten or twelve hours a day.
"People are apt to think that professional billiard playing is mert amusement. I can nssure you it is nothing of the kind. You have
to work hard with your brain as well as with your bands and arms. The strain of making
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very hardest all through or you will not keep it
np no matter how good a player you may be. Peoplo tell me that I go on secring so long that they wonder I ever break down."
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From December th to 11th, 1910.
*EJIE WITEL.
Ioncke:
Of course I break down Everybody doos at some time or other. The human body is a machine which will not go at its best for over any more than an ordinary mechanical machine, which wants oiling from time to time. Above all que must have constant practice, When I arrivod in England I had been six weeks board ship where, of course, there was no bil liard table. 1 came over here ten weeks before the beginning of any engagement expressly for the purpose of practising. If I wore to leave of practice for a week it would take me a fort.
ight to get into practice gain," Although George Gray, like all profes- sional
fools little pleasure por playors, sonally
the gase he is great believer in what King James T. called the clean and ingonions game of billiards" for the ordinary person's recreation. As to his habits, ho states: "I haro uover in my life tasted wice or boor or anything with alcohol in it. Nor do 1 smoko. Abstemiousness is absolutely essential to anyone who wants to real in so delicate on art as that of handling the billiard, balls. I am delighted to see that of late a number of temperanes billiard hails have been started. This should tead is a great mousure to make the pastime more popular."
EALLY BEGINNINGS. Gray does not volunteer much porte
porionalinforma tion about himself, but on being proared befavour. Tu ad his visitor with some particulars. "I was Wed. born," he said, "on the 19th of March, 1892, si Albert Park, Melbourne, and my father, who is here with me in England at the present moment, was formerly the native professional champion billiard player of Australia. So you see I heard a good deal about billiard-plying from my sar- liest youth. But I did not begin playing until I was twelve or thirteen years of age, Then I sustained a compound factors of the left arm through a fail while jumping in the park, and as soon as it was set, as the arm was still rather stiff, the docto- recommended me to play billiards. That is how I began. I prsetised practised, and by and by I bap
began to give exhibition mat- ches. As I was under sixteen years of age there www some difficulty in the matter, as in some of the Australian States youths are not allowed to Barometer ...... play in public billiard rooms until they are over Temperature.... mixteen. Eventually, in my case, a special pex-Wind Direction
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mit was obtained at each of the different places at which I fulfilled engagements. This season my engagements would not permit me to enter for the championship. This disability will not apply next year, but it is not yet decided whe ther I shall then enter or not.”
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6700
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5
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6700 May
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