There are suggestions in Leeds for municipal golf courses and billiard rooms.
Fred Lindrum, jun., champion of Australia, is said to have made 687 off the red in a private 1,000 up.
It is announced that the temperance billiard rooms in various London districts have proved a success financially.
The Accrington magistrates have renewed licenses for billiard halls on condition that no one under eighteen years of age be allowed to play.
Kalyin Demarest, the American boy champion billiard player, arrived at Plymouth on the liner Nieu Amsterdam on Feb. 8, from New York, en route for Paris.
It is understood that Gray will play three matches at Holborn Hall, London, next month, and that Diggle will be his opponent in at least one of the games.
In an interesting "relay" match, H. W. Stevenson defeated, on the 11th inst., four Newcastle professionals to whom he had conceded varying long starts.
Stevenson is credited with having scored 20 points per minute at one part of his most recent match at Soho Square, and with having made 400 points in 22 minutes on one occasion last season.
Many points in connection with billiards are crying aloud for reform. Why, for instance, should not all pocket openings be standardized in width and otherwise and the hire of all public tables charged for by time?
There has latterly been a little slackening in the George Gray galops away from opponents. At Manchester Diggle during several days drew closely up and was occasionally ahead. Under the conditions this was a great performance.
W. Pindar defeated G. Nelson for the Yorkshire championship by 8,000 to 7,021. The winner was presented with the championship cup, gold medal, and a cheque for 16gs., representing two-thirds of the gate receipts, and Nelson received a cheque for 8gs.
The royal warrant as billiard table makers to the King has been received by Messrs. Burroughes & Watts, Ltd., Soho Square, W., by Messrs. Thurston & Co., Ltd., Leicester Square, W.C., and by Messrs. Orme & Sons, Ltd., Manchester.
An international billiard tournament is in progress in New York. The German champion (Albert Poensgen) is contesting and the French champion (Darantierre) was expected. The American champion at 18.1 and 18.2 billiards (W. Hoppe) is retiring from the profession.
The preliminary heat of 9,000 up in the professional championship contest under the auspices of the Billiards Control Club, between M. Inman and T. Reece will be decided in the week commencing April 3. The winner of this game will meet H. W. Stevenson (the holder) in the challenge round of 18,000 up, which will commence on April 17th at the Caxton Hall, Westminster.