May 1, 1911.—Gray resumed his unfinished break of 5,060. The only excitement was at 9 p.m., when he changed from the right-hand pocket to the left.
June 1.—Gray having settled down for a really big break, Stevenson has left for a Continental tour.
August.—During play Gray develops a new stroke, potting both the red ball and his own, and making a cannon simultaneously.
Score: Stevenson 0, Gray 650,000.
Feb. 1912.—Distinct channel now marked by ball passing into middle pocket. Game suspended while a new table is procured.
March, 1913.—Gray reaches his million. He now plays with his eyes shut. Stevenson wires congratulations from Australia.
1980.—Gray receives old-age pension. His son has taken his place in the game, which is still unfinished.
1990.—Gray's grandson breaks down at a red loser in the octillion. Game over. He is immediately challenged by the grandsons of Stevenson, Inman, and Cook.—The World.
The outstanding event of the year 1913, in the world of billiards, has undoubtedly been the new regulation about the losing hazard off the red. Mr. George Gray's (unfinished) break of 10,179 at Leicester in June, on which occasion he occupied the table for three consecutive weeks, and his Opponent felt justified in spending the week-ends in the country, has at last opened the eyes of the authorities. It is not generally known that in the course of this match the right-hand centre pocket had to be three times renewed by a local upholsterer. The stroke was repeated with such perfect precision that, after the first ten days, no objection whatever was raised to spectators placing their hats on the left-hand side of the table, and on one evening towards the close the umpire went so far as to take his tea off it.— Punch.