Four sessions of very agreeable play were witnessed in the middle of May at the Leicester Square Hall, when Miss Ruby Roberts, of Australia, met and somewhat easily defeated Madame Strebor (who is not new to public metropolitan play) in games of 400 up.
Miss Roberts plays with greater confidence and sang froid than Madame Strebor, and she also plays gracefully (as Madame Strebor does) and with admirable delivery of the cue. Madame Strebor, probably, knows a great deal more about the game than Miss Roberts, but is heavily handicapped by a rather nervous retarding of the cue in its swing, and a resultant somewhat prodding action. If Madame Strebor were to eliminate this feature from her strokes and bring the cue nicely back and well through the ball every time, her play, in the opinion of The Billiard Monthly, would be improved by 25 in the 100.
Miss Ruby Roberts was seen to particularly fine advantage in the opening session, when she made a very pretty and correct break of over 60. Each lady was somewhat opportunist at times, but displayed on other occasions excellent capacity in the essential matter of ball control.