The General Council of the B.C.C. are entertaining Fred Lindrum, Junr., the Australian professional billiard champion, at a complimentary luncheon to be held on the Club premises on Wednesday, December 13th, at 1 p.m., when the Rt. Hon. Lord Lonsdale will preside, and Spencer Gollan. Esq., will be in the vice-chair.
Mr. G. Herbert Nelson has been appointed temporarily as secretary of the Billiards Control Club up to Christmas on Mr. H. Pritchard resigning and accepting a seat on the General Council.
It will interest many billiard players to hear that a set of rules has been drawn up by the General Council of the Billiards Control Club (and is at present being printed) of the game of Voluntary Snooker Pool. These will be the first official rules of the game published.
The Billiards Control Club is running an Inter-Club Voluntary Snooker Pool Competition, which commences in December, for the B.C.C. Voluntary Snooker Pool Challenge Cup, and the following clubs have entered: Windham Club (present holders of the B.C.C. Inter-Club Billiard Championship Challenge Cup), Royal Automobile Club, National Liberal Club, Isthmian Club, Wellington Club, Constitutional Club, and the Junior Athenaeum Club.
Harverson states through The Sporting Life that it is a mistake to award the palm for making the South African record to Inman. His (Harverson's) own break of 479.
made against Ferraro at Johannesburg in September, is the official record for South Africa, he contends, as it was made on a standard table passed by the B.C.C. whereas his own 400. and Inman's alleged record were not on passed tables.