Jottings of the Month

• The amateur championship of New South Wales has been won by A. G. Fay, who, by the way, equalled Major Fleming's 153 red ball break.
• As W. Smith, of Darlington, will be one of the players in the Soho Square £1,000 tournament during the coming season, reference to his recent doings becomes of current interest. A three days' billiard match between Smith and W. Melrose, of Middlesbrough, concluded at the Castle Hotel, Scarborough, on August 24. Smith conceded 1,000 in a game of 4,000 up, and the final figures were:—Smith 4.000, Melrose 3,630.
• The Otley Bench were invited on August 9 to give their definition as to what constituted a club. It was during the hearing of a case in which Arthur Lewis Burnley was summoned for allowing public billiards at Otley without licence.
• Burnley, it was said, had opened in Otley a billiard saloon with four tables. Being informed that he could not get a licence until the Brewster Sessions in February, he formed what he styled a club, to which persons were admitted to full membership on payment of a penny. In fining Burnley 10s. and costs, the chairman said it must be understood that the place must not be used in that way again. It was stated that the Club would now be properly formed.
• Quite an interesting billiard match took place at the West Ward Club, Hull, on August 13. The contestants were Captain G. Barker and Mr. F. Bellard. Both are old and clever exponents of the game, and the large number present thoroughly enjoyed the game, which was cleverly won on the post by Captain G. Barker. The cup was afterwards presented to the winner.
• On August 14, at the Railway Hotel, Hornsey Rise, Alec Brown defeated E. Hoskins in a level return match by 1,000 to 760. In the previous match at the Tufnell Park Hotel Hoskins, who was winner of the Boy Championship in 1906 and winner of J. P. Mannock's Second Class Professional American Tournament in 1912) won somewhat easily.
• T. Aiken, Scottish champion, and W. Smith, of Darlington, visited Newcastle to play a match on the occasion of the opening of a new saloon at the Collingwood Restaurant.
• A match of 1500 points up, Smith receiving 200 start, was played. Aiken scored breaks of 126, 111, 268, and 156, and the final scores were: Aiken, 1,500; Smith (200), 1,173.
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  Harry Taylor

  A young Leeds player, named Harry Taylor, who has only just reached his fifteenth birthday, is said by the Yorkshire professional, George Nelson, to have already made breaks of 453 and 441 with ivory balls on a standard table. He also ran out with a 300 break recently when playing against the amateur champion, Mr. Virr. Like Gray, his strong feature is red-ball play. He was born at Bradford, but is now resident at Leeds.