To the Editor.
My letter which you inserted in your last issue only partly conveys my meaning. There are three points which I am greatly interested in at the present moment, and I should like to hear other opinions thereon. My first is that the rules should bar nothing except the push. My second is (as was mentioned in my last letter) that the red ball and the white should change values.
My opinion is that the red, having no penalty when potted, should represent the minor score, viz., two points. The white when potted is dead to the player, so that the object white has a limited life. This is my strong point in favour of making the white count more than the red, instead of less, as it does now.
I agree that this would mean a vast change to the game.
Well, the rules of late have had a lot of altering, but, under the present different rules, the game is still not perfect.
My third point is of rather a personal character, as it concerns my colleagues as well. We markers, under the Billiards Control Club Rules, are in rather a delicate position, as we have to claim all fouls on our own authority and at times our only support is the rules.
GEO. CLARKE,
Head Marker, Junior Carlton Club.
January 4, 1913.