Jottings of the Month

• The three billiard markers who, during the season, send up to the Billiards Control Club, Great Windmill Street, W.C., the largest number of amateur handicap cards, will receive handsome money prizes. At the same time, the names of competing markers will be registered at the B.C.C. in view of possible changes of situation. Fuller particulars may be obtained in reply to letters addressed to the Secretary of the Billiards Control' Club.
• In addition to inter-club billiards and snooker championship, inter-hospital championships, club championship, and handicap's for members, a Lords v. Commons match may be decided at the B.C.C. headquarters during the season now opening.
• Charles Dawson will be taking a turn at the table again this season.
• Reece is accepting 2,000 start in 18,000 with bonzoline balls- from George Gray, to whom Stevenson is said to be willing to concede the same start with ivories.
• The suggestion is being made that more collections on behalf of local charities should be taken at League matches.
• Aiken is expected home from Australia about the middle of October.
• The Preliminary Professional Tournament at Burroughes Hall, now in progress, has a geographical as well as sporting interest. Many counties from far and near are represented.
• As very tangible products of the encouragement that has been given to young players during the past two or three years at Burroughes Hall, Soho Square, may be mentioned Newman, Smith, Peall, and Falkiner.
• Falkiner is clearly not one of the young professionals to whom even such a player as Reece can afford to give long starts. The result was: Falkiner (rec. 8,000), 30,000; Reece, 25,629.
• Billiard Leagues are getting into action throughout the country for the coming season's encounters.
• Stevenson and Harverson are matched to play 20,000 up at Leicester Square for £100 a side, Harverson receiving 2,500 start.
• Playing Pindar at Leeds, Newman conceded 1,000 in 7,500 and won by nearly another thousand. One day he scored his 1,250 in 15 hands.
• F. Smith, the Australian professional, is stated to have scored 145 (out of the possible 147) points at snooker recently, including a break of 89.
• Two of Falkiner's breaks against Reece were 347 and 413 (his records), but Reece between these put up the extraordinary world's record for ivory balls of a 675 and 618 break, completed in the same session.
• During Newman's recent short season at Leeds there were amateur break competitions after each session from a set position. He also made a 320 break in the course of the match. Later in the month Newman did still better, by exceeding the 500 (with 596, against both J. C. Bailey and F. W. Hughes) on two occasions in one week. His previous best was 498.
• Stevenson and Reece are to meet at Leicester Square on October 20 in 18,000 up (Reece receives 1,000) for £100 a side.
• The death of a billiard marker at the Stirling Castle Hotel, London Wall, was attributed indirectly to the exertion of constantly walking round the table. On the other hand, scores of thousands of people owe their better health to the same exercise.
• The "shop assistants' champion" of the United Kingdom is said to be Mr. W. B. Mulligan, who has just received a presentation on leaving Blackburn for Bootle.
• A match for the boy amateur championship of London is to be played between Fraser Farrar, of Wandsworth, and J. J. Ashley, of Camberwell.
• Inman, who has been touring in Canada, is challenging Hoppe, the American champion, to "world's championship" matches, to be played in New York, London, and Paris, under a compromise set of conditions intended to provide for pocket, baulk-line, and cannon billiards.
• George Gray is in England once more, accompanied this time by both his father and his mother. He will play, as hitherto, under his father's management, and the Grays, who are furthermore accompanied by two sisters and the brother of George, now intend to make England their home.
• The amateur championship record break of the world is that by Mr. G. B. Shailer, who is a member of the police force at North Sydney, in New South Wales. He is also the new holder of the amateur championships for New South Wales and Australia, the latter with 2,000 to Kidston's 1,433.
• Alec Taylor, the Leeds professional, after touring most of the world, is now in Australia, and expects to "be in this country next summer and then to go to Canada—the only part yet unvisited by him.
• Harverson is continuing his touring (which was so successful last year) of clubs in various parts of the country for exhibition purposes.
• A match in which great interest was taken was that at Burroughes Hall, Soho Square, between G. Clarke (head marker, Junior Carlton Club) and F. Cox (head marker, Wellington Club), in which Cox received 500 and was beaten by 3,600 to 3,277.
• Lindrum just managed to defeat Aiken in Melbourne on August 16, by 16,000 to 15,857. He made a 555 break.