Motor Trade v. Press at Billiards

On July 11, at Burroughes Hall, an interesting team match was played between representatives of the motoring trade and or the press. It was suggested by Mr. Yarworth Jones, of the Victor Tyre Company, and the contestants were as follow:—Messrs. J. S. Stafford, Edgar de Normanville, and Berkeley Ormerod, selected by Mr. Yarworth Jones, and Messrs. C. V. Diehl, S. Felsted, and A. Ornstein, selected by the editor of The Sporting Life to represent the Press.

The result was as below:—

It will be seen that it was largely the unexpectedly weak play, owing to indisposition, of Mr. Diehl—ordinarily a fine amateur billiardist—that lost the game to the Press.

Upon the Editor of The Sporting Life devolved the duty of presenting the handsome cups to the winning team. He congratulated them most heartily on their success, though he had a shrewd idea that but for the indisposition of the leading member of his team they would just have scraped home, Still, that was the fortune of war, and he accepted the defeat in the same sporting spirit as he felt sure Mr. Yarworth Jones would have done had the positions been reversed.

Considerable applause was created when Mr. Smith smilingly challenged Mr. Jones to another match, which he hoped would provide the same excellent sport as had been witnessed that day.

After the recipients of the cups had acknowledged the kindness of the donor, Mr. Yarworth Jones gave evidence of his finely-tempered sporting instincts by remarking that he was of opinion that the best team of the day had lost. So convinced was he (the speaker) of this that, subject to acceptance, by Messrs. Felsted and Ornstein, he would esteem it a great privilege to present cups similar in manufacture to those that stood before them to the two winning members of the Press team.