At a meeting of the Council of the Billiards Control Club, the question of the advisability of restricting red-ball play was considered, and the Council came to the conclusion that the time had not yet arrived to make any alterations in the rules.
Those present at the meeting were:—Mr. A. Hatchard (in the chair), Sir John H. Dimsdale, Messrs. J. Godfrey, W. Bessemer-Wright, F. C. Coxhead, Bayly N. Ackroyd, and Alfred J. Peters.
This does not, of course, mean that the question may not at some future date be raised again. But that time will only come when George Gray makes thousand breaks off the red with ivory balls as freely as he used to do with crystalates.
Meanwhile the much more difficult winning hazards from the spot are limited to two. The Billiards Control Club Council cannot be blamed for this, as the limitation is none of their doing, but the anomaly exists and must some day be abolished.
Where there are hundreds of amateurs who can make twenty successive red losing hazards from baulk, we doubt whether there are a dozen in existence who can make the same number of winning hazards from the spot.