A CAPITAL match took place at Mr. Miles's Park Hotel, Victoria Park, on the occasion of the opening of a new billiard-room. Notwithstanding the severe weather the room was very well filled, and the arrangements for the comfort of the spectators admirable. The evening's entertainment commenced with a match at billiards of 750 up, Cook giving Stanley 180 points.
The play was very fine on both sides, the breaks being large and frequent. In fact, so quick was the game that a long account of it is simply impossible; suffice it to say that Cook, by means of breaks of 154, 110, 194, and 158, won the game by fourteen points; Stanley having scored breaks of 137, 88, 60, 50, 52, and 43.
After the well-merited applause that naturally followed play so brilliant had ceased, and an interval for refreshments had taken place, a match, the best of nine games of pyramids, followed, which resulted in a victory for Stanley, he winning five games to Cook's two, but then the latter gave him a ball. In one of the games Cook made a good break of 10 balls in succession, and in another game made another of 8. Stanley's best break was 8.