Here and There Notes
- Davis made his record break (495) against Tothill at
Manchester on April 19.
- Leading second-class professionals will be invited by
Messrs. Burroughes & Watts to measure cues in a
preliminary tournament next season.
- Conceded 300 in 500 by Reece at the Victoria Club
on April 22, Mr. S. H. Fry won by 281, so that he only
made 19 fewer points than Reece.
- As a mark of sympathy with him in his protracted
illness, a cheque for £562 13s. 9d. was, on May 9,
handed to Bert Elphick from his many billiard friends.
- In The Sports Post, Leeds, George Nelson, the ex-Yorkshire professional champion, says that before
Smith met Stevenson in the Professional Tournament
he told him (Nelson) that he meant to set about him
because of the way in which he had been treated by
Stevenson in recent years.
- Neither Smith nor Inman agrees with Mr. S. H. Fry
as to golf being a more exacting game, mentally, than
billiards. "No comparison; much more to think about
at billiards," says Smith. "I should like to see what
Mr. Fry would do with some of my safety play without
plenty of brain use," says Inman.
- Mrs. Eddowes, Mrs. Le Marchant, and Mrs. MacDougall, who all won their games in the billiard match
between the Forum Club and Mr. Saunders's team from
the R.A.C., are said (according to the writer of the
Sports Gossip in The Evening News) to be the leading
women billiard players of London, and are all keen
students of the game.
- Leaving the "Briton" on May 16, Falkiner will
stay a few days in Capetown, and then work his way upcountry by easy stages to Johannesburg, where he will
meet Harverson on June 20 and later. He will
afterwards visit Pretoria, Natal, Wynberg, Bloemfontein,
etc., and reach home about the middle of September
By the way, Harverson is said to have discovered a very
promising South African amateur named Erasmus.
- The Automobile Club Spring Billiards Tournament
was won by Mr. S. M. Poland (scratch) against Mr. J.
Gorry (plus 15).The amateur championship of Cambridgeshire was won by Mr. H. W. Howell against Mr.
A. Beedom, and that of West Cumberland by Mr. M.
Foley against Mr. J. Mackie.Mr. P. Eastwood won
the Leeds Amateur Championship against Mr. A. L.
Bray; Mr. N. Yates that of Barnsley against Mr. F.
Bartle; and Mr. H. W. Holden that of Darwen.
- Newman being prevented by illness from playing in
the concluding heat of the Burroughes & Watts Professional Tournament (as advertised on the front cover
page of this issue), the first prize of £200 has been
awarded to Smith and the second prize of £50 to
Newman. In lieu of the tournament heat a match of
8,000 up is being played at Burroughes Hall by Smith
and Inman.