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.