A Few Random Gleanings

C. Marriette: Guernsey's Amateur Champion.

Master T. Ansell: Erith's Boy Challenger.

• The billiard championship of the Metropolitan Police was won by P.C. Hughes with 750 against 709 by P.C. Leckenby, of the E Division. A portrait of the winner will appear in the next issue of The Billiard Player.
• In the final match for the North Yorkshire and South Durham Constitutional Clubs' Challenge Shields (given by Sir William Gray, Bart.), Middlesbrough, after being nearly 200 in front, won by one point only.
• A. F. Peall has not been beaten during the whole of the season.
• In the sixth test match (at Glasgow) between Smith and Inman the scores at the end of the first week (June 11) stood: Inman, 7,301; Smith, 5,753. Adding to the six test matches the extra week's match won in London by Inman by 8,000 to 7,308, Smith had, up to June 11, scored 92,190 points to 88,607 by Inman, a majority of 3,583.
• In Liverpool, against Inman, on May 27, Smith, in a break of 774, made 633 off the red.
• At Romford A. Ellson, aged 16, allowed 100 in 600 by A. E. Graham, amateur champion of Essex, won by 72.
• The present professional champion (T. Newman) made many hundred breaks before he was 14.
• Pearson's Weekly is publishing a Billiards Guide which takes up frequently-recurring sentences in billiard reports and interprets and diagrammatically illustrates them. Here are some of the sentences dealt with: "Potted the white and left a double baulk"; "doubled the red"; "a masterly long jenny"; "top-of-the-table position"; "a magnificent screw-back"; "angled and gave a safety miss." To those who are quite beginners at the game this may prove interesting and educative.