Here an There Notes

• The Sydney Evening News, of April 26, said that Walter Lindrum was leaving Sydney on May 1 for Melbourne prior to his departure for South Africa.
• At the St. Catherine's Hotel (Salt Box) Litherland, Liverpool, on June 11, Barney Mulligan, the Bootle professional, gave Mr. Tom Harrison, a good amateur, 150 start in 500 up. The result read: Mulligan, 500; Harrison, 263. Mulligan scored 500 in 63 minutes, and after the game gave a clever entertainment of trick shots.
• Mr. Harry Young says that he saw A. Ellson, a sixteen year-old amateur, opposing the amateur champion of Essex, Mr. A. E. Graham at Romford, where Mr. J. K. Taylor staged a show for the St. Dunstan's Fund. The youth had 100 start in 600 up, which hardly seemed a favourable handicap for a debutant, but he won by 72 points.
• The Billiard Championship of the Army of Occupation, Egypt, was won by Private G. H. Hunt, R.A.S.C., attached General Headquarters, Cairo. The match was played at the Soldiers' Club, Ezbekia Gardens, Cairo, between Sergeant Mitchell, R.A.P.C., and Private Hunt, the winner being presented with a cup and gold medal by Lieutenant-General Sir W. N. Congreve, V.C., K.C.B., M.V.O., Commanding Egyptian Expeditionary Force.
• Considerable interest has been aroused by the matching (as announced in the last issue of The Billiard Player) of Master Cecil Waight (aged twelve years), of Brighton, and Master Ansell (aged fourteen), of Erith, Kent. They are playing for £5, which, with the proceeds of the match, will be handed over to the London General Hospital. Ansell's father is generously defraying the printing account, and the affair comes off at Thurston's on August 10.
• Mr. Max Pemberton, ex-Cambridge University oarsman, golfer, cricketer, lawn tennis, and billiard player, writing in The Daily News on "The Most Difficult Game," differs from Mr. S. H. Fry as regards the greater difficulty of golf as compared with billiards, and says there is much in the contention of the late Dr. W. G. Grace that billiards is by far the most difficult of all games. "When we remember how great a gulf separates the amateur billiard player from the professional, we can appreciate the doctor's assertion," says Mr. Pemberton.
• Whatever may be said of Jack Carr, of Bath, and his wonderful twisting chalk, The Billiard Player finds it hard to believe that there was ever a time when the effects of side upon the billiard table were unknown.
• No ball could have been struck off its centre and propelled against a cushion without the effects of side being perceived. Perhaps Carr studied these effects and worked them into his game, as all good professionals do. Even with flukes, the fluke of to-day, studied and applied, becomes the stroke of to-morrow, and so it may have been, and probably was, with side.
• In a tournament at the "William the Fourth, Streatham," on June 20, on behalf of Mr. Harry Young's Billiard Fund for St. Dunstan's, Mr. S. H. Fry, the amateur champion, opposed Tom Newman, the professional champion, in a match of 600 up, Newman conceding 200 start. The latter was in fine form, and, going out with a break of 135 unfinished, won by 267 points.
• The Bishop of St. Albans circulated, in his diocese a letter in regard to St. Dunstan's, in which his lordship says:—" I am informed that a special effort is being made in clubs possessing billiard tables to raise funds for this deserving object by means of competitions between the members, and I consider this is a method which might be adopted in every Churchman's Club in this diocese."
• A recently-published billiards patent is that by S. E. P. Overend and S. Sutcliffe, Accrington, of a pocket for billiard tables which receives the balls (when several are used) in superposed rows, and is provided with an opening across which extend a number of flexible or rigid bars adapted to retain the balls, but so positioned that any one of the balls may be removed by hand over the bar in front of it.
• Asked by his friends in Australia whether Mr. S. H. Fry would be likely to visit Australia, Mr. J. R Hooper replied: "I put that very question to him when leaving, and hoped we should see him out here both in amateur billiards and golf (he being a plus 3 man at MidSurrey). Unfortunately, his reply seemed only too definitely in the negative, so far, at any rate, as the immediate future is concerned."
• The first competition among the London District Y.M.C.A.s and Red Triangle Clubs for a silver shield and gold and silver medals, presented by Messrs. Thurston & Co., was recently won by the Walthamstow Y.M.C.A. The final was played with Bermondsey at the Y.M.C.A, headquarters, Tottenham Court Road. Walthamstow was represented by J. Attenborough, E. Beaney, and A. Stoddart.
• Bolton (Lancashire) has lost a clever left-handed amateur and enthusiastic billiardist in Mr. J. W. Ward, who died on June 13 in the local hospital, at the age of 44, following an operation. He participated in the Bolton Charity Tournament for a number of years, and was successful in winning the handsome silver cup in 1915, beating Mr. J. Martin by 700 to 679. He was a member of the Committee for about seven years.
• The New Zealand snooker champion, playing against C. Roberts, put down all the balls and scored 121 in two hands (36 and 85) on a standard table, his opponent not making a single point. The official snooker record is 86 (T. Newman), and the highest possible number of points in a game (exclusive of penalties) is 147. Probably 121 in two hands is another record.