The Preliminary Professional Tournament
With the revival of preliminary professional
tournaments, we present on the opposite page
the portraits of the players in 1912 and 1913.
These tournamentsas some expect will again
be the case this yearwere won by A. F. Peall,
whose opponents this month and up to November 5, in heats of 3,500 up, will be Tothill (rec.
350), Lawrence (rec. 350), Carpenter (rec. 500),
and Davis (rec. 750). Portraits of all of these
have been recently given in The Billiard Player.
By-Gone Preliminary Professional Tournaments
THE 1912 PRELIMINARY TOURNAMENT
(1) A. F. Peall. (2) C. Falkiner. (3) E. Breed. (4) A. Raynor. (5) W. Osborne. (6) J. W. Collens. (7) J.
Chapman. (8) J. Harris. (9) E. Hoskins. (10) W. H, Sparrow. (11) T. Tothill. (12) H. Taylor.
THE 1913 PRELIMINARY TOURNAMENT
(1) J. Brady. (2) E. C. Breed. (3) T. Carpenter. (4) J. Chapman. (5) W. Christie. (6) G. Clarke. (7) W.
Cook. (8) A. Brown. (9) K. Cox. (10) T. A. Dennis. (11) B. Elphick. (12) H. Holliwell. (13) E. Hoskin.
(14) J. Harris. (15) J. James. (16) W. Murray. (17) J. Oldfield. (18) W. Osborne. (19) A. F. Peall.
(20) W. Pindar. (21) A. Raynor. (22) G. H. Rimmer. (23) W. H. Sparrow. (24) T. Tothill.