Here and There Notes

• Even when Falkiner made 1,500 in a single session, averaging 100, Smith was not put off his game, and still won.
• Newman has given a gold souvenir watch to Lawrence as a memento of the 1,024 break made by Newman against Lawrence at Burroughes Hall last season.
• In The Daily Mail a contributor says that the tendency in all games and sports seems to be towards lighter implement's. Does this apply to billiards at the present moment?
• The question arises: Do the public want a billiard championship? The man in the street is a pretty good judge, and knows, invariably, who is "top dog."#151; Sunday Pictorial.
• It now seems to be understood that the professional championship will be played at Messrs. Thurston's hall, in Leicester Square, commencing April 3, and it is hoped that all the leading players will compete.
• A very interesting "future" is the match between Newman and Smith, which is due to commence at Thurston's on December 12. This will be generally regarded as a kind of unofficial championship.
• A good judge of the game describes Tothill as a second Reece, and, having seen him perform on several occasions out of London, states that Tothill is a much better player than his display in the recent tournament indicated.
• The prize of £35 in the Junior Professional Tournament at Burroughes Hall was presented by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to Arthur Peall; Davis received £15; and Lady Conan Doyle handed a silver cigarette case to Carpenter by way of consolation prize.
• On his way here, McConachy toured India, and in that country compiled an Indian record with an effort of 870. From there he went to South Africa, where he had a very successful time. In Brisbane, Australia, he made a break of 639 in a match with F. Weiss. He has also to his credit a 500 break in a match of 500-up. He broke, and, scoring with his first effort, ran to his points without his opponent getting one stroke! Of course, all this was with bonzoline.
• Appended is the draw for the winter handicap at the headquarters of the B.A. and C.C. in Cranbourne Street:—Byes: C. E. Barker, W. J. Gask, G. W. S. Willins, V. Fieny, F. Afriat. Heat 1, Col. McLean v. J. C. Bisset; 2, L. Stroud v. S. C. L. Hatch; 3, J. J. Meakin v. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; 4, R. J. Corbett v. C. E. Horner; 5, H. Hardy v. A. J. Peters; 6, R. Penso v. Major R. O. Edwards. Byes: A. Wright, Rev. D. J. Thomas, E. W. Whithorn, C. M. Everard, W. Bessemer-Wright.
• In the Bristol League, the 100 has been exceeded (by Mr. C. Harris, North Bristol Institute) for the first time in twenty years.
• In Leeds there is so much match play going on in public rooms that ordinary players are asking where they come in as regards the use of the tables.
• The Stock-Exchange Billiard Handicap, which has attracted in entries, is proceeding, and will be specially and pictorially dealt with in the January issue of The Billiard Player.
• Inman says that Smith has no more chance of ever giving him a start than he has of climbing the dome of St. Paul's. Of Diggle, Inman says that what he learned from him helped him considerably on the long road to the championship.
• In one of the amateur break competitions following the junior professional tournament sessions at Burroughes Hall, Piccadilly, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle scored 19 from the position left by Arthur Peall, who, on resuming from the same position, made 6. It is not always thus, however.
• The Parliamentary Press Gallery Billiard Handicap for the Sir Emslie Carr Challenge Cup, at the Leicester Square Minor Hall, was won on November 4, by 70 points, by Mr. Alec Read (editor of the Official Debates, House of Lords) (rec. 45), playing against Algernon Locker (Punch) (owes 10).
• Breaking the balls at snooker, Mr. Walter Critchell, of the Cock Hotel, Kilburn, took six reds, three blues, the pink, and two blacks, or a total score of 41. Is this a record for an opening innings? Mr. Critchell has also made a 65 break at snooker. The official record is 86 by T. Newman.
• The way the late John Roberts used to "stun" the cue ball into barely dribbling on to the white, and then chalk his cue while the red was running all round the table to finish eventually within an inch of the other two balls, never failed to "bring down the house."#151; George Nelson in The Yorkshire Sports Post.
• Harverson is now teaching, as well as playing, billiards in South Africa. When coach with Messrs. Burroughes & Watts, in England, he gave lessons to Mr. S. H. Fry, and fixed him up with the cue that has since won the well-known amateur so many championships. Harverson, on his recent tour, won 53 games out of 54.
• There were eighteen interesting matches in the middle of the month at Burroughes Hall, Piccadilly, between Diggle and Davis, respectively a veteran and a quite young exponent of the game, the latter of whom, nevertheless, usually won. In the following week Peall and Goundrill were partnered in four-handed matches with Davis and Raynor.