Billiards Quarterly is indebted to Mr. Geoff Oldfield also of Yorkshire and a great Billiards enthusiast who sends this cutting taken from a newspaper in 1930.
"For the exhibition game of Billiards of 600 up by Frank Fisher (Fartown) and Laurie Steeples (Amateur Billiards and Snooker Champion of England) George Nelson Junior has been appointed referee. Nelson is noted as a referee because of his ability to mark a game of any length without the use of a scoring board. He is known throughout the country as 'the human marking board,'"
Well, he would be wouldn't he? I wonder if Mr. Nelson could have handled the match played in February,1931 between Lindrum and Newman which Lindrum won by 25,807 to 24,436, Lindrum making 7 thousand breaks and averaging 248.1 to Tom Newman's average of 169.3. That would have tested him.