in Shanghai When George Gray is not working—that is, playing billiards—he sometimes sits in the Astor House lobby and watches Shanghai go by and, if you are lucky, he may consent to tell you a few things about how he plays the game, how he happened to start playing it, and under what conditions he plays best.
Mr, Gray is too famous to need to be introduced as one of the world's champion billiard players. He has played with all the biggest players and beaten them and is ready to play anybody. He holds the world's record break of 2196 unfinished now which he made in England while he was there for two years between 1910 and 1912 and, also, within the same time, made 37 other breaks over 1,000. George Gray will be well-known to Shanghai through the sporting columns during his stay here, which will be several weeks, before he goes on into fresh unconquered fields, so now we were only interested in knowing the more human and generally interesting} things about his life,
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