The thing that surprised him was that Shanghai men played so well fon the tables they had, They were good as club tables, but they could not be compared with those the best amateurs and the professionals at Home played on. The Union Club table, for instance, was really very good, but as against a championship table it was the difference between the most-used Ford car ever seen and the most luxurious Roll-
Royce ever built, He thought the scheme suggested by Mr. Gibson and Mr. Johnson certainly should te adopted. Bil-Yiards was the greatest of indoor games and it encouraged—the development of many sood habits, three of the greatest being determination, concentration and keeping one's temper. Anything they could do to interest a larger number of people would be worth while and he considered $10 was a cheap price to ask for seats at a series of games contested by such players as he had seen here.
Falkiner wishes to play Smith again next year if n meeting can be arranged and if Smith will agree to use composition balls, Falkiner travels abroad a great deal each year and so is unaceustonied to ivory balls, and this is the only, point at issue between them. Whatever happens, he proposes to make. another tour next year and says that
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