(18.30) TOM NEWMAN : ' Four-figure
Breaks'
THAT master of four-figure breaks, Tom Newman , six times champion, is this evening to talk about them.
He was born on March 23, 1894, and started playing at nine years of age. He showed such facility for the game that when he was only eighteen he defeated the great John Roberts at Leicester Square. That was as long ago as 1912. The post-War years saw his feat of winning the professional championship six times between 1921 and 1927. He made the first break over a thousand with ivory balls, namely 1,024, in May,
1921, and is the holder of the world's record ivory ball break of 1,370, which he made on November 1, 1924.
During the six months' billiard season in 1932, he compiled thirty breaks over 1,000. He also returned an average of 200 for a fortnight's match.
He won the ' News of the World
Gold Cup ' in 1933, defeating Walter Lindrum , Joe Davis , and Clark McConachy , and toured Australia and America with Walter Lindrum in 1932 and 1933. But the year 1932 set the seal on the fame of the man who started to learn billiards as a little lad hardly big enough to bend over a table.