'Counting Close Cannons
CHARLES CHAMBERS
It's an amazing thing to go into Thurston's and watch big players making their hundreds with infinitely more facility than we make our ' ten ' breaks, and perhaps it is even more fascinating to watch the marker who, unlike even the best players, never seems to make a mistake.
For two sessions a day, for a good many years now, a slender figure at the far end of the hall has called out the score, his voice a mechanical echo like the click of the balls, a white-gloved hand taking a ball out of a pocket-going on like a machine.
He is a tradition there. He must know the shape of Inman's face as well as Tom Webster does. And this evening Charles Chambers is to speak of sqme of his experiences.
He marked the Stevenson-Tom Carpenter match during a Zeppelin raid. He marked Lindrum's record break of 4,700 odd and Joe Davis 's four-figure break that followed. He marked when Lindrum went two-and-a-half times round the table with close cannons, and when Tom Reece ineffectually sprang his surprise of the pendulum stroke on Inman, and Inman is said to have gone out to the telephone to find out if the stroke was barred.
Billiards at Thurston's and Charles
Chambers are synonymous.
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