CURIOUS INCIDENT RECALLED
Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, Saturday 15 January 1938
CURIOUS INCIDENT RECALLED.
The forthcoming visit to Boston of Mr. Sydney Smith, one of the country’s foremost snooker players, recalls to mind a very curious incident which occurred at a Boston billiards hall about a year ago.
On that occasion three players were about to embark on one of the variations on the game of snooker, when a solidly-built man, wearing an overcoat and a bowler hat, walked in.
The visitor was promptly invited to make “a four.” Alter some hesitation, he accepted, and a toss of the coin decided that he should play second.
The game was to pot the red balls, which were arranged at the end of the table in pyramid fashion. The first player “scattered” the balls and the “bowler hatted” visitor, who removed neither hat nor coat, went to the table and potted every ball, one after the other, with such hair-raising skill that the other three players stood speechless with amazement.
When he had finished, the visitor thanked them for the game and left the hall.
Who was he? No one knew. And it is unlikely that anyone ever will.