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On Wednesday 21st of April 1937, the Liverpool Echo, one of many newspapers, reported "Amateur’s Remarkable Break", Mr Bryn Gravenor, of Abertillery, the Welsh amateur billiards champion has made the highest reported snooker break by an amateur of 124. Mr Gravenor made the break while playing against Mr J. G. Thomas of Abertillery. Mr Tom J. Gravenor, Bryn’s elder brother later played billiards for the Powell’s Tillery Institute Billiards Team. On Saturday 30th of April 1938, Mr Bryn Gravenor was in the Powell’s Tillery Institute billiards team that won the South Wales Miners Welfare Billiards Championship when they beat Cwmdu Welfare Institute at Abercwmboi. The Powell’s Tillery Institute Team. On Saturday 9th of February 1935, Mr Bryn Gravenor reached the final of the Welsh Amateur Snooker Championship (Western Valley Section) although lost to Mr Ivor Edwards of Powell’s Billiard Hall, Cwm. On Friday 1st of May 1931, the South Wales Gazette reported on a successful past season for the Preece’s Billiard Hall, Abertillery.

Preece’s Billiard Hall, Abertillery. The Liberal Club, Abertillery. In 1933 Mr Bryn Gravenor featured in the Western Valley Billiards League playing for the Liberal Club, Abertillery. Division 1 winners, the Abertillery Liberal Club was presented the Burroughes and Watts’ Shield and Mr Bryn Gravenor of the club was awarded the W. Brown Cup. In December 1931, Mr Bryn Gravenor featured in the Monmouthshire Club’s Billiards League playing for the Six Bells Workmen’s Club. Their first team won the knock-out competition open to teams that played in the Western Valley League and they were also runners-up in the second division of the league. On Tuesday 21st of February 1933, the Western Mail reported Mr Bryn Gravenor of Abertillery lost to Mr Tom Jones of Quakers Yard in the final of the Welsh Amateur Snooker Championship. On Friday 22nd of August 1947, the South Wales Gazette ran a story on Mr John Ford another member of the Liberal Club, Abertillery. On Saturday 2nd of May 1931, Mr Bryn Gravenor won the Junior Amateur Championship of Monmouthshire held at the Lymes Club, Abertillery.

Mr Brinley Gravenor was born on Wednesday 5th of May 1909 at Abertillery, Monmouthshire. It stated that Mr Bryn Gravenor and Mr Arthur Dean were the finalists in the Junior Amateur Championship of Monmouthshire and Mr Tranter was in the last eight of the Junior Amateur Championship of Great Britain. The average applications of the last 5 years, have been about 20, the greater number being men in the prime of life. In billiards it is equally true to say that only a few men play equally well at different shots, the long losing hazard or the long winner, the screw, follow on, &c.; but at billiards it is far easier to regulate and engineer your game so as to avoid having to attempt a stroke you cannot play. The various associations controlling the different branches of sport have therefore devised working regulations to be observed so far as their jurisdiction extends.

The rules for the sports not within the Union’s jurisdiction are practically the same, except that in baseball, cricket and golf amateurs may compete with professionals, though not for cash prizes. We are all wearied with statistics in these days, so I certainly shall not encumber these pages with figures. A funeral is not an exciting or particularly pleasant occupation, but there are many funerals where a dead silence is not more cultivated than at some golf matches; and it is stupid and useless to fly into a passion because somebody thirty or forty yards off who is not playing golf at all, or at any rate has nothing to do with you, talks or laughs so that you must hear him. On looking through a set of old clubs, it has seemed to me obvious that the modern player requires altogether more powerful, heavier, and stiffer clubs than our forefathers did. Cricket has changed in all its features simply and solely because modern methods of the treatment of grounds has revolutionised the wicket, which has become so easy that almost any fool can bat. If there is any merit in mashies, bullet-headed drivers, and brasseys and bulgers, it must be remembered that the old players had not the advantage of using these, and some of the greater length of drive that is undoubtedly possessed by modern players must be put down to the credit of the club, and not of the player.

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