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Two giants of the local snooker scene get ready for battle

Two giants of the local snooker scene get ready for battle
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Principle over prestige: When India forfeited a Davis Cup final to Apartheid South Africa

India’s decision to not play South Africa in the final of the prestigious competition was widely criticised by international tennis governing bodies.

Meet snooker s first gorgeous bachelor girl of the baize

Meet snooker s first gorgeous bachelor girl of the baize Rita Holmes won four Women’s Amateur Championships in an extraordinary career that began in 1953 and ended in 2007 Rita Holmes honing her craft in training At first glance Rita Holmes’s story belongs to a lost world. Burroughes Hall with its pillared entrance and gold signage at 19 Soho Square, the place where she won the first of four British Women’s Amateur Snooker Championships at the age of 19 in 1953, is long gone, demolished by property developers in 1967 and replaced by a nondescript office block. Also gone is the Midland Billiards Club in Leyton, east London, owned by her father and the place where she learnt to play. Myriad other clubs and billiards halls that rode and sustained its boom as a participation sport, rather than a TV spectacle, from the 1920s through to the 1960s have also been torn down. And yet Rita is still with us, in her 88th year and doubtless ready, as one of the household gods of the wo

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