3-028-351 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Billiard Champion Cup, 1870. 'The great billiard-match, played at St. James's Hall, by Mr. John Roberts and Mr. William Cook, for £100 a side and the championship of this kingdom, was the subject of an Illustration published on Feb. 19. The championship prize is a silver cup, presented jointly by three eminent billiard-table makers, Messrs. Burroughes and Watts, Messrs. Cox and Yeman, and Messrs. Thurston and Co. Our Engraving shows the design of this piece of plate, manufactured expressly by Mr. J. W. Benson, of Old Bond-street. Mr. Cook will keep it till he meets a man able to beat him at the game'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.