Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1913 — SAFETY PLAY WILL REMAIN [ARTICLE]

SAFETY PLAY WILL REMAIN

National Billiard Association Decides to Retain Old Rule—Opposes Long Contests. Safety play Is to he retained as permissable in billiards and not to he penalized in the rules about to be established by the National Association of Amatur Billiard Players, according to a decision reached by the rules committee. It wis learned that a number of prominent amateur players had registered their opposition to the proposed rule on the grdund that it would take from billiards what amounted to its only defensive element. Although it 1b believed by the committee that the new rule was misinterpreted, its elimination has been decided upon. The idea was to do away with the deliberate wrecking of a billiard match by a player who was unable to get his stroke and would not allow his opponent to make anything out of his turns at table. Play lasting for five hours or more has often resulted from such exhibitions.