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I knew Rees Mcconachy, brother of Clarke.

Sorry I m late

makes Ronnie and jimmy look like cart horses

i am related to tom newman his brother is my grandad i never got to meet tom newman he died 30 years before i was born

My fabulous uncle Dan - miss him so much, so happy to have found this clip

Very skillful but utterly boring after you've watched it just once!

nice to understand his play in the historical context, and to see an actual full break, not just snapshots

jesus christ these guys look good! they look better than Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry and Hurricane Higgins combined!

My father played this guy in an exhibition match

Those aren't "trick shots". This is the only visual record we have of Lindrum's amazing 4137 break in January of 1932 (there is a famous report in The Times). These are three strokes from that break.

billiards archive...do you really have dvd with more on Dan Tobin and the Hurricane?

Butlins!

I went to buttons filey late 70's, my dad won the tourney then Ray took on winner and dad beat him 3:1 I seem to recall.

If it wasn't for billiards, there would be no snooker today as we know it. I've played both at a high level and billiards is far more skillful, its like comparing chess to checkers. Lindrum is one of my hero's.. still holds the highest break today I believe, a total legend.

Love it.

wow now that IS impressive

exc stuff

I hope to be the next Walter Lindrum :)

this looks like a smaller club table

what was the result?

went to the Lindrum hotel in Melbourne today , what a legend!!!!

Pulman's infamous comment during the Yamaha Open, when Steve Davis was about to equal the high break. "How are they going to split an organ?"

This wasn't actually part of the final. They played a special frame for the Newsreel after one of the sessions - so I'd guess the masse strokes were set up.

The markerwas a little too enthusiastic calling the scores

This video is the perfect example of why English Billiards isn't just a cue sport, it is an art and Walter Lindrum was undoubtedly the Leonard Da Vincci os Billiards :) Thank you for sharing this video of a legend :)

Alex inspired me back in the Eighties...had pleasure of seeing him, as well as White & Hendry play in their young prime....oh well my first century here was a slowcoach 6 mins!!

@Gosif You have no idea of the game or the concept do you? Shame.

yeah i think todays players dont realise how good they've got it what when you compare the short modern day matches to this! But also back then no one could really make a living at it - theres more pressure on players today who put all their lifes efforts into a game to survive. so hence this pressure - hence their behaviour. So its not so bad to be like a robot is it? I mean its not easy to just have fun and chill when you are playing for your livelihood. :)

Alex was the best ever player to watch along with Patsy Houlihan.

where can we watch him lift the trophy in 1972 (vs. John Spencer) ?

What a legend, I remember his commentaries on ITV during the eighties. Always on the ball for me although I heard once that he would occasionally dose off for a sleep and let his co-commentator do the talking.

Bloody legend!

RIP Alex, thanks for the memories and inspiration

RIP Hurricane. He invented modern day attacking snooker and led the way for White, O'Sullivan to follow.

RIP HIGGINS the best and always will be

he was the master,for sure.

love the music its laurel & hardy

If anyone can, Hurricane!

Great video. nice one uploading it.

Doddy little table :) I want one.

"Is this what you want" LOL

Yakkida at SHANGRILA - ha ha! Totally brilliant. Shades of days gone by. The government would tax the hell out of it now!

Hi there, this is amazing! Thanks for posting. Im thinking about making a documentary on Mark Allen, another NI wizard. Crazy aspect ratio though! Pillarboxed 4x3?? Would it be possible to get a mpeg of the programme please mate?

terrible cue action. he dips and stabs. but it worked for him.

lol. yeh right

He never had a bad cue action just different. The actual striking of the ball is great. Ain't he similiar to O'sullivan

Tom Reece made a break of a quarter million over a fortnights play.

hey, it's the same basket from the world's trickshot champ. LOL watch it at 2:05 here: youtube(dot)com/watch?v=15psvlUJnSc&feature=related

Thanks ! why did he stop his break at 1:06 with the swerve shot?

I have this photo on page 12 of the book "Horace Lindrum's Snooker Billards and Pool"