Jack at Burroughs Hall in the English Amateur Billiards Championship against Ernest Evans. You will notice that the score board says John Mellor, one of the few times he was ever referred to by his christened name.
This was a “cartoon” that appeared in the News Chronicle, taking the mickey out of amateur players. Tom Webster was a famous caricaturist of the day and specialised in sporting cartoons.
This is the reply to Tom Webster’s cartoon written by Richard Holt, the editor of the Billiard Player magazine.
1954
To complete a busy 1953/54 season, Jack won the Yorkshire Amateur Billiards Championship which was probably his finest achievement.
1956
Jack retained his title as he won his third Huddersfield Billiards Championship.
1957
Jack made it a hat trick of titles to equal Victor Muff, who won it in 1945, 46 & 47. Huddersfield Town had won the division one trophy three years in succession back in the 1920’s, so how fitting that the present manager, Bill Shankly, should present Jack with the trophy.
As probably the best two amateur players for the past 5 years, Jack and Harold must have met each other in many matches. This was yet another and, just as the next year, Harold won the honour of representing Yorkshire in the English Amateur Championship proper. Harold had won the previous year to make it three years in succession that he went to London in the Championship proper. Jack had won the honour three years out of four between 1953 and 1956.
Jack Mellor 