Darryl Doolittle of Valley City Branch in Dundas, Ont., ran the table in five of six playoff games to take the singles title at the 2024 Legion national eight-ball championships in Hartland, N.B. (STEPHEN J. THORNE)

The eyes have it: A pool pictorial

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

Apparently concerned yet unfazed by Robert Preston’s cautionary message, Darryl Doolittle’s mom deposited her eight-year-old son at Jigger’s pool hall in Hagersville, Ont., more than half a century ago and told him to “keep an eye on” his dad.

Darryl Doolittle never looked back.

“Since I picked up that cue, I loved this game,” he said after sweeping all three titles—team, doubles and singles—at the 2024 Legion national eight-ball championships May 24-27 in beautiful Hartland, N.B.

“All my life—that’s 52 years ago. That’s a true story.”

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Canada and the Boer War

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On May 31, 1902, the Treaty of Vereeniging formally ended the Boer War, leaving the British Empire victorious against the South African Republic (or Transvaal) and the Orange Free State.

The Afrikaans-speaking Boers, descended from Dutch settlers, were now British subjects, while the resource-rich lands belonged to the Crown.

Fuelled by imperialism, numerous atrocities had been committed during some three years of bloody battles, scorched earth policy and in concentration camps run by the British.

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