Schaefer ($1,000) 6 220 40.00 23.23
Vignaux ($800) 5 246 31.58 22.07
Daly ($500) 4 90 17.14 13.50
Sexton ($300) 3 170 16.58 10.88
Morris ($200) 2 101 15. 10.84
J. Dion 1 101 15.71 10.36
Wallace 0 134 7.79
Matches were to have been 800 points for $500 a side, but none was ever
made, and in due time the emblem became Schaefer’s to keep. This was the
second case of first-class championship tournament without ever a match.
Nor was there a balkline championship match until Slosson and Schaefer’s
in 1890, which was the first case of first-class carom championship,
either national or universal, without a tournament.
* * * * *
=Vignaux vs. Schaefer.= At close of foregoing tournament these experts
played two games in public. The one in Hartford, Conn., was at cushion
caroms, and Schaefer won it. The other, played at Academy of Music, N.
Y. City, June 12th, was in all respects on balkline championship terms,
except that, as there was no challenge, therefore there could not be a
championship match. V., 800 (total)—22.22 (winning average)—106 (highest
run); S., 644 (total)—90 (highest run).
* * * * *
=First Balkline Match Abroad.= Grand Café, Brussels, Belgium, November
21–25th.—$500 a side, 4½ × 9 table. Garnier, 3000; Daly, 2839. Averages
and runs not cabled.
Second game, Lyons, France, December 10–14th.—Same size of table.
Garnier, 3000—27.23—238; Daly, 2970—309.
* * * * *
=Vignaux vs. Schaefer.= Grand Hotel, Paris, November 26–30th.—$1,000 a
side. V., 3000—28.85—165; S., 2859—164.
Same place and terms, January 14–18, 1884. V., 3000—44.75—329; S.,
2869—201.
* * * * *
=Vignaux vs. Rudolphe.= Paris, December 10–14th.—Same terms as last two
games above. V., 3000; R., 1415. Runs and averages not cabled.
1884.
=Vignaux vs. Schaefer.= See 1883, November 26–30th.
* * * * *
=Championship of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts.= M. H. Hewins’s
Room, Hartford (except last game, which was played in Allyn Hall),
January 29th to February 15th.—Tournament at “Space Game,” a combination
of Balkline and the oblique line of the Champion’s Game. L. A. Guillet,
5—0; Hewins, 4—1; H. Behrens, J. A. Hendrick and C. T. Shean, 2—3
apiece; and J. Pletcher, 0—5. Play-off gave Behrens third money, and
Shean fourth. A gold watch was championship emblem.
Three matches followed, all played in Springfield, Mass., the home of
Guillet, who defeated Hewins by 500 to 286, received forfeit from
Behrens, and finally, December 30, 1885, defeated Behrens by 500 to 366.
Except as here set forth, the “Space Game” has never been played in
public.
* * * * *
=McLaughlin vs. Heiser.= Assembly Buildings, Phila., Jan. 17, second of
three different styles of game, $250 a side apiece. McL., 600—10—64; H.,
470—43. (See Regular Three-ball and Champion’s Game for the two other
contests.)
* * * * *
=Maggioli vs. John T. Moulds.= New Orleans, February 28–29th, March
1st.—Former gave odds of 25 per cent., for $500 a side, and won by 1200
to 1153. Nothing of moment in runs or averages.
* * * * *
=Schaefer vs. Slosson.= Central Music Hall, Chicago, May 12th.—$500 a
side. Schaefer, 800—38.10—211; Slosson, 384—200. First game of a match
at two different styles (see Champion’s Game, 1884, for the other).
Later there were a few 8:2 matches between lesser experts; but this was
the last, of either match or tournament, between first-class ones.
1885.
=First Handicap Tournament.= Starting early this year, there were many
handicap tournaments during that and the next half dozen or more; but in
only a half dozen of such tournaments was aught accomplished worth
recording. The one in Platt’s Hall, San Francisco, January 4–6th, this
year, is cited first among the exceptional six because of its having
been the first at the game, the first tournamental playing of it on a
4½ × 9 table, and the only instance of a player’s single averages being
the same as his general average.
Entrance fee, $250, with $250 added by the B. B. C. Co. Three games.
Hand. Run. Av. G. A.
Lon Morris ($750) 500 97 18.52 18.52
J. F. B. McCleery ($250). 300 77 7.89 9.11
Ben Saylor 350 87 10.03
Morris’s averaging 18.52 against both opponents necessarily made his
general average 18.52 also.
* * * * *
=Line Increased from 8:2 to 12.2.= Central Music Hall, Chicago, January
26th.—$500 a side. Schaefer, 800—14.55—109; Slosson, 719—98.
* * * * *
=Increased to 14:2.= Philadelphia roomkeepers’ championship handicap
tournament, begun March 2d. Ed McLaughlin, Wm. Rockhill, and Pincus Levy
won, 6—1 apiece, and Rockhill won emblem and $100 in playing off, Levy
taking second prize ($75), and McLaughlin third ($50).
There were about a dozen match-contests for the trophy. Winning it from
Rockhill on May 28th, at odds of 300 to 200, McLaughlin would have made
it his own had not James Palmer, on May 25, 1886, defeated him by 175 to
254 in a possible 300. Ed. Burris beat Palmer on September 23, 1886, and
others later at intervals, among them McLaughlin twice (handicap 225 to
300), and finally became owner of the emblem by defeating Pincus Levy,
June 2, 1887, by 200 to 126 in a possible 150. What is worth recording
here is not in the play itself, but in the logic of the situation. That
it was a handicap championship necessarily made McLaughlin the champion
all along as the giver of the longest odds.
In December, 1890, at the Continental Hotel, the Philadelphia
roomkeepers engaged in another 14:2 handicap (John Cline, Ed. Burris and
Ed. McLaughlin first, second, and third on imposts of 225, 300, and 400
points), but avoided the championship contradiction.
* * * * *
=First Public Match at 14:2.= Central Music Hall, Chicago, March
25th.—$250 a side. Capt. A. C. Anson, 500—5.43—39; Frank Parker, 364—22.
* * * * *
=Catton vs. Gallagher.= Mercantile Library Hall, St. Louis, $500 a side,
8:2. C., 800—10.67—74; G., 687—78.
* * * * *
=First Strictly Public Tournament at 14:2.= Irving Hall, N. Y. City,
April 20–29th.—$2,250 added by the B. B. C. Co. to entrance fees of $250
apiece and to net door-money equally divided among the five. The
approximate average of tournament, which instituted no championship, was
11.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Slosson ($1,464.78) 4 148 22.73 18.18
Schaefer ($1,064.78) 3 97 18.52 15.08
Sexton ($864.78) 2 53 10. 7.97
Daly ($714.78) 1 51 8.95 7.99
J. Dion ($464.78) 0 52 7.24
* * * * *
=A 14:2 Tournament of Four Rounds.= VIGNAUX, SCHAEFER AND
SLOSSON.—Central Music Hall, Chicago, twelve nights between November
16th and December 26th, both inclusive, for $2,950, given by Chicago
roomkeepers, and $1,000 by the B. B. C. Co., with the net receipts
added. No championship was involved. Independent games of 600 points,
every player playing every other twice, constituted the first two
rounds, or tournament proper, and 800–point games, every man playing
every other twice, constituted the remaining rounds, which were to
determine the triple tie of November 16–21st, duplicated December
21–23d.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Slosson 2 89 19.36 18.85
Vignaux 2 195 75. 25.64
Schaefer 2 152 23.08 19.47
After this tie, the three proposed to divide all, and did divide all but
the $1,000 of the B. B. C. Co., which required them to play to a finish.
The next round was also a tie, but in the final one Schaefer beat both,
and Vignaux beat Slosson. Nothing of moment signalized the six extra
games, save that Schaefer lengthened his high run to 187, that Slosson
reached 159, and that Vignaux fell from a winning average of 75 to
22.22, and then to 13.11.
1886.
[All play now 14:2 on a 5 × 10, unless otherwise stated.]
=Schaefer vs. Vignaux.= Cosmopolitan Hall, N. Y. City, January
26–30th.—$2,500 a side. S., 3000—20.97—180; V., 2838—143.
Same hall, March 9–13th.—$1,000 a side. S., 3000—25.86—230; V.,
1855—149.
* * * * *
=Gallagher vs. Carter.= B. B. C. Co.’s Warerooms, Chicago, March
9th.—$250 a side. G., 500—9.61—41; C., 381—37.
* * * * *
=McLaughlin vs. Heiser.= Cosmopolitan Hall, N. Y. City, March 8th.—$500
a side, home-and-home. McL., 500—7.35—51; H., 435—65. Return game,
Assembly Buildings, Philadelphia, March 19th. H., 500—9.61—55; McL.,
429—48.
* * * * *
=Purse Game at 10.2.= Allyn Hall, Hartford, Conn., December 20th.
Sexton, 500—9.61—69; McKenna, 369—52.
An unexampled feature of the year was that three winners out of
four—Gallagher, Heiser, and Sexton—did 500 points in 52 innings (or
9.61) in matches.
1887.
=Twelve Players Tied Out of Thirteen.= St. Louis, January 3d to February
17th.—Handicap for six prizes (aggregating $725) and a challenge medal.
Wayman C. McCreery did the handicapping, E. Carter and T. J. Gallagher
being high at 300 each. There were two ties of four each, and two of two
each, W. H. Catton, sixth from both top and bottom with his 6—6, being
the only one who escaped. Among amateurs, Chicago has since surpassed
this in the striking particular that all five contestants tied alike,
every one winning and losing two games of a tournament held in the late
Henry Rhines’s room.
In playing off for from first to fourth in St. Louis, Frank Day and John
Thatcher tied again for first and second, and Gallagher and Maggioli for
third and fourth. Thatcher beat Day, and Maggioli lost to Gallagher.
Carter, who, with 5—7, was among the other tieing four, made the highest
single average (18.75) by 50 per cent., and was the only one who ran
triple figures (101), Maggioli coming next with 78, Gallagher with 69,
and Catton with 68. The regular games numbered 78.
* * * * *
=McLaughlin vs. Heiser.= Natatorium Hall, Philadelphia, February
24–26th.—$250 a side. McL., 1500—5.60—46; H., 1064—45.
Daly’s Assembly Rooms, Brooklyn, March 15–17th.—Return game, $250 a
side. H., 1500—7.81—55; McL., 1258—60.
* * * * *
=Schaefer vs. Slosson.= Central Music Hall, Chicago, April 12th.—$500 a
side. Schaefer, 800—17.78—126; Slosson, 639—135.
1888.
=Connecticut Championship at 8:2 on a 4½ × 9.= M. H. Hewins’ Rooms,
Hartford, January 17th to February 6th.—Tournament of 250–point games.
Fred Hawks, 5—0, first prize; J. A. Hendrick, 4—1, second prize, and
also prize for high run (36); W. G. White, 2—3, third prize, having
beaten R. W. Kellogg in play-off.
Same room, game, and table, April 9th.—Match for championship. Hawks,
300—4.55—27; John H. Kingsbury, 217—7.
The championship emblem was a billiard-table, to be defended fifteen
months.
* * * * *
=First 14:2 Tournament in France.= Played on a B. B. C. Co.’s 5 × 10
table at Vignaux’s Academy, Paris, March 19–28th.—Contestants at various
handicaps, Messrs. Vignaux (3—1), Piot, Fournil, and Leuiller (2—2
apiece), and Gay (1—3).
* * * * *
=Slosson Defeats Schaefer.= St. Paul, Minn., October —, 14:2, purse
game, $250, given by the B. B. C. Co. No data as to totals, runs or
averages.
* * * * *
=First Championship of Shortstops.= Madison Street Theatre, Chicago,
November 26th to December 8th.—200–point games. Carter, who won 7—0 in
games and $254.80 in money, made highest run, single average and general
average (87—13.33—9.33). Catton and Gallagher tied for second and third,
and divided $302.80, and Maggioli and John T. Moulds, tieing for fourth,
divided $64.60. The other contestants were Frank C. Ives (2—5), Wm. F.
Hatley (2—5), and Henry Rhines (1—6). In December, 1889, Ives challenged
Carter, who, intending to go to Paris, declined to defend the emblem.
There was never a match-contest for the emblem, Ives holding it the
required time without challenge. After Carter’s return from Europe,
there was a second tournament for the shortstop championship (see 1891).
1889.
=New England Championship at 10.2 on 4½ × 9.= J. J. Murphy’s Hub Palace,
Boston, ending December 18th.—Eight in. Fred Eames first, Moses Yatter
second, Chas. F. Campbell third. (See February 16–26, 1891, for their
being 1—2—3 also for another 10.2 championship.)
1890.
=Maggioli vs. Hatley.= Madison Street Theatre, Chicago, January
23d.—Match for $250 a side and the championship of Western players below
first grade. M., 500—9.26—71; H., 327—28.
* * * * *
=Old Line Against New.= Chickering Hall, N. Y. City, February 20th to
March 1st.—First appearance of Ives and Catton in the East. To six
entrances of $250 apiece, the B. B. C. Co. added $2,500. Games 500 up,
Slosson and Schaefer playing 14:2 against the 8:2 of the others, three
of whom divided third, fourth, and fifth prizes.
As professionals of mark have never publicly repeated this experiment of
line against line, averaging this tournament in its entirety would be
worthless for comparison. Average of the four 8:2 players, 13.17; of the
two 14:2, 17.63.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Slosson ($1,600) 5 136 26.32 17.36
Schaefer ($1,200) 4 168 26.32 17.93
Daly ($400) 2 118 20.83 13.52
Catton ($400) 2 95 15.13 11.31
Ives ($400) 2 105 25. 17.80
Heiser 0 141 10.90
Going to Chicago, the same players contended in Central Music Hall,
April 5–12th for a like amount of money, but handicapped in points, all
at 14:2. In place of $400 thrice, now read Slosson, $800; Catton, $400.
Average of tournament, 12.48.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Schaefer (500) 5 200 38.46 25.00
Ives (275) 4 97 25.00 13.12
Slosson (500) 3 178 25. 20.18
Catton (250) 2 74 9.26 8.33
Heiser (250) 1 52 6.25 5.67
Daly (300) 0 62 6.96
* * * * *
=Maggioli vs. Ives.= Madison Street Theatre, Chicago, April 16th.—$250 a
side. M., 500—15.15—121; I., 440—73.
* * * * *
=First World’s Championship at 14:2.= Instituted without the formality
of a tournament in a match-contest at Chickering Hall, N. Y. City,
December 1st.—Stake, $500 a side in money and a silver Challenge Cup
presented by the B. B. C. Co. Schaefer, 800—19.51—128; Slosson, 609—60.
SCHAEFER VS. CARTER. Second match, same terms, Central Music Hall,
Chicago, May 6, 1891.—S., 800—21.05—104; C., 481—111.
SCHAEFER VS. SLOSSON. Third match, Lenox Lyceum, N. Y. City, January 22,
1892.—Schaefer, 800—23.53—155; Slosson, 592—119.
SCHAEFER BEATEN BY IVES. Fourth match, Central Music Hall, Chicago,
March 19, 1892.—I., 800—16.33—95; S., 499—45.
IVES VS. SLOSSON. Fifth match and last contest, same place as above, May
21, 1892.—I., 800—26.67—124; S., 488—120.
=First Reversion of an Emblem to Donors.= For their failure to play the
sixth match in Paris, where it was made in 1892 by Ives and Schaefer,
the official stakeholders declared match off, Challenge Cup reverting to
donors under the rules.
1891.
=Second New England Championship at 10.2.= J. J. Murphy’s Hub Palace,
Boston, Feb. 16–26, tournament for challenge emblem valued at $100 and
$320 in money, 250 points on 4½ × 9. Eames, Yatter, and Campbell were
again 1—2—3, but this time against T. R. Bullock (fourth money) and Wm.
Gilman. Eames lost not a game and made best single average, run, and
general average—10.87—55—7.58.
* * * * *
=Second Shortstop Championship.= B. B. C. Co.’s Warerooms, Chicago,
February 10–27th.—Games, 400 points. Average of tournament, 9.86.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Carter 7 116 30.77 15.55
Ives 6 116 44.44 19.38
Catton 4 83 21.05 10.55
McLaughlin 3 109 14.29 9.34
Maggioli 3 76 9.09 8.18
Hatley 3 60 12.12 9.30
Jos. Capron 2 54 10.33 7.26
L. Shaw 0 54 6.15
Either Capron’s is a losing average or the figures are an error for
13.33, a winning one.
CARTER VS. IVES. Central Music Mall, Chicago, April 29th.—Only match
contest. I., 500—9.43—70; C., 478—72.
* * * * *
=Again 10.2 on a 4½ × 9.= Union Hall, Providence, R. I., March
10–14th.—C. F. Campbell, 2—1; Eames, 2—1; Bullock, 1—2; and Moses
Yatter, 1—2. Campbell won in play-off. Eames made best single average
and run—9.68 and 66.
* * * * *
=First Balkline Amateur Tournament in the East.= Daly’s Assembly Rooms,
Brooklyn, March 9–20th.—8:2 on 4½ × 9, handicap. Won by Samuel Ehrlich
(165). Best averages, single and general (6.43 and 5.70), by Wm.
Barnard, who carried the top weight (225), and best run (76) by Dr. H.
D. Jennings, who was next in weight (200).
Eastern amateurs last played 8:2 in formal contest on February 2 and
March 4, 1893, in Brooklyn, Frank A. Keeney scoring 300 to Dr. Jennings
189 first, and 300 to his 212 next.
* * * * *
=Championship of Pennsylvania.= Pittsburg, March 16–21st.—Challenge
emblem and money-prizes aggregating $800. Average of tournament, 4.22.
W. R. Av. G. A.
McLaughlin 5 64 9.09 6.23
Dodds 4 31 4.84 4.25
Burris 3 45 6.84 4.95
Boschert 2 25 5.17 3.83
Walker 1 29 4.23 3.94
J. Cline 0 31 3.71
Stake in matches, $300. Challenged by Dodds, McLaughlin won in
Philadelphia, May 4th, by 400 to 181.
* * * * *
=Twelve and a Half Line on 4½ × 9.= B’nai B’rith Hall, San Francisco,
April 23d.—J. F. B. McCleery and B. Saylor began a tournament at 12½.2
for championship of the Pacific Coast. Result of first game is all that
ever reached the Atlantic. S., 400—12.12—73; McC., 221—41. W. A. Spinks
was the other entry.
* * * * *
=Slosson vs. Schaefer.= N. Y. City, October 26th.—$500 a side. Slosson,
800—22.22—173; Schaefer, 392—48.
* * * * *
=Ives vs. Carter.= Milwaukee, Wis., October 28th.—Consideration not
known. As it was played out of the bailiwick of both, it was probably a
purse game. I., 600—30—133; C., 183 (total).
1892.
[See 1890 for championship matches in this year, together with
explanation of later inaction.]
* * * * *
=Vignaux vs. Schaefer.= Paris, France, December 21–22d.—$500 a side. V.,
1200; S., 982. Runs and averages not cabled.
1893.
=First Known 14:2 Tournament of Amateurs.= G. F. Slosson’s Room, N. Y.
City, 1893. Byron Stark first, Dr. A. B. Miller second, and Dr. A. L.
Ranney third.
But at Daly’s, Brooklyn, December 23, 1886, two amateurs had played a
match at 12.2. Orville Oddie, Jr., who won, gave odds of 100. Winner,
400—4.40—18; loser, 338—21.
* * * * *
=Sutton’s Caromic Beginnings in Public.= Toronto, Can., championship of
Canada and $500. George Sutton, 500; Joseph W. Capron, 459. (January
27th, $500, the former ball-pool player beat Capron at regular
three-ball game by 700 to 266.)
Galt, Ont., March 28th.—Championship and same stake. C., 500; S., 306.
Galt, Ont., April 20th.—Championship and same stake. S., 500; C., 408.
In January, 1894, S. forfeited championship to C.
Half in Toronto and half in Galt, March 29–30, 1894.—Fourth time for
championship and $500. C., 1000; S., 830.
April, 1894, Montreal, C. played M. Thomas for championship and $500.
C., 500; T., 415.
December, 1894, Montreal, C. again encountered Sutton, but now in a
tournament in which he had to play off with Spark B. Watson to get first
prize, Sutton being third, Thomas fourth, and W. Jakes fifth.
* * * * *
=Championship of Canada at 14:2.= See Sutton, above.
* * * * *
=Capron vs. Ed. M. Helm.= Chicago, July 7, 1893.—$200. C., 400; H., 246.
* * * * *
=Schaefer vs. Ives.= Chicago, November 21–25, 1893.—$2,000 a side.
Schaefer, 4000—27.21—343; I., 3955—456. When last night’s play began,
winner had 1305 to go to Ives’s 800. Run of 456 chiefly by anchor, due
to the Ives-Roberts London match in prior spring.
* * * * *
=Second Tournament of Doubled Games.= Madison Square Garden Concert
Hall, N. Y. City, December 11–16th.—$600 entrance fee apiece, winner to
take 50 per cent. of it and of the net receipts, second and third taking
30 and 20. Schaefer first—average, 100—run, 566 (against Ives in final
game); Ives, second, 50—141; Slosson, third, 41.67—164. Schaefer’s 566
was nearly all anchor across short line ending at left-lower cushion.
Going to Chicago, the three played January 8–13, 1894, in Central Music
Hall, ending in a tie (not played off) between Schaefer and Ives, who
had anchored up to 487 and equaled the Schaefer average in New York.
Slosson won no game. After the others had each beaten him once, anchor
was barred, and neither first nor second class players have ever revived
it, eyes like Ives’s and Schaefer’s being scarce.
Next to Cincinnati, February 1–3d, and there, playing but once around
for $1,500, Ives was first—general average, 28.60—run, 163; Schaefer,
second—general average, 21.52—run, 74; and Slosson third—general
average, 17.36—run, 97.
Next to Boston, February 8–10th.—Same terms as in Cincinnati, and this
ended tour. Slosson first—general average, 23.50—run, 163; Schaefer
second—general average, 16—run, 271; Ives third—general average, 19—run,
146.
1894.
=Philadelphia Three-handed Handicap.= March 19–24th.—Purse of $300 added
to entrance fees, Burris and Dodds, second and third, playing 300 to the
400 of McLaughlin, first.
* * * * *
=Boston Match at 4½ × 9 10.2.= April 11–13th.—Eames, 1200; Geo. R.
Carter, 883.
* * * * *
=Sexton vs. Heiser.= N. Y. City, August 13–18th.—Opening of Maurice
Daly’s Annex. Purse game. S., 1500; H., 1152.
* * * * *
=Ives vs. Schaefer.= Home-and-home match, November 12–17th in New York,
and in December 3–8th in Chicago.—$2,500 a side each game. First: I.,
3600—48.62—331; S., 3074—244. Second: I., 3600—41.38—359; S., 2831—217.
This was the last stake-match at 14:2 between stars of the first
magnitude.
* * * * *
=Gallagher vs. Fournil.= Daly’s, N. Y. City, beginning December
17th.—Purse game. Edouard Fournil, of Paris, France, gave odds of 50 per
cent. and won by 3000 to 1421, actual score, the best run being the
winner’s 176. A little later, Gallagher won with odds of 1800; G.,
3000—14.65; F., 2289—27.91.
1895.
=Sutton’s First in Carom Tournament.= Recital Hall, Chicago, January
18–27th.—Shortstops at 14:2, anchor barred, $1,000 in prizes. Order here
is games won and lost, best average, general average, and high run:
Gallagher, 5 to 0—28.58—19.80—104; Hatley, 3 to 2—12.15—11.—93;
Maggioli, 3 to 2—14.29—10.54—91; McLaughlin, 2 to 3—21.—13.50—114;
Sutton, 1 to 4—13.80—9.75—80; Capron, 1 to 4—13.—8.40—54. Hatley and
Maggioli divided second and third. Sutton beat McLaughlin only.
* * * * *
=Amateur Championship of Illinois at 14:2.= B. B. C. Co.’s Warerooms,
Chicago, Ill., February, 300 points. With the exception of the
winner-in-chief’s, which we have corrected, the averages—some winning
and others losing—are only roundly expressed, as they appeared
originally in a Chicago daily newspaper in 1895.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Ellison 7 74 10. 7.81
Rice 6 59 9. 5.80
Kellogg 4 34 6.50 4.75
Nolan 3 39 5. 3.60
Goodwin 3 46 6. 4.
Adams 3 36 6.50 4.40
Rein 1 23 4. 3.20
Brown 0 44 4. 3.
The emblem ultimately became the property of Clem E. Ellison. There was
but one match-contest for it, and in that, against Mr. Milburn at the
rooms of the Chicago A. C., E. won on an average of 6.
* * * * *
=W. A. Spinks vs. George Carter at 14:2.= Boston, October 13–14th.—$100,
4½ × 9. S., 900; C., 477.
* * * * *
=Roomkeepers’ 14:2 Tournament.= Philadelphia, ending October 26th.—Order
of finish: Burris, H. Cline, McCabe, J. Cline, and Rhoads.
1896.
=Shortstops in Chicago.= Recital Hall, Jan. 18–27; game, 400 points,
14:2; prizes, $1,000.
W. R. Av. G. A.
T. J. Gallagher 5 104 28.57 19.80
J. F. Maggioli 3 91 14.29 10.60
Ed. McLaughlin 2 114 21.05 13.53
W. F. Hatley 3 93 12.50 11.
Geo. Sutton 1 86 13.79 9.75
Jos. Capron 1 54 13. 8.51
=Intercity and Interclub Amateur Tournament.= The first was held at
Maurice Daly’s Assembly Rooms, Brooklyn, in 1895, and the second, held
at his rooms in this city, January 13–27, 1896, is given a place here
because of its having embraced nearly all of those who have since been
busiest _en amateur_ in and around Manhattan.
W. R. Av. G. A.
A. R. Townsend(325) 4 57 8.80 5.87
J. Byron Stark (270) 9 53 10.38 5.56
Ed. W. Gardner(250) 6 34 5.70 4.34
F. A. Keeney(240) 6 39 5.72 4.68
Dr. A. B. Miller(240) 4 44 6.13 4.32
Dr. A. L. Ranney(240) 1 42 4.25 3.59
F. Poggenburg(210) 6 36 5.13 4.
There were three other competitors—Messrs. Wm. Barnard, Dr. H. D.
Jennings, and Fred Oakes. The game was 14:2.
* * * * *
=First Tournament at 18:2.= Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, March
31st to April 5th, under the auspices of Ives and Daly. Two shots in
balk and five in anchor-box, instead of ten, as had latterly been the
practice at 14:2. Games, 600 points, all three contestants playing twice
around. Schaefer and Ives 3—1 each, but never played off; Albert
Garnier, 0—4. Best winning averages, general averages, and high runs:
I., 50—36.48—200; S., 30—24.11—176; Garnier, ...—9.99—36.
Repairing to Chicago, they next played the
=First Tournament at 18:1.=
Central Music Hall, May 18–23d.—Only one shot either in anchor or in
balk. Playing twice around, Schaefer and Ives 500 to Garnier’s 300, G.
first, I. second. Best single, best general, and highest run: G.,
12—9.60—53; I., 19.58 (losing)—16.58—103; S., 17.56 (losing)—12.70—111.
In Boston their tour ended. See Cushion Caroms.
* * * * *
=Temporary Revival of 14:2 by Stars.= Bumstead Hall, Boston, April
18th.—Four-handed. Daly and Schaefer, averaging 23.81, defeated Garnier
and Ives by 500 to 347.
1897.
=All Tie in Pittsburg, Pa., Tournament of Shortstops.= Davis’s Room,
February 27th to March 6th.—14:2 without anchor, $1,000 in 40, 30, 20,
and 10 per cent. divisions, 400–point games. Average of tournament,
approximately 12.70. In play-off, Sutton beat both, and Spinks, running
187 and averaging 40, put third prize upon Gallagher.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Sutton 3 88 22.22 12.
Spinks 3 138 36.36 11.90
Gallagher 3 100 27. 17.16
McLaughlin 2 78 15.39 11.78
Maggioli 2 99 13.33 10.14
Catton 2 97 22.22 13.41
* * * * *
=Same Players, Plus John Matthews, in Chicago.= Under the auspices of
and at Clarence E. Green’s Imperial Room, April 6th.—Same game and the
like prize-money. In playing off, Catton won by 600 to 478, but Spinks
topped the shortstop record with a run of 197. Maggioli’s 28 is either a
losing average or an error. Average of tournament, 14.65.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Spinks 5 167 18.18 15.50
Catton 5 158 23.50 16.75
Sutton 4 169 30.77 21.10
McLaughlin 3 99 17.39 13.33
Gallagher 2 95 21. 15.50
Maggioli 1 107 28. 13.
Matthews 1 118 15. 9.80
* * * * *
=Hugo Kerkau’s American Debut.= Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, July
5–10th.—Purse game, 300 points of 14:2 nightly. K., 1800; Morningstar,
1523.
Same place and terms, July 19–24th.—McLaughlin, 1800; K., 1702.
* * * * *
=First World’s Championship at 18:1.= Madison Square Garden Concert
Hall, N. Y. City, November 20th–December 4th.—Emblem and $1,200 in cash,
both presented by the B. B. C. Co., added to $500 in entrance fees and
to the net receipts. Average of tournament, four 500–point games apiece,
8.89.
W. R. Av. G. A.
G. F. Slosson ($1466.50) 4 97 12.20 9.39
J. Schaefer ($879.90) 3 85 15.45 9.25
F. C. Ives ($586.60) 2 140 31.25 14.95
M. Daly 1 73 8.20 7.18
Geo. Sutton 0 53 6.09
SCHAEFER DEFEATS SLOSSON. Same hall, February 5, 1898.—First match for
championship and $500 a side. Schaefer, 600—7.46—76; Slosson, 596—34.
IVES DEFEATS SCHAEFER. Central Music Hall, Chicago, April 4,
1898.—Second and last match. I., 600—15—91; S., 426—90.
As there was no challenge outstanding, and as Ives declined the emblem
without waiting to qualify as champion, it reverted, under the rules, to
its donors, and there was no 18:1 championship again until December,
1901.
1898.
=Schaefer vs. Slosson.= Opera-house, Hartford, Conn., February
16th.—18:1 purse game. Schaefer, 400—7.84—39; Slosson, 317—59.
* * * * *
=First Handicap at 18:1.= Central Music Hall, Chicago, January
17–22d.—Ives and Schaefer playing 400 to the 260 of Sutton, Catton, and
Spinks. Schaefer’s defeat of Ives by 22, coupled with his own defeat at
the hands of Spinks by 262, caused a tie between the “scratchmen,” who
divided first and second moneys, as Spinks and Catton did the fourth
prize. The B. B. C. Co. had added $1,750 to the entrance fees. Average
of tournament, 14.57.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Schaefer ($787.50) 3 138 40. 18.85
Ives ($787.50) 3 136 28.71 24.28
Sutton ($450) 2 73 17.65 13.85
Catton ($112.50) 1 56 9.38 6.75
Spinks ($112.50) 1 48 10.82 8.23
* * * * *
=Roomkeepers’ New Handicap Championship.= Philadelphia, April 4th.—Match
won by Edward Burris (225—5.—28) from Sol Allinger, who played for 175.
* * * * *
=Knickerbocker A. C. Championship.= N. Y. City, April.—14:2. Making best
single and general, 9.67 and 7.50, Byron Stark won, Dr. A. B. Miller,
Dr. L. L. Mial and F. Poggenburg finishing as named.
* * * * *
=Amateur Athletic Union Handicap.= Knickerbocker A. C., N. Y. City,
May.—14:2. Order at close: Mial (250), Stark (300), Miller (250), J. A.
Hendrick (270), Clement Bainbridge (260), and L. A. Servatius (250).
Best single, general, and run: 9.09—6.37—64, by Stark.
* * * * *
=Amateur 14:2 Handicap.= Ives’s Room, N. Y. City, November 2–9th.—Won by
Florian Tobias (215) from Messrs. Stark, Mial, and Poggenburg (all three
at 300), Wm. Gershel (240), and Wm. Arnold, Dr. W. G. Douglas, and L. A.
Servatius (all at 200). Arnold was second, and Stark third.
* * * * *
=A. A. U.’s First Class B Tournament.= Knickerbocker A. C., beginning
December 5th.—300–point games, 14:2. All the singles except Stark’s and
possibly Miller’s are either losing averages or slightly inaccurate in
their fractions.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Stark 6 47 10.34 7.74
Taylor 4 71 7.56 5.42
Smith 4 64 6.97 5.50
Poggenburg 3 48 7.60 5.42
Miller 2 33 5. 4.13
G. E. Hevner 1 29 5.79 4.67
J. A. Hendrick 1 32 4.63 3.92
Al Taylor, of Chicago, won play-off from J. De Mun Smith, of St. Louis.
Approximate average of tournament, 5.25. Figures are not at hand to test
whether or not the general averages of Taylor and Poggenburg were
exactly alike. If they were, it was the first known case (see
Metropolitan Championship, 1900, and “Another Tie in General Averages,”
1903).
1899.
=A. A. U.’s First Class A Tournament.= Knickerbocker Club, N. Y. City,
February 13–18th.—Doubled 400–point games of 14:2, anchor barred, for an
unchallengeable championship trophy presented by the B. B. C. Co. Martin
Mullen, of Cleveland, lost none but opening game, and that to Wayman C.
McCreery, of St. Louis, who won no other. Wilson P. Foss, of Haverstraw,
N. Y., second.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Mullen 3 73 10.26 8.30
Foss 2 133 12.25 8.27
McCreery 1 139 13.33 9.16
Average of tournament, 8.56.
* * * * *
=Liederkranz Amateur Trophy.= Liederkranz Society’s Room, N. Y. City,
May.—300 points of 14:2 nightly, best in five, J. F. Poggenburg,
averaging 12 in one session, won three, and J. Byron Stark two.
* * * * *
=Straight Rail vs. 8:2 Balkline Revived.= Amateur handicap, Foley’s
Room, Chicago, March.—Al Taylor and Griffith played the line for 250
against the unlimited three-ball game of Gray (250), Cochrane, Harris,
and the younger Foley (all at 180), McKay and Atwater (both 140), Rawson
(130), and Wilder (120). Taylor, winning by 9—0, had highest general
average (5.86), second-best run (74), and second-best single average
(7.81), the highest run and single by a “railer” being the 126 and 13.85
of Foley, who got second place on 7—2. Atwater (6—3) third, and the
veteran McKay (5—4) fourth.
* * * * *
=Schaefer vs. Slosson at 18:1.= Lenox Lyceum, N. Y. City, May
13th.—First of match of two games, each for $500 a side (see Cushion
Caroms, May 22, for second). Schaefer, 600—13.64—139; Slosson, 418—62.
* * * * *
=First Tournament National Association Amateur Billiard Players.= These
were two sets of handicap 14:2 games, both one as to the main prize (the
Daly-Slosson Cup), but independent as to the two sets of other prizes.
Poggenburg won at G. F. Slosson’s Room, beginning November 13th, and
Keeney at Maurice Daly’s, ending December 15th. The records of the two
tournaments are given side by side.
W. R. Av. G. A.
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Poggenburg, 300 5 2 70 40 9.68 5.66 7.21 5.20
Stark, 300 3 3 77 63 10.34 10.79 7.77 6.78
Keeney, 280 3 5 72 44 9.03 6.83 6.15 6.10
Townsend, 280 2 3 61 48 8. 7.37 5.70 5.29
Muldaur, 220 2 2 36 31 5.64 4.78 4.52 3.73
Arnold, 220 0 0 23 19 3.09 3.17
Approximate average of whole play at Slosson’s, 5.75; at Daly’s, 4.32;
of both combined, 5.30.
Play-off for the Daly-Slosson Cup, December 19–20th: P., 600—6.82—44;
K., 439—33.
* * * * *
=A. A. U.’s Second Class B Tournament.= Knickerbocker A. C., N. Y. City,
December—300 points, 14:2. This and all later ones given under authority
of the A. A. U. were not strictly invitation tournaments, the box-office
being open to the public. A. G. Cutler’s run of 74 does not properly
belong to this series of games, having been accomplished by reason of
his preliminarily playing in more games than some others. Threshie,
Smith and Kellogg’s singles are winning ones.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Threshie 5 74 10.34 7.65
Smith 4 72 11.11 6.19
Kellogg 3 49 7.50 5.58
Hendrick 2 52 6.81 4.98
Cutler 1 74 6.31 5.42
Hevner 0 36 3.67
Tournament’s approximate average, 5.55.
* * * * *
=Chicago Amateur Handicap.= Foley’s Room, December.—14:2. Harris (145),
9—0; Al Taylor (300), 7—2; Levine (145), 6—3; and Lang, Atwater, and the
younger Foley (severally 200, 135, and 170), all 5—4. Best single and
general averages and highest runs were 7.14—6.20—66 by Taylor, and
6.10—4.—56 by Nolan (250), who won but two games.
1900.
=A. A. U.’s Second Class A Tournament.= Knickerbocker A. C., February
5–16th.—400–point games, 14:2, anchor barred, for championship Silver
Cup given by the B. B. C. Co., to become the property of anyone winning
it thrice.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Foss 5 115 14.29 10.64
McCreery 4 68 14.81 9.59
Smith 3 54 8.51 7.50
Threshie 2 79 12.90 7.99
Mial 1 80 7.41 6.32
Conklin 0 44 5.68
Average of tournament, 7.95.
* * * * *
=Metropolitan Amateur Championship of 14:2.= First tournament held by
Hanover Club, and second participated in by the N. A. A. B. P.,
Brooklyn, N. Y., March 12–17th. Average of tournament, 6.57.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Poggenburg 3 49 8.33 7.20
Keeney 2 45 8.57 6.58
Townsend 1 33 5.77 5.52
Stark 0 64 6.58
The remarkable features were presented of three players, Stark, Keeney,
and Poggenburg, having the same total innings (125), of Stark and Keeney
with 821 points each, and of their also tieing on general average for
the first time known to us in a demonstrated way.
* * * * *
=Roomkeepers’ Championship of Philadelphia.= This time without a
handicap, it began May 3d in a tournament at 14:2. Merrick Levy won it,
but had to average 4.88 against John Cline to do so. John Thornton was
second.
* * * * *
=A. G. Cutler vs. Chas. Threshie.= Hub Billiard Palace, Boston, May 9th,
10th, 11th.—Match at 14:2. C., 1000—6.17—48; T., 998—51. The pair had
the rating then of amateurs.
* * * * *
=Cook County Amateur Championship.= What with tournament bouts and
challenge matches as a sequel, W. P. Mussey’s memorable Chicago 14:2
series lasted this year from February 26th to August 15th. That four out
of the nine in the tournament met on even terms tended largely to
overcome the logical objection to handicapping as a championship factor.
The table below exhibits a winning average of 9.68 for one “scratch,” as
well as a general average of 7.10. The challenge matches were always
interesting, and often impressive, as when, with a run of 76 and an
average of 10.34, Conklin took the emblem from Kellogg. McGinniss, like
Kellogg, Brown, and Dr. Parker, lost half his tournament games; but he
made amends by winning his whole six matches, thus acquiring ownership
of the “Mussey Medal,” in the final match for which, August 15th, he
averaged 7.50 against Adams.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Harley Parker, 225 4 52 6.82 3.86
R. J. McGinniss, 300 4 52 9.68 7.10
C. F. Conklin, 300 7 47 7.68 6.
A. J. Brown, 225 4 41 5.11 3.80
W. W. Kellogg, 300 4 44 6.38 5.54
J. D. Adams, 225 7 44 5.92 4.31
T. J. Nolan, 250 2 35 4.90 4.15
B. S. Bingham, 200 3 36 5.74 3.69
C. S. Schmitt, 300 1 51 5.88 4.80
In beating Conklin by 225 to 232 on the tie, Adams averaged 5.77, and
Kellogg reached 5.88 in depriving Adams of the championship in the very
first match. Expressed in a round way, the average of the tournament was
4.80.
* * * * *
=Doubled Tournament Games at Daly’s.= N. Y. City, October
15–20th.—Handicap at 14:2. Gallagher (400), 4—0; Morningstar (250), 3—1;
Howison (200), 3—1. Highest runs, winning averages and general averages:
M., 73—9.62—7.78; H., 39—10—6.07; G., 84—general, 12.55. Playing off
tie, Howison won by 2 points on an average of 8.78.
* * * * *
=Clubmen Made Desperate by Ties.= October.—The 14:2 tournament of the
Olympic Club, San Francisco, ended in a first-place tie of four out of
seven—Dr. O. B. Burns, F. L. Taylor, J. J. Roggan, and W. Franklin. The
first three tied again, shutting out Franklin; and after tieing again
and again, they played once three-handed, which summarily cut the
Gordian knot thus—Taylor, Burns, and Roggan. In the tournament proper,
Burns had made high average (5.77), and Franklin the high run (42).
* * * * *
=Revival of 8:2 in New Orleans.= Capt. John Miller’s Room, October 22d
to November 16th.—Louis Abrams and George H. Miller, the two
“scratchmen,” were first and second among six. Best runs and averages:
Abrams’s 8.33 and 46, and Miller’s 7.14 and 57.
Following week, same game, match for $50, best in three nights. Abrams
made the more points, but Miller won the three nights, averaging 5.88 as
his best, and running 48 to Abrams’s 29 for high.
* * * * *
=Knickerbocker A. C.’s Championship of 14:2.= N. Y. City, beginning
December 26th and recordable chiefly because of the winner’s having the
unexampled privilege of “keeping warm” in the depth of winter by playing
all his games one after another without interregnum, which necessarily
had to deprive the remaining games of interest. Contestants: Chas. S.
Norris, J. A. Hendrick, Dr. A. B. Miller, Dr. L. L. Mial, and Albro
Akin. Best general average, 5.77 by the winner-in-chief, Norris.
1901.
=Championship of the N. A. A. B. P.= First tournament, under the
patronage of the Hanover Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., for the Brooklyn Eagle’s
Gold Cup, but the third annual one of the Association, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
January 14–26th. Arthur R. Townsend won play-off. Average of tournament,
5.96. Three tied on high run, and the other three were not far from
virtually tieing on general average. Such closeness, practicable for any
grade of performers at any form of cushion caroms, is phenomenal at 14:2
balkline for players of the speed of these.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Townsend 4 69 8.11 6.26
Keeney 4 46 7.32 6.04
E. W. Gardner 3 52 8.33 6.80
Stark 3 50 7.89 5.83
Poggenburg 1 50 9.68 5.85
F. C. Gardner 0 50 4.71
* * * * *
=A. A. U.’s Third Annual Class A Championship Tournament.= Knickerbocker
Club, N. Y. City, February 5–15th.—At 14:2. Average of tournament, four
400–point games apiece, 6.39.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Conklin 4 52 8.70 7.55
Threshie 3 47 7.41 7.37
Hendrick 1 40 5.33 5.03
Mial 1 63 6.56 6.39
McKee 1 60 7.30 5.85
In the play-off, Mial made the best run and single average (89 and
8.16), both in defeating McKee.
As winner-in-chief, Conklin on February 16th played Foss, holder of the
A. A. U.’s championship. F., 400—10.87—69; C., 262—43.
* * * * *
=Morningstar vs. Howison.= Maurice Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, beginning
February 18th.—Six nights’ purse game at 14:2, even up. M.,
1800—8.78—92; H., 1761—76.
* * * * *
=Progressive Billiards.= City Athletic Club, Toronto, Can., February
23d.—Game so called, ten members on each side, using five tables with
four players apiece. Messrs. White and McDonald made highest and lowest
individual scores—177 and 37.
* * * * *
=Three-handed Doubled Games.= Daly’s, N. Y. City, March 18–23d.—Handicap
purse tournament at 14:2. Morningstar (300)—1122—23.08—183; Gallagher
(400)—1158—19.05—75; McLaughlin (400)—1414—20.—92. G. A.—M., 14.20;
McL., 13.09; G., 12.12.
* * * * *
=Competition by Telegraph.= March 26th.—14:2, St. Louis and Cleveland,
Wayman C. McCreery playing in John Lacari’s room and Martin Mullen in
Ed. M. Helm’s. Runs, etc., wired to and fro. Averages not announced.
Totals and highest runs: M., 500—80; McC., 471—53. McCreery, who
suggested this experimental contest, proposed to spot at every inning.
As the St. Louisan later wrote _The Weekly Billiardist_: “Mullen thought
that too easy, and amended by commencing in the ordinary way, viz.,
playing on the far ball, then playing with still ball for five innings,
then respotting,” and so on.
* * * * *
=“The Mussey Handicap.”= Mussey’s Room, Chicago, ending May 7th.—Amateur
14:2 tournament for gold watch and chain. Messrs. Adams, Kurtz,
Gerhardt, and Miehle, severally in at 240, 200, 215, and 200, were
trailers in that order. The other five, with their handicaps, best
single averages and highest runs, were Ed. Rein (230)—6.76—52; Dr.
Harley Parker (230)—5.90—65; W. W. Kellogg (275)—8.60—45; C. F. Conklin
(300)—8.57—49; and H. A. Coleman, of Milwaukee (300)—6.25—36. The two
postmen, Conklin and Coleman, won 5—3 each, while Rein and Parker, third
heaviest weight-carriers, but first and second winners, won 7 to 1 and 6
to 2.
* * * * *
=Morningstar vs. Jose Ortiz, of Spain.= Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, May,
five nights’ purse game of 14:2. M., 1500—10.49—83; O., 1032—68.
* * * * *
=C. F. Conklin’s Lofty Average.= A. M. Clarke’s 14:2 handicap, Chicago,
closing May 29th.—Leaders were Conklin (250 and unbeaten), 15.60—run,
67; Brown (175), 5.67—33; Morin (175), 6.50—38. The latter two tied in
games with 5 up and 2 down, and Brown won play-off by 18.
* * * * *
=John Miller’s Plexus, or Bunch of Ties.= New Orleans, 14:2 handicap,
ending October 2d.—Of seven entries, Abrams (160), G. H. Miller (160),
and Zaehringer (140), tied in high run (31), as also did Van Gelder and
Peterson (120 each) on 21, while there were two ties for first prize,
Abrams winning play-off, and three for fourth.
* * * * *
=Gallagher vs. Ortiz.= Daly’s, N. Y.; October 7–11th.—14:2 purse game.
G., 1500—11.54—82; O., 913 (with 250 odds)—58.
* * * * *
=Daly Handicap at 18:2.= N. Y. City, October 21–26th, and Willie Hoppe’s
first in tournament, which was for purse. Handicap, best winning and
general averages, and highest run, individually: Hoppe (200),
10.—8.81—54; Morningstar (300), 12.—12.75—59; McLaughlin (300),
15.79—13.79—89; Gallagher (300), 11.11—9.50—75; Ortiz (225), 5.22 (gen.
av.)—49. Hoppe and Ortiz reversed in games, 4—0 to 0—4, and the other
three, tieing at 2—1, tied again, and then divided.
* * * * *
=Chicago Handicap at 14:2.= Foley’s Room, October 18 to December
9th.—Amateur contestants—Harris and Kent, 200; Cochrane and Sorenson,
175; Miller, 160; Dethke, 145; Ballard, 135; Gunther and Shute, 130.
Outcome—Harris, Ballard, Sorenson and Cochrane. High runs, with averages
of both kinds: 49—5.26—4.00, by Harris. Miller’s 44 was second in runs.
* * * * *
=Second World’s Championship at 18:1.= Madison Square Garden Concert
Hall, N. Y. City, December 2–10th.—Tournament for jeweled badge and
$2,000 in cash added by the B. B. C. Co. to $1,500 in entrance fees and
net receipts. This was the public début of Leon Barutel, Orlando
Morningstar, and Leonard Howison in first-class company. Tournament’s
average, five 400–point games apiece, 6.61.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Schaefer 5 68 12.50 7.78
Slosson 3 45 10.26 7.58
Barutel 3 42 8.70 6.19
Sutton 2 64 13.79 9.26
Morningstar 1 62 9.52 5.21
Howison 1 35 5.32 4.84
Instead of any contest, there were three challenges for this emblem.
Sutton, who challenged twice, claimed it the latter time, and it was
awarded to him on October 30, 1903, in default of Schaefer’s covering
forfeit. (See March 4, 1904, and January and March, 1906).
* * * * *
=Championship of the Northwest at 14:2.= Played for on a 4½ × 9 table in
Duluth, Fargo, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, November. Emblematic cup
presented by B. B. C. Co.
W. R. Av. G. A.
W. F. Hatley 5 85 14.40 10.33
G. E. Spears 4 86 15. 8.33
C. Peterson 2 60 7.90 6.12
Chas. Clow 1 33 5.80 4.67
* * * * *
=Schaefer vs. Barutel at 18:2.= Frank A. Keeney’s Knickerbocker Academy,
Brooklyn, N. Y., December 19–21st, three nights’ purse game. S.,
1800—16.90—85; B., 946—58.
1902.
=Last Class B. Tournament of A. A. U.= Knickerbocker Club, N. Y. City,
winter of 1901–2.—Game, 14:2. Instead of by games, this tournament was
to be decided by best general averages in case of tie for first place.
A. G. Cutler, W. W. Kellogg, and J. A. Hendrick tied, and Cutler was
winner on average. Other contestants were Frank Billiter, of
Minneapolis, C. S. Schmitt, of Chicago, and W. A. Paige, of Boston, all
new to this series of games.
* * * * *
=Second Tournament for “Brooklyn Eagle” Gold Cup.= Brooklyn, N. Y.,
January 13–18th, under patronage of Hanover Club and under auspices of
the N. A. A. B. P. Four games apiece, 300 points, 14:2. Average of
tournament, 5.32. Uniformity of runs and general averages is remarkable
for players of their speed.
W. R. Av. G. A.
E. W. Gardner 4 52 6.12 5.48
Townsend 2 39 6.25 5.20
Stark 2 37 8.82 5.15
Poggenburg 1 40 6.52 5.88
F. Gardner 1 38 5.26 5.13
* * * * *
=Championship of France at 18:2.= Grand Hotel, Paris, February,
500–point games.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Cure 2 156 17.86 16.65
Fournil 2 131 31.25 27.73
Vignaux 2 175 50. 20.46
Gibelin 0 70 13.33
Average of tournament, 18.22. The three ties were determined in the same
hall in March, and placed Cure first, Fournil second, and Vignaux third.
* * * * *
=Third and Last Annual for the A. A. U. Championship.= Knickerbocker
Club, N. Y. City, February.—Average of tournament, six games apiece,
5.75.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Chas. Norris 5 62 8.89 6.55
W. H. Sigourney 5 64 7.02 5.50
L. L. Mial 4 90 9.09 7.28
C. F. Conklin 3 45 8.51 6.03
Chas. Threshie 2 52 9.55 5.78
J. A. Hendrick 1 34 7.84 4.60
Dr. A. B. Miller 1 42 4.88 4.71
Chas. S. Schmitt played in the opening game, was beaten by Sigourney
(400 to 251, average 8.70), and then withdrew, Sigourney losing the
credit both of his victory and of his highest average, instead of
Schmitt’s forfeiting his other games. (See “Revival of Cushion Caroms,”
1903.)
Mial alone beat Sigourney, and Sigourney was the only one who beat
Norris (55 in 400). In playing off, Norris won by 25.
February 19, as chief winner, Norris played Wilson P. Foss, who was 100
when Norris was 71, 153 when he was 211, 237 when he was 307, and winner
when he was 464. F., 500—6.85—52; N., 464—70. The B. B. C. Co.’s
Challenge Cup then became the property of Foss, he having won it in
tournament in 1900, defended it in 1901 match with Conklin, and now in
match against another Chicagoan.
* * * * *
=Adorjan vs. Morningstar.= Daly’s, N. Y. City, May 26–30th.—300 a night,
18:2. A., 1500—17.08—105; M., 929—80.
On the final night, the winner made double figures in ten innings out of
his twelve—something whose like probably cannot be matched at any style
of game, whether free three-ball or full four-ball. These were
successive in the last eight—27, 17, 21, 35, 23, 76, 46, 26.
* * * * *
=Championship of St. Paul and Minneapolis.= Doubled 300–point games of
14:2, 4½ × 9, closing May 28th.
W. R. Av. G. A.
C. Ferris 3 77 10.34 9.15
J. W. Carney 2 87 10.34 8.20
G. E. Spears 1 55 [11] 8.44
Footnote 11:
The one winning average by Spears is lacking.
* * * * *
=Championship of Minnesota at 14:2.= Opened at Ryan Hotel, St. Paul,
June 16th.—300 points, 4½ × 9.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Ferris 3 77 12.50 9.28
Carney 1 65 10.71 7.94
C. Clow 1 35 6.96 7.90
Spears 1 61 11.11 9.35
* * * * *
=New England Championship at 18:2.= Boston, Mass., March 25–27th.—Match
announced as above (although no tournament had been held), Maxime
Thomas, then of Worcester, Mass., vs. A. G. Cutler, Boston. C.,
1000—av., 11.90; T., 862. Chief runs not high.
* * * * *
=Julius Adorjan, of Hungary, vs. McLaughlin.= Daly’s Room, N. Y. City,
May 12–16th.—300 points at 18:2. A., 1500—18.29—118; McL., 1294—120.
Average of the whole play, 17.15 in 2794 points.
* * * * *
=Pittsburg, Penn., Handicap at 14:2.= Great Northern Billiard Parlors,
ending May 15th.—Won by James English, who was “scratch” with Messrs.
Marshall (second prize), Phillippi and Roberts. The two last mentioned
tied with Beymer for third, without playing off. English made the best
single average (4), as well as the best run (33), which, however, was
equaled by one other. Messrs. Powers, Jack and Billings were the
remaining contestants.
* * * * *
=Chicago 14:2 Handicap.= Foley’s, May 12th to July 12th.—Miller (150)
first with 7 up and 2 down, and Rein, Kent, Brown, and Hale,
respectively at 250, 210, 210, and 140, were tied with 6—3 for from
second to fifth. Rein was highest in averages and run, 7.58—5.33—45, and
Kent next with 5.53—4.34—41.
* * * * *
=Amateur Class B Championship of Pacific.= Waldorf Café, San Francisco,
July 12th to August 12th.—Games, 150 up, 14:2. Won by J. J. Roggan, who
had beaten Frank Pecchart, the favorite, by 1 point in tournament
proper, and beat him by 44 in playing off. With no higher run than 16 in
the game by which he won third prize, Frank Whitney made best average,
5.17. Pecchart’s 36 was best run of all. The other players were Dr. O.
B. Burns, Henry White, Frank Dubois, and Dr. W. E. Davis.
* * * * *
=Championship of the Northwest.= St. Louis Hotel, Minn., October
1st.—Wm. F. Hatley vs. G. E. Spears, 14:2 on 4½ × 9. H., 300—13.04—44;
S., 165—31.
* * * * *
=Waldorf Café Handicap at 14:2.= San Francisco, November.—Class B
amateur tournament. Dr. O. B. Burns won his whole six games, while H. A.
Wright, the one “scratchman,” carrying a weight of from 16.67 to 36.67
per cent. more than his opponents, failed twice in his six trials, and
tied with Messrs. Coffin and Carcass for second, third, and fourth
prizes. The other contestants were Messrs. Howe, De Sola, and H. W.
White. Wright made highest single and general averages and best run,
10.34—5.67—58.
1903.
=Fast Play by Chicago Amateurs.= December 29, 1902, to March 18th.—Thos.
Foley’s annual winter handicap. Six ran past 40.
W. R. Av.
Conklin, 300 6 58 7.30
Rein, 250 10 74 12.50
Harris, 215 4 44 7.17
Brown, 215 4 46 7.97
Lang, 215 2 24 3.47
Kent, 215 6 50 6.94
Cochrane, 190 4 32 4.22
Miller, 165 4 56 4.23
Adair, 150 3 23 4.29
Ballard, 150 6 20 3.75
Hale, 150 6 37 4.84
* * * * *
=G. E. Spears vs. Wm. Ryle.= Kansas City, January 12–14th, Minneapolis,
January 19–21st.—At 14:2. S., 3000—7.—75; R., 2447—45. April, 1904: S.,
1800—73; R., 1493.
* * * * *
=Third Tournament for “Brooklyn Eagle” Gold Cup.= Brooklyn, N. Y.,
February 2–13th.—Under patronage of Hanover Club, 300 points nightly,
14:2. Game that directly caused a tie: W. P. Foss, 300—10.—67; E. W.
Gardner, 280—31. Play-off, February 14th—F., 300—15.—73; G., 149—38. Tie
of four not played off. Average of tournament, 7.87.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Foss 5 82 18.75 12.13
Gardner 5 58 12. 8.72
Conklin 3 59 10.34 6.80
Poggenburg 2 71 9.38 7.51
Stark 2 47 7.69 6.77
Townsend 2 59 8.57 7.41
Mial 2 79 8.11 7.31
Gardner lost only to Foss, and Foss to none but Conklin, who then made
his best average.
Of the three—Townsend, Gardner, and Foss—having an equal lien upon this
championship, the last declined to compete in the tournament of 1904,
which see.
* * * * *
=Townsend vs. Conklin.= Knickerbocker Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., February
16–19th.—14:2 for a jewel trophy offered by Frank A. Keeney. T.,
1000—7.11; C., 918. Neither surpassed his high run in tourney that led
to the match.
* * * * *
=First World’s Championship of 18:2.= Grand Hotel, Paris, France,
February 15–20th.—Tournament for emblem and $1,000 in cash, both given
by the B. B. C. Co., and added to entrance fees and net receipts.
Average of tournament, 17.47. Games, 500 points up.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Cure 2 113 20.83 19.76
Sutton 2 200 31.25 20.81
Vignaux 2 136 23.81 22.29
Slosson 0 71 8.49
Weeks before play began, the four entered into a parole agreement to
play off ties, as well as to divide the net receipts equally. Months
before that, the first three had signed a document requiring all ties to
be determined by the general averages, and specifying as prizes only the
emblem, the given money, and the entrance fees. At the conclusion of the
final game (Vignaux vs. Cure), it was announced that ties would be
played off in the same hall, beginning February 25th. Vignaux declined
to play off, claiming to have won on general average, and carrying the
case into court. Litigation lasted nine months, the claimant being
awarded the championship in his first suit, but denied the equal share
in the receipts forming the basis of his second.
All matches are for the jeweled emblem and $500 a side, 500 points up.
The first was also the last of this series.
=Vignaux vs. Sutton.= Grand Hotel, Paris, January 29, 1904. V.,
500—19.23—148; S., 496—128.
* * * * *
=Another Tie in General Averages.= Yearly championship of the N. Y. A.
C. at 14:2, closing February 26th.—Dr. Walter G. Douglas had for years
been the club’s champion at both caroms and pool (beaten at the latter
this year), and the tournament of 1903 is given only because of the
rarity of an exact tie in general averages, which might not have
occurred, however, had not Percy Gardner forfeited to J. V. B. Rapp.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Douglas 3 32 4.80 4.41
Rapp 2 38 5.21 4.41
Kinsman 1 22 3.33 2.86
Gardner 0 15 2.42 1.94
=Philadelphia Amateur Championship at 14:2.= Hall of Philadelphia A. C.,
closing March 27th.—Won by T. Mortimer Rolls, Belmont Cricket Club, who
had also won in 1902, when this championship was instituted by the
Schuylkill Navy. R. won by 7—0, and in one game averaged 4.79. With 5—2,
J. E. Cape Morton (av., 4.38) and C. A. Shedaker tied for second and
third, Morton losing play-off by 250 to 162. Over 4,000 persons saw the
tourney in whole or part.
* * * * *
=Armless Sutton vs. Gallagher.= Given 300 in 1500 at Clarence Greens,
March 16–20th, and 600 in 3000 at Maurice Daly’s, March 23–27th, and
losing by 653 in N. Y. City, but by only 89 in Brooklyn, George H.
Sutton made first formal appearance in the East.
* * * * *
=Amateur Championship of Twin Cities=, Minneapolis and St. Paul. West
Hotel, March.—14:2 on 4½ × 9. Parker won by 6—0, with highest single
average, 5.72. Thayer was second. Huyck made highest run, 51.
* * * * *
=Amateur Championship of France and Belgium.= National Academy of
Amateurs (El Dorado), Paris, France, March and April, games 400 points,
18:2. Eight entries, MM. Rérolle, Rasquinet, R. Maure, Lejeune, Fouquet,
Naves, Nélys, and Comte de Drée. First and second winners were Rérolle
of Toulouse, and Rasquinet, then an army officer in Brussels. One scored
2800, not losing a game, and the other, beaten only by Rérolle (400 to
391), 2791. Against Rasquinet, opponents scored 2319; against Rérolle,
but 1485. The highest runs, allowing only one for each player per game,
were 109, 103, 87, 73, 73, 61, and 55 for Rérolle, and 91, 67, 63, 42,
41, 30, and 27 for Rasquinet. In single winning averages, Rasquinet
reached double figures but twice, viz., 10, and 10.50, while Rérolle
reached them in every game, viz., 11.70, 14.60, 14.80, 14.80, 15.30,
17.30, and 33.33 (Lejeune in this game scored but 64 altogether). The
general averages, as forwarded from Paris, were 17.40 and 10.10 for
Rérolle and Rasquinet; but their single averages, as forwarded, together
with their total points per game, show their general averages to have
been 15.91 and 9.83.
* * * * *
=Pittsburg, Penn., Handicap.= Great Northern Room, April and May.—At
4.2, and probably on a 4½ × 9. Bennie (185) tied Poland (170), 5—1 in
games each, for first prize ($100), and won play-off. Phillippi (185)
beat English (200) for third and fourth after tieing at 4—2. English,
who won the series in 1892, this year made best winning average (5.56),
first against Poland and next against Jack. Powers and Miller were the
other two players.
* * * * *
=Pacific Coast Class B Amateurs.= Jas. F. Morley’s Rooms, San Francisco,
June and July.—14:2 championship. Won by Frank Pecchart, Frank Coffin
second. The pair having tied, P. won play-off by 200 to 127, averaging
5.26.
* * * * *
=Chas. Ferris vs. Al Taylor.= West Hotel, Minneapolis, October.—Three
nights of 14:2 on a 4½ × 9, purse game. F., 1200—19.67—112; T.,
1008—105.
* * * * *
=High Amateur Averages.= Maurice Daly’s, N. Y. City, ending October
26th.—Ferdinand Poggenburg and Dr. L. L. Mial going 300 to Wm. Gershel’s
250, doubled games of 14:2.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Poggenburg 4 119 17.65 11.11
Gershel 2 33 8.93 5.97
Mial 0 51 7.86
* * * * *
=Championship of the Northwest.= Fargo, N. D., Duluth and Minneapolis,
Minn., ending November 13th.—For cash prizes and a challenge emblem
presented by the B. B. C. Co. Doubled games of 14:2, 300 points, on a
4½ × 9 table. Average of tournament, 10.03.
W. R. Av. G. A.
W. F. Hatley 6 88 21.43 13.81
F. Billiter 5 94 13.64 10.67
G. Spears 5 67 15. 9.89
C. Peterson 3 70 14.29 10.04
C. Ferris 1 91 17.65 9.06
* * * * *
=J. W. Carney vs. George Kenniston.= Hoffman Billiard Parlors, Los
Angeles, Cal., November 18–20th.—Purse game, 14:2. C., 1000—7.60—50; K.,
953—45.
* * * * *
=McLaughlin vs. Gillette.= Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, December 1–3d.—Purse
game, 18:2. McL., 1000—13.16—100; G., 485—38.
* * * * *
=Brooklyn Amateur Tournament at 14:2.= Keeney’s Knickerbocker Academy,
ending December 14th.—200–point games. Won by C. B. Barker, who made
high run and average—41 and 8.70. In playing off ties for second and
third prizes, C. E. White beat Dr. H. D. Jennings. Other contestants
were Frank Boyd and L. A. Servatius.
* * * * *
=Amateur Tournament at 14:2.= Metropolitan Academy, N. Y. City, games of
200 points, ending December 15th.—Won by L. A. Servatius in playing off
ties with Messrs. Bennett and Farley. Servatius averaged 4.65 in
defeating Farley. J. H. Millette made high run—39.
* * * * *
=Eames vs. Cutler.= Hub Billiard Parlors, Boston, November 3–5th.—400
points nightly, 18:2, $250 a side. E., 1200—15.19—124; C., 1021—84. The
remote cause of this contest was that Cutler, having withdrawn from the
amateur ranks, had the year before, in Boston, while Eames was in
Denver, Col., played and won from Thomas, formerly of Montreal, a
balkline match of multiple nights announced as for the championship of
New England.
1904
=First American Amateur Tournament at 18:2.= Daly’s, N.Y. City,
beginning January 4th. Handicap.
W. R. Av. G. A.
J. F. Poggenburg (300) 3 58 10. 8.41
Dr. L. L. Mial (300) 2 60 8.57 8.51
Wm. Gershel (250) 1 27 4.15 5.13
F. M. Canda (225) 0 26 3.71
* * * * *
=First Match for 18:2 Championship of the World.= See Vignaux vs.
Sutton, January 29, 1904, under February, 1903.
* * * * *
=Pittsburg, Pa., Handicap at 14:2.= Great Northern Billiard Hall,
January 11–26th.—4½ × 9 table. First to fourth, Messrs. Bennie, Jack,
Powers, and Brown. Bennie, the only “scratchman,” made highest run and
best average—36 and 6.90.
* * * * *
=Chicago Handicap at 14:2.= A. M. Clarke’s Room, ending January 28th.—J.
M. Miller (175), first in field of ten, winning every game. C. F.
Conklin (300), beaten only by Miller (175 to 213), made highest run
(112) and best average (12). John Daly, who also was at 300, won only a
game or two.
* * * * *
=Fourth Annual Gold Cup Championship.= Under patronage of the German
Liederkranz Society and the N. A. A. B. P. Held in the minor hall of the
German Liederkranz Society, N. Y. City, February 1–13th.—Game, 300
points, 14:2, Arthur Marcotte, of Quebec, representing Canada; C. F.
Conklin, Chicago; J. De Munn Smith, St. Louis; E. W. Gardner, New
Jersey; and Dr. L. L. Mial, Arthur Townsend, and J. Ferdinand
Poggenburg, N. Y. City. Prizes: First, the “Brooklyn Eagle” Gold Cup
(contingent upon three winnings, consecutive or non-consecutive) and a
royal Dresden vase (absolute); second, silver punchbowl and ladle;
third, marble statue of “Night”; fourth, a camera; for high run, an
ornate clock, with candelabra; for best single average, a cut-glass wine
set, with silver tray. Average of tournament, six games apiece, 6.66.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Poggenburg 5 73 13.64 8.56
Mial 5 73 10. 7.39
Gardner 4 64 9.68 6.75
Conklin 3 68 13.04 8.41
Townsend 2 60 9.09 5.98
Smith 1 50 6.82 5.62
Marcotte 1 35 3.90 4.67
Tie game, February 13th: Poggenburg, 300—9.68—41; Mial, 185—31. By
agreement, high run in this game also determined the tie as to high run
of tournament.
Four players now have equal claims upon the Gold Cup, viz., Messrs.
Townsend, Gardner, Foss, and Poggenburg, severally as winners of the
tournaments of 1901, 1902, 1903, and 1904.
* * * * *
=Championship of “The Young Masters.”= Salle Scribe, Grand Hotel, Paris,
France, beginning January 31st. Tournament at 18:2 (in reality, 45
centimetres, or 17¾ in.), 400–point games. There were ten in at the
outset, but Jose Ortiz, of Spain, and Mons. Payan, of France, appear not
to have played, while Juan Alvarez, of Spain, and Al Taylor and Joseph
Capron, of Chicago, seem to have withdrawn after playing two
unsuccessful games apiece. This table, forwarded from Paris, limits
itself to the four games played by every one of the five named therein
after the others had withdrawn.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Willie Hoppe 4 94 17.39 12.80
Manuel Sanchez 3 54 18.18 13.71
Robert Glorieux 2 100 11.76 10.86
Ora Morningstar 1 107 18.18 13.89
Mons. Ducasse 0 52 8.78
We make the average of the final four games apiece, or ten in all, to be
11.82.
As matter of exact record, Hoppe’s best winning average is 20, made in
defeating Taylor by 400 to 164; Morningstar’s 21.05, in defeating Capron
by 400 to 85; and Glorieux’s 12.90, in defeating Taylor by 400 to 310.
The general averages of those known here to have played six games apiece
are: Morningstar, 14.14; Hoppe, 13.66; and Sanchez, 12.36. Omission of
the first two games played by every one of those three affects the
single and general averages somewhat, but not the high runs at all, all
five of the tabulated contestants happening to have made their highest
in their latest four games.
* * * * *
=Boston Class A Amateur Tournament at 14:2.= “The Hub” Academy, closing
about February 26th.—Won by W. A. Paige, who defeated Charles Eaton in
final game by 300 to 260. Table probably 4½ × 9.
* * * * *
=Championship of the World at 18:1.= Paris, France, March 4th.—First
match contest for championship instituted in 1901 and $500 a side.
Maurice Vignaux, 500—12.82—89; Geo. Sutton (as champion), 387—79. (For
later matches, see Jan., March, and Oct., 1906.)
* * * * *
=Brooklyn Amateur Handicap at 14:2.= Keeney’s Knickerbocker Academy,
February and March.—H. Hoxie, H. White, and F. Lowenthal, tied, won
play-offs in that order March 7th, 8th, 9th.
* * * * *
=Fifth Avenue Hotel Amateur Handicap at 14:2.= N. Y. City, ending March
12th.—C. E. White (300), 5—0; E. O. Presby (250), second. In playing off
for third prize, Dr. W. G. Douglas (300) defeated L. A. Servatius (250)
and J. M. Millette (225). F. M. Canda (300), who beat Douglas only, made
highest run of tournament (46), and White the highest single (6.67) and
general average (5.51).
* * * * *
=Interclub Tournament at 14:2.= Arts Club, Philadelphia, February and
March.—Won by T. Mortimer Rolls, of Belmont Cricket Club, who made
highest runs and single averages (94 and 10.87, both against T. R.
Reaney, and 51 and 6.95, both against Dr. C. A. Borda). Other
competitors were Harrison Townsend, Julius J. Hovey, J. E. Cape Morton,
and Dr. Holden.
* * * * *
=Foley’s Chicago Amateur Handicap at 14:2.= Ended March 23d.—J. M.
Miller (155) first, Ed. C. Rein (250) second, and Messrs. Hale and
Cochrane (both 180) tied for third and fourth. Rein made highest run
(76) and best single average (11.36, against Hale, in final game).
* * * * *
=Amateur International Souvenir Match at 18:2.= Theatre of the
Automobile Club of France, Paris, March 29th, 30th, 31st, for an emblem
presented by the B. B. C. Co. Admission by invitation. Lucien Rérolle,
of Toulouse, 1200—12.24—129, 94, 71; W. P. Foss, of Haverstraw, N. Y.,
1153—74, 73, 63.
* * * * *
=Championship of Billiard Club at 14:2.= N. Y. City, ending March 29th
in tie among Dr. A. B. Miller, Florian Tobias, and Dr. W. G. Douglas. Of
the eight contestants, Wm. Gershel made the highest run (65), Douglas
the next highest (51), and Tobias the third highest (50). The highest
average (8.06) was made by both Douglas and Miller.
Miller, in winning both plays-off, ran 52 and averaged 11.36 against
Douglas, this final contest of theirs occurring April 18th. All games
were of 250 points. The 11.36 is Miller’s best performance in a set
competition to date.
* * * * *
=Championship of Minneapolis.= Hotel Vendome, March and April, game 14:2
on a 4½ × 9 table, with seven contestants.—Winner was Hogue, who lost no
game. Logan, who was second, was beaten only by Hogue, and made best
run, single average, and general average, viz., 43, 7.14, and 5.28.
* * * * *
=Interborough Amateur Tournament at 14:2.= Maurice Daly’s Room, N. Y.,
March 28th to April 14th, including ties. All games were 300 up. Average
of tournament, 5.50.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Dr. W. G. Douglas 3 43 6.26 5.60
F. M. Canda 3 42 7.14 6.68
A. Lewenberg 3 40 7.50 6.02
C. B. Barker 1 36 5.45 4.87
C. E. White 0 38 4.04
The playing-off resulted in another tie, Douglas being beaten by
Lewenberg, Canda by Douglas, and Lewenberg by Canda. In beating Canda
for the second time, Douglas averaged 9.68, thus surpassing his best
previous one—8.06 (vide “Championship of Billiard Club at 14:2,” above).
In the second play-off, Douglas beat both Lewenberg and Canda, and the
latter lost to Lewenberg.
* * * * *
=Mussey’s Handicap at 14:2.= Chicago, Ill., March and April, with C. F.
Conklin and R. J. Maginniss at “scratch” (300). Of the other eight, H.
A. Coleman represented Milwaukee, and C. S. Schmitt, once of Chicago,
had latterly moved from Boston, Mass., to Racine, Wis. Messrs. Reinman,
Huntley, Adams, Harley Parker, and George Kent were of the eight
representatives of Chicago. Maginniss, who made best run (89) and best
single average (13.64), was winner-in-chief, with Schmitt second.
Conklin, who made the best general average, was third, and Coleman and
Adams divided fourth and fifth prizes. Maginniss and Conklin played the
final game, April 29, the latter losing. Maginniss was beaten by Kent
only.
* * * * *
=French Amateur Championship of the World at 14:2.= Billiard Palace,
Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, March 7–21st, under the auspices of the
Federation des Sociétés Françaises d’Amateurs de Billard. Unlike that at
18:2, won by Rérolle a year before, this championship is typified in a
Challenge Cup, the gift of the B. B. C. Co. There were twenty-one
entries, but a weeding-out process left but six for the final rounds,
whose fifteen games resulted in these winnings:
Rérolle 5
Darantière 4
Blanc 3
De Drée 2
Maure 1
Cayla 0
Maure forfeited a half-finished game to De Drée. The best runs of the
whole tournament were 111 by Rérolle (in the last game of all, which was
with Darantière, second winner) and 108 by Maure. The third-best run
seems to have been Darantière’s 89. The best winning average was
Rérolle’s 20 against Blanc. As to general averages, there are no
complete figures at hand as to any one of the players; but Rérolle’s was
probably not far below 15. The games were 400 up. A special round of
250–point ones for a consolation prize terminated as follows: Nélys,
3—0; Castel, 2—1; Faroux, 1—2; Lamare, 0—3. In the deciding game of this
round, Nélys vs. Faroux, the former averaged 8.62, with 31 for high run
to 27 for the loser (Faroux).
* * * * *
=San Francisco Handicap at 14:2.= At J. F. Morley’s Room, May 2–19th.—H.
A. Wright, winner-in-chief, averaged 16.67 in one game and 14.85 in all
(1500 points), and ran 101, 95, 84, 76, and 67 for high in his five
games. Wilson H. Sigourney, beaten by Wright and Frank Dubois, had 18.75
for high average, 12.62 in 1426 points for general, and 111, 95, 83, 79,
and 79 for high runs per game. The two general averages are high for
amateurs in this country. Dubois, Frank Coffin, Dr. O. B. Burns, and J.
F. Morley played 150 to the 300 of Wright and Sigourney.
* * * * *
=Jacob Schaefer vs. Louis Cure.= Match at 18:2 for $2000 a side, 500
points nightly, Nouveau Cirque, Paris, France, June 6–11th.—S.,
3000—22.90—166; C., 2988—255.
* * * * *
=Al Taylor vs. John Matthews.= Chicago, September 14th.—Match at 18:2
for $50 a side. T., 400—11.11—61; M., 259—39.
* * * * *
=Ten Games Straight.= Summer handicap at 14:2, Foley’s Room, Chicago,
July 7th to October 3d.—Roney (115) won all his games. Myers (150,
scratch) tied Bevington (140) for second and third, and Bevington
forfeited. Eleven contestants.
* * * * *
=Amateur Handicap at 14:2.= Maurice Daly’s, New York City, October
3–10th.—Winners of the first eight games made an aggregate average of
8.25, which is high for the start of an amateur tournament having as
many as six competitors. After defeating J. Ferd. Poggenburg (scratch,
300) by 240 to 292, and Wm. Gershel by 240 to 188, averaging 8 in the
first game and 8.28 in the second, Albert Brock had to withdraw, and
those games and his unplayed three were canceled. This was Paul Van
Dieman’s first tournament, H. A. Coleman’s first in the East, and Albert
Lewenberg’s first tournamental victory at balkline.
W. R. Av. G. A.
Poggenburg, 300. 3 70 15.79 7.80
Lewenberg, 240. 4 44 8. 6.96
Coleman, 240. 2 36 6.32 5.07
Gershel, 240. 1 39 6.32 5.43
Brock, 240. 2 37 8.25 8.12[12]
Van Dieman. 0 32 4.38
Footnote 12:
Two games only.
* * * * *
=Boston Class B Amateur Championship at 14:2.= “Hub” Billiard Parlors,
October.—Amidon won all five of his games, and also made high winning
average (4.26) and second highest run (26). Smalley’s 39 was highest.
* * * * *
=Chas. Threshie vs. Wm. A. Paige.= Class A challenge match at 14:2,
Boston, Mass., about November 15th.—T., 400—11.11—48; P., 203—36.
* * * * *
=Championship of Northwest and Southwest at 18:2.= A tournament so
announced was held in St. Louis toward the close of November, and was
won by Al Taylor, of Chicago. The other contestants were Chas. Peterson,
Frank Maggioli, and Lewis Shaw. They played afternoon and night, 300
points up, and every game (600 points in all) had two sessions. Peterson
was second. It was professedly a challenge championship for shortstops,
but there has never been a match for it.
* * * * *
=Handicap 14:2 at Louis Bensinger’s, Chicago.= October 31st to December
8th.—Chas. F. Conklin (scratch, 300) won every game of his but the last,
which was with Ed. Rein (265), who finished second. Tieing Bliss for
third and fourth, A. J. Brown won play-off. Bliss had been the leader
until Conklin, making high average (14.29), defeated him by 300 to 46.
* * * * *
=Maurice Daly’s Class B 14:2 Tourney.= N. Y. City, December 5–14th.—Won
by Albert Lewenberg, with H. A. Coleman second and F. M. Canda third.
The chief winning averages were 9.26 by Lewenberg, 8.03 by J. B.
Whitehead, and 7.58 by Canda. This was the first tournament of Whitehead
and James Vantine, and Canda’s last up to the present time. A sixth
competitor was Louis A. Servatius.
* * * * *
=Championship of Illinois at 18:2.= Louis Bensinger’s Room, Chicago,
December 12–17th.—Three-handed tournament among Clem E. Ellison, John
Matthews, and George Wheeler. Ellison, the winner, made the best run
(124 in the first half of his game with Matthews), and the latter the
best full-game average (13.33) in his contest with Wheeler. They played
in double sessions of 300 points each, and in his first session with
Wheeler Matthews showed the remarkable speed of 33.33 per inning for the
300 points.
* * * * *
=Foley’s Chicago Handicap at 14:2.= October 17th to December
24th.—Ballard (175) lost only one game to the two each of Jenkins (140)
and Ed. Rein (scratch, 300). In the play-off for second prize, Jenkins
beat Rein. Of the other seven, J. M. Miller (200) failed to win a game.
Rein made the best run and average (84 and 9.38), Ballard the
second-best run (37), and De Witt Cochrane the second-best average
(8.70).
* * * * *
=Amateur Match, Ed. W. Gardner vs. Dr. L. L. Mial.= German Liederkranz
Society’s Rooms, December 29th.—Game 14:2. G., 300—14.29—137; M.,
100—46.
* * * * *
=Northwestern Amateur Championship.= West Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn.,
November and December, Messrs. Logan, Huyck, and Campbell tieing,
playing off, and winning the first three prizes in that order. Thayer
made the best run (50), and Thayer, Logan, and Fremont tied on the best
winning average (7.14). Liverman, Stephenson, and Risden were the other
competitors. The game was 14:2, 200 up, on a 4½ × 9 table.
1905.
=Maurice Daly’s Class B Amateur Championship.= Begun January 23d, N. Y.
City, and won by H. A. Coleman.—In playing off tie for second and third,
February 3d, Wm. Gershel averaged 11.11, defeating Albert Lewenberg by
300 to 119. Other contestants were Chas. E. White, Louis A. Servatius,
and James Vantine. Games were 14:2, 300 up.
* * * * *
=Fifth Annual Gold Cup Championship Tourney.= Held in Chicago January
30th to February 11th, under the auspices and at the clubhouse of the
Chicago Athletic Association. Known as the “Diamond Tournament.” Games,
300 points, 14:2. The day before play began, H. A. Wright, of San
Francisco, was summoned home, his father having been mortally stricken
by paralysis; after playing one game, defeating Edward Rein, of Chicago,
J. Ferdinand Poggenburg was called to New York by the death of his
mother; and Rein, having won from Ed. W. Gardner and lost to Chas. S.
Schmitt and Wilson H. Sigourney, was forced by illness to forfeit to
Chas. F. Conklin, Chas. S. Norris, Byron Stark, and Charles Threshie.
The C. A. A. threw out the games of Poggenburg and Rein, but the
subjoined table retains them, inclusive of the 51 to 1 score by Conklin
and Rein as a factor in their general averages, as well as Poggenburg’s
run of 79, which was actually the highest of the tournament, although
Conklin’s 78 was awarded the special prize in consequence of the
canceling of games.
W. H. R. Av. G. A.
Conklin 7 78 11.11 7.76
Sigourney 7 61 10.34 7.49
Gardner 5 76 11.11 8.17
Norris 5 66 8.82 6.28
Threshie 5 45 7.89 6.02
Schmitt 3 49 8.11 5.31
Stark 2 52 5.51
Rein 1 41 6.82 4.73
Poggenburg 1 79 6.97
Stark has no winning average because the two games credited to him were
won by forfeiture only, and Poggenburg lacks a general average because
of having played but one game.
Averaging 8.33, Norris won the play-off for fourth and fifth prizes by
300 to 256. The championship tie was won by 300 to 231, Conklin
averaging 6.52; and Conklin averaged 9.09 in winning from Gardner, by
300 to 263, the special prize for high single average.
* * * * *
=Mussey’s 14:2 Handicap, Chicago.= Held in February, and won by Dr.
Harley C. Parker, who was at “scratch” with C. F. Conklin, whom he
defeated by 300 to 228, losing to George Kent alone. Kent, Walker,
Edwards, and A. J. Brown tied for second, third, fourth, and fifth
prizes, and agreed to divide.
* * * * *
=A Shortstop Championship.= McLaughlin’s Room, N. Y. City, February 27th
to March 10th.—Tournament for the 14:2 shortstop championship of Greater
New York and vicinity. Frank Hoppe won his whole four games, Louis M.
Crane and Walter Aborn tied for second and third prizes (Crane won
play-off by 250 to 227), and Wm. Cox and Fred. Harer tied for last two
places, Cox winning by 250 to 160. Crane made highest run and best
single average, 45 and 6.94, and Hoppe the best general average, 4.85.
This was meant to be a challenge championship for an emblem given by the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., but there have been no matches.
* * * * *
=Philadelphia Clubmen’s 14:2 Handicap.= Tournament under auspices of the
Schuylkill Navy’s Athletic Club, February 20th to March 20th.—Every man
played in nine games. Dr. Uffenheimer, of the Pennsylvania University
Club, won his every game but one, and that the opening one, in which
Hovey defeated him by 20.
H. G. W. H. R. H. A. G. A.
T. Mortimer S. Rolls 325 6 47 9.56 5.51
J. E. Cope Morton 275 6 47 5.85 4.31
Dr. Wm. E. Uffenheimer 240 8 36 5.59 4.30
Julius J. Hovey 240 5 35 6.86 3.74
Dr. F. W. Holden 240 5 25 4.71 3.46
C. A. Borda 240 3 30 3.93 3.05
James S. Alcorn 225 6 53 5.62 3.08
Walter R. McShea 225 3 24 4.26 2.70
H. P. Moon 225 1 25 3.14 2.44
W. A. Hawley 225 2 27 3. 2.73
Alcorn, who made the highest run in the tourney proper, was defeated in
the play-offs by both Rolls and Morton. In defeating Alcorn, Morton
surpassed his tournamental average by making 5.98, and Rolls made 7.22,
surpassed only by his 9.56 in beating Moon by 325 to 82. Also defeating
Rolls in the play-off (275 to 292, with 5.73 for winning average),
Morton secured second prize.
* * * * *
=French Championship of the World at 14:2.= Classes A and B were both
determined in March. The Class B tourney, held first, was won by Roudil,
of Montpellier, who lost but one of his six games, and tied Nélys, of
Fontainebleau, as to highest run (51), but was second in winning average
(6.81) to Rose, of Paris (7.89), who lost four games. Roudil’s general
average was 4.79, which was second to Nélys’ 4.99. The winner of second
prize was Pleindoux, of Beziers, who won four games, and yet was the
only one of the seven whose general average (3.72) failed to pass 4.
Lucien Rérolle won Class A, although he lost one game to Letellier by
400 to 259, the winning average being 16.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Rérolle 3 118 20. 15.55
Darantière 2 47 14.29 10.78
Letellier 2 85 16. 9.58
De Drée 2 54 9.09 8.36
Artus 1 108 9.30 7.80
In the play-offs, Darantière scored 400 to 213 and averaged 14.29
against Letellier, and 400 to 218, with an average of 16.67, against De
Drée; and Letellier, in defeating De Drée, averaged 11.11, making the
ninth winning average above 10 in thirteen games. The play-off high runs
were: Darantière, 82; Letellier, 72; De Drée, 60.
The average of the tournament may be roundly expressed as 10.35,
exclusive of the three tie-games.
* * * * *
=Bensinger 14:2 Handicap, Chicago.= Ed. Rein won by defeating C. F.
Conklin in the final game, about March 15th, leaving Conklin tied for
minor prizes with Thos. J. Nolan and Dr. Harley Parker. Conklin and
Nolan defeated Parker in the play-offs.
* * * * *
=Amateur 14:2 Handicap in Brooklyn, N. Y.= Frank A. Keeney’s Room,
February, March, and April.—Won by J. M. Millette (225), who lost but
one game out of seven. Chas. E. White (scratch, 260) and Wm. A. Leonard
(200) tied on 5—2, and no one else did better than 3—4, which was the
tally of Louis A. Servatius (230), Frank A. Boyd (225), and John A.
Keane (220). The other two were Geo. C. Seeley (200) and Henry Hoxie
(190). The best winning averages were White’s 7.03 and Leonard’s 4.76,
the best general averages White’s 5.72 and Millette’s 3.89, and the best
runs Leonard’s 43 and Servatius and White’s 41 each.
* * * * *
=Jacob Schaefer vs. W. F. Hoppe.= Three nights of 18:2, John Miller’s
Room, New Orleans, April 18th, 19th, 20th.—S., 1500—16.85—117; H.,
1467—118.
* * * * *
=French “Championship of the World” at 18:2.= Paris held a tournament in
April and May.—The winner was Van Duppen, of Antwerp. Totals were made
public, but not averages and runs.
* * * * *
=Maurice Daly’s Class B.= N. Y. City, May 22–26th.—“Even up” at 14:2.
Neither having won a game, Wm. Gershel and Albert Lewenberg did not play
the scheduled sixth and last.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Mark Muldaur 3 41 7.14 6.05
H. A. Coleman 2 44 8.33 6.17
A. Lewenberg 0 26 5.03
Wm. Gershel 0 46 3.70
* * * * *
=Foley’s Summer Class B Handicap, 14:2.= Chicago, Ill., May 15th to
October 13th.—Twelve entries, J. M. Miller (scratch, 200) tieing Roney
(145) and C. L. Jackson (200) for first, second, and third. Harris (200)
made the highest run, 41, and Jackson, new to tournaments, the best
winning average, 6.90. Playing off the ties put Jackson, Miller, and
Roney from first to third.
* * * * *
=Summer 14:2 Tourney at Daly’s.= N. Y. City, June 12–21st.—Won by Eddie
Foy, beaten only by W. Wefers, who made the highest run (31), which was
duplicated by M. Conly, whose winning average (4.65) was second only to
R. Dittman’s 6.45, and whose general average, 3.42, was highest of all.
Games were 200 up, L. Wormser winning none, and S. B. De Young, Dittman,
and Wefers tied on 3—2 for second, third, and fourth prizes, play-offs
resulting as those players are named.
* * * * *
=Al Taylor’s Stunt at 18:2.= Wagered that he could not average 15 in six
sessions at Foley’s Room, Chicago, week ending June 24th, Taylor to
choose his opponent and selecting George Wheeler, he failed by 20 per
cent. T., 2500—12.14—104; W., 1683—74.
* * * * *
=Three-handed 18:2.= Louis Bensinger’s Room, Chicago, week ending
September 2d.—Games played in double sessions. Clem E. Ellison won,
defeating both George Wheeler and Frank Maggioli, who came out even.
Wheeler made highest run (120) and average (21.40), but it was against
Maggioli. Against the safer Ellison, who won by 600 to 523, he could not
reach 9.50. Maggioli lost to Ellison by 449 to 600.
* * * * *
=Amateur Championship at 14:2.= Challenge match, 4½ × 9 table, West
Hotel, Minneapolis, about September 7th.—Ed. Huyck (champion),
200—5.26—30; W. F. Thayer, 142—26.
* * * * *
=Maurice Daly’s Class A Handicap at 18:2.= N. Y. City, October 2–7th.—H.
A. Coleman (240) was first; J. Ferd. Poggenburg (300), second; Wm.
Gershel (240), third; and Dr. Walter G. Douglas (240), fourth.
Poggenburg, whom Coleman defeated by 240 to 232 in the opening game,
made the highest three runs of the tourney, 60, 73, and 54, and also the
highest average, 12, first against Douglas, and again in defeating
Gershel. Coleman’s 44 was the fourth highest run, and his 8.57 the
highest average next to Poggenburg’s 12. Gershel’s winning average was
5.33. The general averages were: Poggenburg, 8.95; Coleman, 6.05;
Gershel, 5.72; Douglas, 4.88.
* * * * *
=Class B 14:2 in San Francisco.= “The Savoy,” September and October.—Won
by George Kennedy. High average, 10, was made by Wm. Maguire. Within a
few days, these two played 1,000 up at Jas. F. Morley’s Rooms, Kennedy
winning by 31 and averaging 6.90.
* * * * *
=Handicap 14:2 in Portland, Ore.= J. G. Reddick’s Room, September and
October.—W. F. Lowry, A. Clark, W. R. Cody, and J. Mayer played 250 to
C. B. Hansen’s 160. When last heard from here, Lowry or Clark should
have been winner-in-chief.
* * * * *
=Début of Calvin Demarest in Tournament.= W. P. Mussey’s Room, Chicago,
October 2d to November 9th.—Handicap at 14:2, Demarest and C. F. Conklin
being the “scratchmen” at 300. Four of the competitors—Conklin, Collins,
Huntley, and A. J. Brown—were at the same time playing in the tournament
at Bensinger’s, recorded below. Walker was another competitor. Demarest
won Mussey’s, winning every game and making the highest run, single
average, and general average, viz., 79, 13.04, and 9.95.
* * * * *
=Handicap 14:2 at Bensinger’s, Chicago.= October 2d to December 13th.—C.
F. Conklin and Ed. Rein at “scratch” (300), and other contestants being
Messrs. Huntley, May, Barrett, Collins, Dr. Harley Parker, T. J. Nolan,
and A. J. Brown. Opening with Collins, Rein made his best average,
11.11; in early defeating May, Conklin ran 92, the best of the tourney;
and in the final game, in which he defeated Rein by 300 to 109, he made
the best average, 17.67. This tied Conklin, Parker, and Huntley (and the
play-off placed them in that succession), put Rein fourth, and tied
Brown and Nolan for fifth and sixth, and May and Barrett for eighth and
ninth.
* * * * *
=Final Contest for the Gold Cup.= By agreement of those chiefly
concerned, it was decided to end this series of annual amateur
competitions, begun in 1901, by holding a tournament of the Cup’s five
winners. Two, Arthur R. Townsend and Wilson P. Foss, did not play. This
proffered the other three an opportunity for two 300–point games apiece,
November 27th to December 2d, at the rooms of the German Liederkranz
Society, N. Y. City, and with these results:
G.W. T.P. H. R. H.W.A. G. A.
J. F. Poggenburg 4 1200 91 15. 12.
Ed. W. Gardner 1 903 59 8.82 7.99
Chas. F. Conklin 1 999 58 8.82 8.83
The Gold Cup thereupon became the personal property of Poggenburg, who
lost no game, while Gardner and Conklin lost one to each other.
* * * * *
=Phenomenally Close and Uniform Play.= Maurice Daly’s, N. Y. City,
December 11–22d.—Six games apiece, 300 up, 14:2.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Wm. Gershel 5 82 7.14 5.77
Van Vleck 4 46 6.67 4.99
Dr. W. G. Douglas 3 51 9.68 5.94
A. Lewenberg. 3 57 7.14 5.25
H. A. Coleman 2 52 5.66 5.35
Mark Muldaur 2 46 6.38 5.34
C. E. White 2 53 5.77 5.28
Every general average was in the 5 block but Van Vleck’s 4.99. Six of
the high winning averages were only 20 per cent. apart in their
extremes, 5.66 and 7.14. Gershel’s 82 apart, the extremes of the high
runs, too, were at only 20 per cent. variance. Nearly one-fifth of the
twenty-one games (ties were not played off) were won by fewer than 10
points, and about one-half by fewer than 30.
* * * * *
=Professional Tournaments at 18:2.= Beginning at Frank A. Keeney’s Room,
Brooklyn, December 11–16th, going thence to Maurice Daly’s, Manhattan,
January 1–6, 1906, and from there to Splaine & Cutler’s, Boston, January
15–20th, Thomas J. Gallagher, Edward McLaughlin, and Albert G. Cutler
took part in doubled games, or 400 points separately, twice around.
McLaughlin won in Brooklyn, and Cutler in Manhattan and Boston. The
striking features of the whole play were Cutler’s run of 193 and average
of 40 in Boston, where Charles F. Campbell was added; and it was in his
second game with Campbell that Cutler made both run and average.
1906.
=Foley’s 14:2 Handicap, Chicago.= Begun October 19th, and finished
January 5, 1906.—Jackson (200) and Van Haften (170) tied for first and
second, and Jenkins and Roney, 140 each, for third and fourth. Jackson
and Jenkins won. High run (33) was made by Cochrane (200), and he and
Jackson tied on high single average, which was 7.15. J. M. Miller,
another “scratchman,” lost his whole eight games.
* * * * *
=McLaughlin, Gallagher, and Cutler.= See “Professional Tournaments at
18:2,” last paragraph of 1905 but one.
* * * * *
=Crescent A. C. Championship, Brooklyn, N. Y.= Doubled games of 14:2.
The tourney narrowed down to Dr. H. D. Jennings vs. Geo. A. Fish. The
latter had won their first game, but on January 16th lost the second by
250 to 155. Next night they played off, and the Doctor, running 44 and
averaging 5.56, acquired the year’s championship by 250 to 151.
* * * * *
=Class C 14:2 at Daly’s.= N. Y. City, January 22–31st.—Conway won
without a losing, and Eddie Foy tied Wormser for second and third
prizes. Dittman’s 37 won the high prize, and that for high average,
5.58, was played off by him and Conway on February 6th, the latter
winning.
* * * * *
=Philadelphia Clubmen’s Handicap at 14:2.= Begun February 19th in the
hall of the Philadelphia Athletic Club, the “scratchmen” (300) being T.
Mortimer S. Rolls, of the Arts and the Belmont Cricket Club, and J. E.
Cope Morton, of the Germantown Cricket Club. Dr. Wm. E. Uffenheimer
(275) represented the University of Pennsylvania, and James S. Alcorn
(260) and Joseph Mayer (260) the Lawyers’ and the Mutual Club. The other
participants were J. Julius Hovey (260), and Charles A. Shedaker,
Charles Stiltz, and Warren A. Hawley, all three at 240. The Phila. A. C.
gave three prizes: hall clock for first, silver candelabra for second,
and a modern double reading lamp for third. Afternoon and night, about
5000 persons witnessed the games by invitation.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Rolls 8 46 8.57 5.65
Morton 7 43 6.12 4.85
Uffenheimer 3 41 5.73 4.37
Hovey 4 33 4.91 3.80
Mayer 4 40 5.65 3.89
Alcorn 4 32 4.41 3.65
Stiltz 3 29 4.71 3.31
Shedaker 2 32 4.36 2.97
Hawley 1 34 3.58 2.85
* * * * *
=Championship of the World at 18:1.= Grand Hotel, Paris, January 15th,
match for the championship and $500 a side between Maurice Vignaux, of
France (champion), and Wm. F. Hoppe, of America, challenger. H.,
500—20.83—93; V., 323—61. Winner’s run average is the highest to date
for any 18:1 championship match. (For other matches of the two 18:1
series see pp. 277–78, 285–86, 295 and 308.)
* * * * *
=Professional 18:2 in Four Cities.= Beginning on February 5th at “The
Casino,” Philadelphia, Harry Cline, Al Taylor, Ed. McLaughlin, T. J.
Gallagher, and Albert G. Cutler played a round a week in that city,
Trenton, N. J., Maurice Daly’s in Manhattan, and Frank A. Keeney’s in
Brooklyn, the chief prize being a loving cup presented by the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. Taken ill, McLaughlin had to withdraw in
Philadelphia. He played one game in Trenton, the second stand, but had
then to withdraw for good. This series of games involved no
championship. Cline won the cup, and also made the highest averages, as
a rule, but Gallagher made the highest run (138). The best average was
Cline’s 22.22, all games being 400 up. At Daly’s, Cline, Cutler, and
Gallagher tied, but did not play off. At Keeney’s, Gallagher and Cline
tied, and did play off, Cline winning.
* * * * *
=New National Amateur Championship at 14:2.= This, succeeding that of
the “Brooklyn Eagle” Gold Cup of 1901–5, was established by the
Chicago Athletic Association, the medium being a tournament held at
their gymnasium, Michigan Avenue, March 12th to 21st. Inclusive of an
ornate silver cup, serving the winner-in-chief as a perpetual memento
of the initial tourney, all the prizes but one were given by the C. A.
A., the exception being another silver cup, proffered by the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., symbolizing the American amateur
championship, and needing to be won by someone in two annual
tournaments to confer permanent possession. Games consisted of 300
points, and were fifteen in number, exclusive of the three ties, which
determined second, third, and fourth prizes in favor of Demarest,
Poggenburg, and Wright, the game between the latter two at the same
time deciding their tie for high-average prize in favor of Poggenburg.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Ed. W. Gardner 5 88 13.64 8.15
Calvin Demarest 3 83 14.29 12.07
J. F. Poggenburg 3 112 16.67 8.69
H. A. Wright 3 127 16.67 9.66
C. F. Conklin 1 90 7.14 7.43
Chas. S. Norris 0 51 6.37
That Conklin, who until then was titular champion, averaged higher as
loser than as winner was due to his winning but one game.
In his play-off with Wright, Demarest averaged 17.65.
Alike in direct execution and in generalship when preferable at times,
the playing was of a high order, as suggested by the average of the
fifteen regular games, which was 8.70; and there was scarcely a
particular in which the tournament was not a gratifying success.
* * * * *
=French Amateur Championship of the World at 14:2.= Paris, France,
February and March.—Class B:
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Labouret 5 68 6.97 4.89
Roudil 4 55 7.14 5.05
Duluard 3 43 7.14 5.17
De Vauce 2 35 6.12 4.44
Larcher 1 42 7.14 4.87
Deconde 0 31 2.98
In the preliminary, Labouret had 9.37 for high winning average and 6.87
for general, while Duluard had 6.97 and 6.25.
In Class A, the 133 and 100 were run in the opening game, wherein Sutra,
though twice running 100, lost by 400 to 397 to Rérolle, who averaged
16.67. On the other hand, when Rérolle made his best average, which was
against Hecking, his best run was only 72. The average of the tournament
was 10.60.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Rérolle 3 133 19.04 13.44
Sutra 2 100 13.33 11.62
Darantière 1 67 10.26 10.39
Hecking 0 53 7.22
* * * * *
=Championship of the World at 18:1.= Grand Central Palace, New York
City, March 27th.—Third match contest of the second series for the
world’s championship at 18:1 and $500 a side. Wm. F. Hoppe, champion,
500—10.64—56; Geo. F. Slosson, 391—61. In its financial aspect, the
attendance surpassed that of any other one-night billiard match ever
played.
Fourth match contest, Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, New York City,
October 17th: W. F. Hoppe (champion), 500—10.64—96; Jacob Schaefer,
472—42.
* * * * *
=Handicap 14:2 at Frank A. Keeney’s, Brooklyn.= Interrupted by illnesses
and also postponed nine days by a professional tournament, this lasted
from January 29th to March 16th, when there were ties yet to play. C. E.
White, scratchman at 275, of course made the highest average (6.40), but
near the finish lost three games straight to Keane, Smith, and Boyd.
Leaders in high runs were Leonard, White, Boyd, and Robinson, with 35,
33, 30, and 30. Servatius was another contestant.
* * * * *
=Championship of the World at 18:2, Second Series.= Maurice Vignaux’s
term as champion expiring in 1905, the jeweled emblem became his, and
the first series of games for the championship of 18:2 came to an end.
The second were instituted in Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, New
York City, by a tournament of 500–point games held April 9–21st, with a
tie-game between Sutton and Schaefer on the 23d. The prizes were a
silver cup (championship emblem), and $3000 in cash, both given by the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., the entrance fees of $250 apiece, and the
door receipts above expenses. This net amounted to $4200, which, added
to the $3000 purse and the aggregate entrance fees ($1750), made the
realization $8950 for the five most successful players. The tournament
was the costliest ever held, as well as the heaviest in receipts.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
George F. Slosson, New York ($3580) 5 153 33.33 18.47
George Sutton, from Paris ($2237.50) 4 234 100.00 24.14
Jacob Schaefer, Chicago ($1342.50) 4 171 31.25 22.94
Wm. F. Hoppe, New York ($1074) 3 177 27.78 20.44
Louis Cure, from Paris ($716) 2 100 20.83 15.14
Albert G. Cutler, Boston 2 146 17.24 14.46
Orlando E. Morningstar, New York 1 82 9.26 10.89
Average of tournament, 18.24.
The play-offs were won by Cure from Cutler, and Sutton from Schaefer.
Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, New York City, October 18th.—First
match ($500 a side): George Sutton (challenger), 500—31.25—202; George
F. Slosson (champion), 375—75.
Grand Central Palace, New York City, December 18th.—Second match ($500 a
side): George Sutton (champion), 500—107—26.32; Wm. F. Hoppe
(challenger), 258—78.
Continued under years 1906, 1907, 1908.
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=Professional Tournament in Chicago.= Thomas Orchestra Hall, May
7–12th.—Games 18:2, 500 points up, for a purse of $2000 guaranteed by
the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., and divided pro rata. Ties were not
played off.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Wm. F. Hoppe 4 307 62.50 27.78
Geo. Sutton 3 236 83.33 29.25
Jacob Schaefer 1 107 17.24 19.98
Louis Cure 1 126 23.81 18.69
Geo. F. Slosson 1 142 26.32 16.72
Average of tournament, 21.97. This is high, but it was by five chosen
players out of seven, which five had aggregately averaged 20.11 in the
championship tournament in New York City.
In Chicago, the aggregates of triple-figure runs were: Slosson’s, 260;
Schaefer’s, 393; Cure’s, 452; Hoppe’s, 537; Sutton’s, 1008. In New York:
Cure’s, 200; Hoppe’s, 427; Slosson’s, 478; Schaefer’s, 611; Sutton’s,
858.
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=Class B 18:2 at Maurice Daly’s.= New York City, closing as follows on
May 23d:
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
M. Muldaur, 300 5 77 8.33 5.67
H. A. Coleman, 300 5 47 6.98 5.90
A. Brock, 300 4 53 8.82 5.85
A. Lewenberg, 300 3 88 6.00 5.54
Tomsone, 270 2 31 4.66 4.42
Wiener, 240 2 37 5.71 4.08
Strauss, 240 0 46 3.32
Muldaur won play-off for first prize.
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=Calvin Demarest vs. A. J. Brown.= W. P. Mussey’s Room, Chicago, week
ending October 13th.—Undertaking to play 2000 points of 14:2 to Brown’s
1000, Demarest failed to reach 400 on any of the five nights, and scored
but 1550 in all. Brown on the final night made his 200 at a 9.52 gait.
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=Minor Championship of America at 18:2.= Concert Hall of New York
Theatre, November 19th to December 1st.—Tournament for gold-lined silver
challenge emblem, presented by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., and
50, 25, 15, 5, and 5 per cent. of $950, of which $775 were subscribed by
that company ($500) and the following named roomkeepers: Timothy Flynn
and Maurice Daly ($100 each), Frank A. Keeney ($50), and Keyser &
Garraty ($25). In the tournament, Boston was represented by Albert G.
Cutler, Philadelphia by Henry P. Cline, Chicago by Al Taylor, St. Louis
by Charles Peterson, and New York City by T. J. Gallagher, Edward
McLaughlin, and Frank Hoppe. Games, 400 points.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Cutler 5 162 26.67 14.31
Cline 5 109 25.00 14.52
Gallagher 4 118 18.18 10.02
McLaughlin 3 80 12.90 9.15
Taylor 3 94 20.00 13.33
Peterson 1 56 14.29 9.26
Hoppe 0 37 6.02
Cutler was defeated by Gallagher only (400 to 200), and Cline by none
but Cutler (400 to 288). Their tie was played off at Maurice Daly’s Room
on December 3d, and Cutler won by 400 to 230, with 13.33 for average and
47 for high run, Cline’s being 44. The tie between Taylor and McLaughlin
was not decided. There was never a challenge for the emblem, which
became Cutler’s personal property on December 3, 1907, the championship
itself then expiring.
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=Chicago 14:2 Handicap.= W. P. Mussey’s Room, November.—With 13.64 as
best average and 10.50 as general average, Calvin Demarest won his whole
seven games, and A. J. Brown, with five victories, won second prize.
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=Amateur 18:2 Tournament.= Maurice Daly’s Room, New York City, December
10–15th.—Games, 250 points.
W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
C. A. Van Vleck 4 33 6.76 4.69
F. M. Canda 3 33 7.58 5.62
Wm. Gershel 1 48 5.43 5.11
W. H. Tomsone 1 53 6.10 4.55
Mark Muldaur 1 37 6.76 4.63
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=Mixed Amateur and Professional Handicap.= L. Bensinger’s Room, Chicago,
December.—Defeating A. J. Brown by 230 to 58 on an average of 17.69 and
a high run of 85, C. F. Conklin closed his series without having lost a
game. George Wheeler, professional, was second, and Edward Rein,
amateur, with two games won and three lost, tied Frank Maggioli,
professional, for third and fourth prizes. The play was 18:2.
1907.
=Maxine Thomas’s Formal New York Debut.= Maurice Daly’s Room, December
31, 1906, and January 1–2, 1907. Style, 18:2. Averaging 16.46, and
having 102 for high run, T. J. Gallagher won by 1200 to 889.
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=Calvin Demarest vs. Ora Morningstar.= W. P. Mussey’s Room, Chicago,
January 14th to 19th.—Exhibition six nights’ game at 18:2, Morningstar
to make 500 points nightly to Demarest’s 300, but failing on the whole
by 792. Demarest averaged 16.36 in his 1800, with 152 for high run to
Morningstar’s 143.
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=World’s Championship and $500 a Side at 18:2.= (See p. 309 for earlier
contests of second series.) Orchestra Hall, Chicago, January 21st, third
match.—George Sutton (champion), 500—71—17.86; Orlando C. Morningstar
(challenger), 472—72.
Same hall, November 5th.—Fourth match. George Sutton (champion),
500—232—33.33; Jacob Schaefer (challenger), 241—93.
Lenox Lyceum, New York City, January 27, 1908.—Fifth match. George
Sutton (champion), 500—93—7.46; Orlando C. Morningstar (challenger),
309—26—4.68.
Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, New York City, March 27, 1908.—Sixth
match. George Sutton (champion), 272—83; Wm. F. Hoppe (challenger),
500—99—20.83. The week following, Hoppe returned the emblem to its
donors. There being no challenge pending, this closed the second 18:2
series.
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=Interclub Handicap Championship.= Philadelphia, February, 1907.—Game
14:2. T. Mortimer S. Rolls (scratch, 300) was first, with 11.54 for best
winning average; J. E. C. Morton second, with 7.24; and Joseph Mayer
third, with 5.48. The other contestants were James S. Alcorn, J. Julius
Hovey, Dr. W. E. Uffenheimer, and Warren A. Hawley. High runs were
lighter than usual in this series, but the general play was better.
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