The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-01 00:00:00

• Billiaids in America.

Last Friday evening Pierre Carme gave a second Ohl"
bition of billiards at his rooms on Broadway and Twenty"
second-street, the first having been given two weeks pre-
viously. The attendance was very large, numbering not
less than four hundred of the leading amateur and prof°.
sional players of the city, and the entertainment ono oi4lle
finest ever vouchsafed the lovers of artistic billiards. It
had been expected that Michael Phelan and John 'McDe-
vitt would likewise exhibit their surpassing skill in hand-
ling the cue ; but the former had to leave town in tbe
afternoon, and McDevitt, though present early in the oven
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ing, did not play. Hence the labours and honours of the
exhibition fell to Carmo himself and young JohnW. Nleet-
gomery, of the Eclectic Billiard Room, Third Avenue. '
The entertainment opened with a game between Calve
and Montgomery, which the former won in about forti
minutes. Such playing as that done by Carme during thl
forty minutes was never seen before, and probably
never be seen again. In six innings, and while Moutg°-
mery scored nine points only, Carmo made nearly seven
hundred, averaging 106 points to the inning. His best
"runs" were 133 and 434. This playing was done eu
second-size carom table, it is true ; but the performancei
will lose nothing of its merit, especially in the naiuds
experts, when it is known that the incomparably service':
able pushing shot was ignored altogether, and also that
the balls were never " crotched"—i.e., wedged in a corner
of a table. In the course of his run of 434, which is thl
largest ever made in public by strictly legitimate or ow
questionably skilful means, the player had to make about
a dozen masse shots.
At the conclusion of the game, Carme transferred hii/
field of operations to a full-sized carom table, upon which
he executed a variety of his fancy strokes, such as juraPil
the cue-ball over another ball and causing it to returueu
effect a carom without the aid of the cushion ; making„6
carom by sending the cue-ball around a hat; caroming '4
jumping into, upon, and over the hat ; caroming upo°
ball hold between the fingers of an assistant and Or::
three, or four feet above the table ; caroming upon hal'.
placed on top of champagne bottles without breaking ,t 11:
latter; playing from one table, and by first sending t"
ball through two hoops crossed, and then through a Ct.
ens balloon, effecting a carom by causing the cue-ball "-
take four cushions upon an adjoining table, &c. °xi-
eluding stroke was far the most intricate and marvellous
of all ; and if it had been necessary to convince the audience
that Carmo is a thorough master of his art, and has lo°ll
of billiards at his finger-ends than any other expert in tb.
States, if not in the world, the proof was ample in the Al
which closed this portion of the entertainment. Pla,ij3,,!
nine flag-bearing bottles at as many- different points 0'
table, he propels one after the other with the utroos'
rapidity six balls around the table with such nicety Of ford
r
and direction as to commingle them in a specified oorilj.o
and within a marked radius of nine inches. While ti'l
stroke is being developed the six balls are in motion, s°n/e
of them taking five, some six, and one seven CUSbiascl
and though they pass, repass, go between, ground's
dangerously near the bottles, it is seldom that one is etr 13
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and none have yet been broken. From the fact a
bottles being dressed off with petite American ilegs'fice
balls used being of the national colours, Carme has 1111 D,
rously designated this six-movement stroke 16 The '-
White, and Blue, or Yankee Doodle Shot." with,
These fantastic strokes having been gone through
the second-sized table was again brought into requi'in,
and Messrs. Game and Montgomery played the conciu3
ing, game, 150 points up, push-shot barred. Came ssr°,ti,
easily, Montgomery making but 41 points.--/Viikei Ae
York Spirit of the Times.