The Avoyelles pelican. [volume] (Marksville [La.]) 1859-186?, 1861-03-16
DoesticlxsoaB BiIliards.

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Billiard table as r ul Morphy is Emp
4 ror of the Chess board, has lately arri
/ ed in this country. ST
4 His wonderful playing has been Y
theme Of the daily papers for sewers
days, but We think none of the reportel
from the dailies are quite equal to th
task Of describing the miraculous shot
] Of the rotaind Frenchman, and therefor
! we copy the impressions Of Doesticks
~ 5siis.s,ss @ u, u Nav York paper
need hardly tell you that the gam,
of billiards consists in punching ivor,
balls about ON big table covered wit
green cloth. that looks like half an acrt
Of meadow land with and India rubber
fence round it; that the balls is pune ed
with long wooden ramrods, with wax on
the end to save the wood, and leather
put on to save the wax, and chalk put
on to keep the leather from wearing out
You take your ramrod and run chalk on
it; then you lean over the table; then
you squint; then you lift up your leg
then you fiddle a little OIL Your left hand
with your ramrod then you punch your
ball, you've done a big thing, and you
poke up a lot of buttons that are strung
on a wire. This is all there is of the
game of billiards. can and may be
you could 4ie a%at
4
Well, Berger has come, the great
French puncher;g and, Of course, I've
been to see him punch few billiards
with Phelan. Phelan is pretty fair
puncher himself, but be can't punch so
fast as Berger-in fact, B. has to give
t. a hundred buttons or so in every
game, I've often played with Phelan
myself but he always beats me; he has
a private understanding with the man
that, pokes the buttons--when Phelan
punches the balls the man pokes the
buttons; hen ! pune, the balls nary
button will the man poke. So Phelan
goes out, but my games is a little the
brst-in fact, I've challenged Phelan to
play me a thousand buttons for lot Of
money, and I've offered to keep the game
myself, so as to be sure all is fair. Phe-
an's conspiracy with the man who pc
Ses the buttons is a disgraceful thing
I discourages young men, and makes
hem think they cant punch billiards as
we'll as Phelan can. I'm bound to break
t up. But Berger has outgeneraled
'helan. Berger has bought over all
phelan's button-pohersp, ays'm more
money than Phelan did, and now they
sive Berger all the buttons.
Ha hal big thing on Michael!
Well. on Fridae, Berger was going
Q do some punching /; and there was /
n the midst. Berger is a fat man; TIE
op of his head is as bald as a goose egg,
md has got stomach like a three foot
CELESTIAL globe-in fact. he is aped
ike billiard ball, and might be used
or one if you take lis boots off and tie
lis heels to the back of his neek-onlF
don't want him to carom on me!
He brought all his own tools with |
lim from France-a table that isn't so |
ong by few feet as Phelan generally |
makes his--a lot Of balls and .rasnrods,
nd everything. Room was full, all an
ious to See the Frencllnan punched.
nd pretty good punching it vas. He
nade the balls hop all over the table,
nd generally had three balls in TIE air |
I once. Neil Br~ant was there, and I
Veil is a pretty good Judge Of billiard
i did my favorite shot with
reat success jumped nv ball off the
able, caromed on Neil Bryant and holed .
, iii spittoon.
Phelan said it was a big thing SO
id Neil. Berger rolled himself round to
, the corner Of the table, chalked his
amrod. executed a fancy lick; lie made +
is ball run three times round the table.
n the edge of the cushion, leap off at a
harp angle; .carom on Neil Bryant,
ONE back to the table, take eighteen
and stop exactly on the center
pot.
Phelan had try. He did one of the
nipple shots that | taught hiin-the one
hen the cue-ball takes. .twepty-om Gus
ions, Knocks the hats off three Dutch
len in the corner. comes back and
ops inside the string. Berger didn't
link much OF that; SO he took off his
oat and rolled up his sleeves and made I
tremendous lick; the ball hit p. elan
n the middle yest-bntton, carofned on
ell Br. ant, came back to the table and
'ok four cushions, went out Of the win
ow, gave stage driver a black eye,
ame back and took cushion, caroned
a Neil Bryant, took two cushions went
vice round the block, took Gus ion
ent out tllroug, another window, and
ime in through the skYlight, took four
ashions, and caromed on Neil Bryant,
nd allinfonr minutes, without STOPPING =
" breath or sweating a hair. ~
All hands were occupied for forty mi
ates in reviying Pnelan, who lad faint
from envy. ~.Afsi 4 4 ~ /.
Bsiger then made his grand sfot-fhe
ut such a tremendous twist on his ball
lat it took every cushion on every table.
the room, caromed on Neil Bryant, q
odged out OF the window, travelled
nee or twice up and down Broadway,
IN into a shooting gallery, rang the
ell nine times in rapid succession, and
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