The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-08-13
81 SLOcUMON BILLIARDS AND OTHEk
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II is a noble camel Billiards refer
TO, not other games. tits fascinating
game, genteel, recherche, absorbing. i'm
tellectual, graceful, elegant, aud digni-
fed game. requiring skill, nicety OF
touch, Judgment, eoOiness, calculation,
and mechanical eye. to become = top
sawyer billiardist. Vt has all the Writ mes,
and more too, and none OF the vices Of
base ball-a few of which arc, broken
fingers, violent running, and black eyes.
Ii is far more elegant game than foot
ball. 1t requires different sort Of tall
enl. The difference is this: Most every
body can't play Billiard. bpt eA cry body
do"s-aftci fashion. It Is very pop,
ulaY. aud takcs hold Of our folks like
TIE itch aud tli;st esnh,is me that there
i q great dea' of '1scratchia az" IN it. A
woodeD-Iegged man could plav bill
lizards, but he couldn't kick football to
advantage, nol cliapge his "base7 lively
a. base ball. Both the se gaInes are out
door games, aud liable To be inte:fered
" ith by rain and snow Saw q game
of base ball By some Students of Hsrv-
ard, III rain Storm. Each man carried
an umbrella. lt was novel sight, and
as tar rs the umbrellas went, q success.
But IL looked queer-deI ilish queer.
But Trey saved themselves q wetting.
DiliiaIds is an indoor game, the
weather interfering not With which.
Umbrellas are no. needed. You can
play all through a long. IN my night, and
sill be dry IN tlIe mOrping--gerE
''dry.2 Billiards Is more sociabIs
game than chess. Il IS a mum game,
tie latter. Good game FOR the deaf and
dumb. Perhaps not SO 'Inum," though.
as billiaris-at times. Jokes are never
cracked at chess. They are at billiards,
and you can always see the points,
Do You see the point? -.sE
But TO return To the game. Theoret.
ically, l know a great deal about bill
lizards practical. l am better yersed
in ''oid sledge." This is an inteilectuaI
ticular elegance or grace about Il, how:
ever. But yot' can play it in hay.
NOW, or under barn, which IL some
advantage, perhaps. like ''old ,sledge,"
for change. Swinging an old sIedge,
l am not partial TO, however.
AS al base ball, one can make long
runs" as billiards. if he has time and
his wind is good. There's McDeSits
he can ''ruh, three weeks at billiards,
though he may jaw as they often do
at base bail. la tine latter game there is
Little time TO take q a. st. AT billiards,
III you are fortunate enough 30 get an
antagonist who is "right on his bill
lizards" you en- lest pretty nearly all
through the game. This is great re-
Ilel, III one Is 1atI2ucd.
What 4 rest McDevitt gave Dion al
the game IN Chicagoi Dion found rest
for the soles of his feet. Indeed he did,
If the Wandering jew would tackle
Mac, he'd get rest, too.
Played q game the other night with
Deefy. Deery Is stout built fellow.
About my own build, only more SO,
rather, il anything, considering. He's
not 1.-THE. wiry, thin in flesh, like the
D. n NH 4 l.
men. Not if know Deery, he isn't
He's nfsOiat-fully devel-
oped. Billiard weight, 200 lbs, say.
Don't look like man who would de-
sire TO do all the heavy part of 8 game
OF billiards, aud let you take a rest the
while. Looks as though he could en-
dure a small lot of ease himself. Looks
as though it agreed with him. But
what does he do with me {? Well he
let me rest W lille he did all the walking
around the table, shooting the balls
about. was only Obliged to get up
out of my chair twice, and then didn't
have to remain up but q moment each
time. He went right On, apparently az
well satisfied rs though had given him
half an hours respite nj the expense of
my own repOse. he was good natufed
the fatigue WELL Found no fault be-
cause / took niue ease I'm my chair.
Perhaps it was because l was acquainted
with him. The game was $40 points
up, for purse Ga 5000, mile heats
hold mp. was thinking of that horse
| trot, last week, 30 points. up. To
make the game even, l,c gave, ouL of 800
| points up, 200 points down, double dis
counted me, ALI: WAS to give me %
points every time made .aa o., three
without sitting down. He diaII't have
to give me. any %. Referees thought
this To be about a square thing, ! waIt-
ed to play him even. L. would have
been just as vel for me. Referees said
that wOu't. make IL 100 nIUciI ike work
for me. Gave in at this, and played
him OH tie above terms. He won the
game by 4i points only. In order to
do this ,Ie was Obliged TO keep Oh his
feet during the whole performance. He
was entitled 10 win IL, think. Where
was L? Taking thiHzs easy In a cnsii.
toned chair. "A locker OH in Venice"
as McBeth remarked one SHH Jag, in the
canal city, where the streets are paved
with water. / asked Deerv once; If he
didn't want TO sit down. Thought. you
know, it looked q little cheeky for ms
TO be Iakin. all tie comfort while he
was doing all the woik. Said he would
as leave do il a. not. Didn't urge him
after that, you oct. Thought II he could
stand it, could. He stood it, and is
doing as " ell as could be expected. I
don't want any base ball after that. Or
foot ball. Or thriving the heavy hasii-
mer. Or pulling in O six-oared shell.
Not any of these asniisements, for ms.
when / tan Sit dowii and play BiiliAftiG