The New York herald., 1872-11-30
DION VS.. DEERY.
Cyrillc Dion Wins the Billiard Match and
Retains the Champion Cue.
TIE CHALLENGE OF MAURICE DAILY.

The match at the regular four-ball game for the
championship OF America and the diamond cue,
between Cyrile Dion and John Deery, was played
last evening at Irving Hall. large gathering Of
billiard admirers met last evening at Chris O'COn-
nor's shortly after seven O'Clock and discussed the
prospects of the game. There did not appear to
be any very great inclination towards specuat0nr
but what little there was done was at about one
hundred to sixty on Dion. The Paris mutual pools
were not very largely patronized, as only forty
nve tickets were sold--twenty- eight for Dion and
seventeen for Deery,
AS usual there consid erable delay before the
contestants for the
CHAMPIONSHIP
made their appearance at Irving Hail. as they con.
siderately gave the spectators plenty Of time to
get seated. The match was played upon o new
bevelled fourpOcket table, OF the regular dimenJ
-sions, 5hxll. At eight r. NJ, the time appointed
for the commencement OF the match, there were
about five hundred gentlemen present, and tney
soon began to get Q little impatient. The game
WAS 1900 points up, each carOm counting three.
The contestants made their appearance about
twenty minutes past eight, and then gentleman
came forward and announced that Mr.. James Ben
nett would oflciate as umpire for Mr.. Dion, Mr..
Maurice Daily for Mr. Deery and gentleman anna
teur would act as referee. The following chal-
lenge to the winner was also rcad-
New YORK, Nov. 81, 1877 !.
Dean sIai hereby challenge the winner Of the cham.
John psery, PLAYED the sst6 inst playa
a'f
Yours, &C., '''"S 'A' ''''''' ''s'M MAuRIcE DAILY.
Play commenced at half-past eight. Deery won
the bank for the lead, ana played up into the left
hand corner. Dion then lead on, scoring carom,
and was followed py Deery with a., cleverly put
together. Dion then ran coup, man9uvre
which was followed by Deery. Cyrille then finding
he had better get to work, made Q pretty carom,
and alter repeating let Deery come in with o run
OF so. Dion then made couple OF car0ms-one
twice round the table-mssed an easy one. and
and Deery then made "a with the help Of a Scratch
Cyrille then on his sixth inning, ran up q, and
Deery followed with q bad miss is were then made
by Cyrille, when he ran into q pocket, and Deery
went in and missed. Cyrille followed with 3O in
cluding brilliant stroke round the table, and
baulk. Cyrtlle missed and Deery made and left
them In baulk again. The game at the end Of the
DERRY III AND DION co.
nant The next four or aye innings did not bring to-
s s On e innings
Deery appeared to wake up little and made So.
This started Cyrle, who Immediately took of his
Twelve caroms i he lost the white ball, and con.
cluded with double bauk and As all told. Deery
"
played up the table and scored carom. At the
end Of the twentieth in inning the gore stood
On the twenty-thir inning Dion made 70, in
Guiding very pretty draw shot, executed 4
difficult position Deery followed with 81. At 1e
end OF the twenty NTH inning Deery made q d se
BILE baulk and Cyrie then opened the twenty-si
inning with very brilliant bank shot OF tn
put together e3, alter which Dion made miss. a
the end Of the thrtieth inning the score stood:
DEERY 573 AND DION 35S
After n little uuiet DaV Dion got them tOrethe
the thirty fourth inning and was scoring prcttyf
when Deery putt put IN 2 claim a,,a Of foul , Which howe,
easy cas- ono. In the following inning Deery N
missing simple carom, much to the disgust OF
interested young man In the background who
three innings 1t was hard to say which man
PLAYING the ! worst With WITH aP appropriate exactn
let Cyrile commence the iortleth with q, when 10
latter unfortunately ran into pocket At the clgse
OF the orteth inning ss hs sn score roN stood s
Nothing very brilliant was achieved by cit ~
party until the fort, fifth inning, when Dion at last
rolled up 1855, which considerably improved the
pect OF affairs. At the end OF the hftieth inniag
DERRY ss5 AND DION 100.
After Dion's shot on the nfty-third inning 81 ey
took recess $50; Of about = I'VE % minutes. AS Play wa
Mr. Dion and the gentleman amateur who oflciaLed
as referee. II was, however, soon decided, as Mr..
game was resumed. In tho fifty fifth and fifty sixth
innings Deery ran 80 and 80. At the close Of the
DEERY 942 AND DION S12.
On the sixty-ffth inning Dion ran 45 and then
had the bad luck, after scoring to be kissed into
pocket. On the SEVENTEEN inning Dion was in
hand and made brilliant bank shot, but by bad
luck went into pocket. The SEVENTEEN inning
closed as f0Ows:-
DEERY 1909 AND DION e0s.
The game now became very tedious, as both men
were playing wretchedly. At last Cyric made
one OF his brilliant bank shots which he rolled up
to a break Of 81. The eightleth inning concluded
with the score as follows
DRERy l,l2s AND DION 1,013
In the eighty second inning Cyrille ran 81 very
cleverly, but with his usual good luck ran into
a pocket after Q brilliant carOnl. On the eighty
fourth inning he ran "a, and followed with Is and
49, and on the eighty inning he ran 32l,
which was nearly double his last big OF 165.
The game was now virtually over, as on the MIN
tieth inning Cyrtle made run OF 33 and won the
match. The following s the score OF the game:-
Dion-3, 3, 9, g, o, 81 18, 80, o. o, g. q, 15, g. H.
o. Is, r. o. s. !, ~ Is, o, 33. o. g. IL, 10, 0, IL,
g. 81 O. Q, g. Is, g. 81, o, o, g. 3, 165, Q, l. 27, 10,
"a, Q. 9, !. Q, Q, -, 8. % 9. ], l. l6, TO- o.
IL, SO, s2I, g. 33-i, ,5o2; average, 16ss.
Deery-42, 3, go, q, "a, 0, &, 6, g. o, 8, o, "a, Q,
49, 66, 49, g. 27, O. 81, q, 9, SO, o, o, o, g. o,
3, 0, 18, 81, o, g. O. 80, 80, 49, q, f. L. o. 18, T. g.
80 o, o, 33, 80, o, l. !, 0, 3, 2l, 13 g. o,
3, Q, g. o, 2l 81, 10, O. o. 13, SO, "a, 0, 9, 0,
Is, 0, Q, 15 1-1,20l; /; average, 13 35.