, 1873-11-09
Match for $500 u Side Between
Maurice DAILY and George
Slosson.
A Remarkably Close and Exciting
Game.
Slosson Wins by Sevcn Potnts---
Small Italns and Small
Averages.

AlURHQtIJ
ntly inauguratcd by tho match played In that
hall last night by Mnurice Da'y, Of New York,
ana George sloaHon, Of Chicago. The gamo was
Frcnoh caroms, Da1y giving his opponett tho
odds OF GOO points to 900, tho stakes boing $500
aside. lrr, r. 2. Oow1os, editor Of tho Neslern
'tsporting Gazette, was appointed roforoo OF tho
matoh, and AIr. Joseph Dion was chosen nm
piro for Daily, mid Mr.. Henry Rhinoa umpire
for Slossou, Tho mitch wnB the moro inter-
ossing, inasmuoh US 1t had boon long talked
about, and obstacles had eovoral times
arisen In the way Of fta completion. At
ono time tho complications Of Daly's bua-
iness in New York 20 far sot aside tho probability
OF tho matcla's coming of that negotiations woro
opoued IN for match nt Bin,ilar odds botwoon
tito young Chicago expert md Oyrillo Dion, nnd
tho new match was half mado whom intelligence
oamo that tho Da1y~SlosBon match could be ar
ranged, Daly's friends In Chicago having advised
him to play ut all hazards. Tho game through
ont WIS yory vol played, and tho audience wcro
Intensely excited, their auperabnndant spirits
frequently elroryosciug in tho form Of
comments on the game, which, It Ia to
DO hopod will not bo iudulged in Ill
tho tournament games. At the start Daly led,
md, including hls opponents odds. was nhcad
of him at tho forty-socond innings, when tic
GCUIo 6tQoui 1a1yt O+t 0Aohbou AhuAoAb VIZ
odds), 222. from this point Of tho gnmo until
tho flftioth innings Dnlv increased his lead, un~
til ut that jnncturo the game stood: DAILY, 403
sloaaon, 259 (wilhout tho odds). Tho Chicago
boy, wllo Ia nothing If not neryy, now sottlod to
work. and played very strong ganc. getting
ahead of his opponent and retaining his lead to
the lnIsh, making 600 points to Daly's sos.
The audience, with tho exception Of a crook-
backed farmer in tho gallery, and fow hsses,
behaved sp1oudidly, rewarding tho strokes Of
each player with becoming impartiality. Tile
excitement ut tho very close Of tho galno WAS in
tense. Both players wero in excellent condition
ind splendid nerve, those who had ristiol their
little piles on tho game being much moro excited
than The players themselves.
Tho players approached the tnblo about half
past8 O'clock, and bankod for the lead. It was
won By Daly, and ho selected tho white. He
failed to count on tho frat ahot, md SloaHou
mado on easy caroms. Daly made !, aud
balls we'll for him, by hair. slosaon missed,
and Daily got tho bulls we'll together at the first
shot. but, through nervousness OF something
sloason followed with 5, aud Daly with again,
We weak 'Tzsps Tss On e0h nns se'' yedss Vss
Blosson, but he loft tho balls in, Buch
tho ru1,, and then frozc. and missed tic spot
shot. slosaon made in Ills fifth inning, and
left the balls In n very unfavorablo position.
NevorthelobA, DAILY counted. and got them into
amounted to so, tho majority Of which were
made by the ,1so Of tho draw as q position ehot.
slosson missed in his sixth inning, and both
missed in tho seventh. In the eighth inning
worry cleverly. Flo alippcd up on an easy shot,
however, and left tile bulls we'll for bis oppo-
nout, who made 70 off the leave BY careful play
md g96a nrsg n a. o we or
Daly. Ho failed to mako moro than l, g COM
mon follow-si,ot proving III obstacle. In tho
next two innings DAILY. maao and 7.
s0'Hon nob aod IN matns hss tTeh s9S ops ana
and in tho thirtoonth Duly missed
aud 6losson n,ado |. tho game then standing Sc
to a. in favor OF tho New Yorker. In tho four
teenth inning pay made md sloaaon l, the
barder ono. Neitl.or playor up to this time had
been playing anything like his average game.
In his aftconth inniug DAILY made H. and turned
bis first hundred BY. .9ponts. his opponent being
In his seventeenth inning, the ga1no up to the
twenty-fourth inning was very slos one.
though brilliant plays wore occasionally made
e ga3 npng soson AE poormed i seo very
tslick :" work in the way Of nursing and general
position play, accumlllating 80. In tho follow
Ing inning the ohicngo representative rolled
liz hs first fu ~ ffssns Tho tile sass hssandng g
nlng was eignalized by a 'acratch " on the
part Of DAILY, the first in tho game and ho MISC
bnn away with Ills cue when tho object balis
were cloHo to 1t aud togother. Siosaou steadily
gained on his opponent up to the thirticth
inning, when the latter kuocked out 50 in good
WITH the bridgo The balls % wore ioft In in such such
he was helped BY lis woll.Knovn faculty Of
nursing, and aoma clever musBcs. In tho Brc-
getting the three balls together ia tho
corner, Tho shot left was hard one, however,
and DAILY was compelled to play for Hafoty..
Blossom followed With count, which was groeted
DAILY put up similar numbor,, and thon
excellent layout for 3 big run. George took
low shots. 1n tic tlirty-foirlh inning, slosao.,
missed round -the-tabe slot, and Left tho balls
in snch shape TINT DAILY speedily collected them
on the loft-hnnd rail, and exhibited somo Of the
but counted OF the apot-sl.ot. ,1u o,ldoaving t.
ball OF tho tablo. The run Of IL was tho largest
Of tho gamo 90 far, and placed him ut $40 to biz
DAILY knocked out 20 in the noxt inning. lii the
thirty-ninth inning. o run of u, wMoh doyol.
oped several remarkably good oushion-allots
took 6loeson into hs third hundred tho Ecorf
inning, DAILY made II very neatly, but atrangol.
missed on draw shot tint q tyro could have
Inade. Tho leave WAS good ono for slosHon
but he only mada Z from 1t, and returned the
compliment by setting them up pretty woll fol
Maurice. Tho latter proceeded to make 50
which placed him ut 1921, and with more thnn hit
odds to Hparo. Bosson, at this time, was mol
playing at all we'll, willie DAILY on tile otllcl
hand, wna constantly increasing his 'spocl,
and playing with greater coniidoncs than lie
had hitherto shown. Hc made runs of y
and 22, made in the forty-thra aud forty-fonrtl
innings, and 8 aud 20 in tho two succeeding
onea, Slosaon meanwhile not making moro thar
q third Of the number. In his forty eighth In
ming DAILY made l, and put his acoro ut 400 tt
252. lio made another count in the inning, bu
In the hfty-lrst nnn; soason begun t
do some playing, mailing u, and fol
lowing IT up three innngs aftcrwart