The New York herald., 1875-11-18
THE BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.

terdav although the galleries and the seats on the oor
of the house we're wen filed II was quite different IN
the evening for long before the hour fixed for the
p,yers 10 string for the lead almost every available
seat was occupied every part Of the hall the ladies'
GALLERY being crowded The knowledge Of the fact that
yonnc sexton whose splendid play on Tuesday afler
noon created such general interest among the experts
was to play the evening drew hundreds Of spectators
10 the hall who had not before been present At or
the games
OF the afternoon between GARNER and sosson, and
i proved to be exceedingly tedious contest GARNER
did not seem be all, and though he played
very handsomely times, he unable to get the
balls together for a run. No matter how he played the
object balls persisted IN keeping at respectful dis
tance one from the other slosson had better luck and
the balls ran generally well for him, and when
they did not, he handled his with such skill 70
make extraordinarily beautiful round the
table shots He made run OF % IN
the twelfth inning 2s IN the fifteenth. % in
the twenty third p 10 the twenty eighth and 26 in the
twenty y.ninth The highest made BY GARNER was
81 The game ia fact was devoid oi al interest though
slosson certainly showed himself mean player but
the average or the winner gives the whole story Of
the game in a nutshell II was only and fraction
nnd the game lasted ono hour and forty-hve minutes
Slosson loudly cheered when he made the II which
him victory, and his little wife, who among
the spectators, beside herself with JOY when the
last shot was made She wept bitterly the day before
when after coming within sight Of triumph with
Cyrille Dion, she saw her husband finally defeated, i
being has second defeat OF the day. When he yes
terday some one else's wife was in tears
SCORE
The following is the score Of the game
Siosson-0 o. 0, =, o, IL, L. IL Ill d ?, 65, IL, 2,
$3.50 r ! p ? 2 o O. p : ? II II II : 2
Garnier-o, 4, 0, !, Il, IS, 81 ID, 1s, o
i, 8 2 g. J. 0, :, 5, 4, A. 10, y 5, 2 =, IL, Sis
cYRILLE pioS vs. RuDOLPhE
The eighth game OF the tournament and the second
Of The day was between Cyrile Dion and Rudoiphe
Dion the lead, and made ii N his nrst inning
having succeeded after bis nrst shot m bunching the
balls in the right hand upper corner Of the table tn
doiphe signalIzed his lrst two attempts By scoring
only 0's, and made but ia the next four innings
Cyfle also failed 10 count his fourth and NTH
innings, but in the sixth by very ingenious manuu-
vrng he got the balls corner, and did not let up Till
he mad made 1 run OF So He scored 25 in
the ninth inning, and SO in the tenth. In
this inning when he had made AZ, the balls became
frozen and he had 10 lay them out: but he carromed
spenddly from the red to the white ball and after
reaching so missed an easy shot by hairs breadth
Rudophe, in his seventh inning, made 3d. and p in the
ninth his two closing shots beng m0Sse Shots tha were
really wonderful The score stood at the close Of the
eleventh inning 1S2 Tor Dion 70 90 Tor Rndophe Cyre
by very fine play made q ~ the twelfth inning, and
Rudophe him II better by making 80 in the
inning. Cyrille, IN beginning his thirteenth inning
found the balls badly scattered but he managed 70
make them yield him by elegant play before he got
them together When he did get them
BUNCH
he secured u but they slipped away from him at g
ure and he had again TO try his hand by sku long
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gcher. During this attempt he made II, and closed
the total OF the inning al 35 his last being all round
the table shot, to accomplish which he had to
take the Tour cushions This shot was the best OF the
day and loudly applauded. In MS fourteenth nnng
Cyrle made but i and failed TO count in the next,
while Rudolphe made 40 IN the two Innings, securing
Of 50 IN the fourteenth. and making during the in
ming several superb asse shots The Of the game
AT the close Of the sixteenth inning stood Dion 242
EGdolphe, l52
THR RUDE RUDoLPHE.
The latter had made IN the seventeenth, when the
q
table whereupon Cyrilie claimed they .'crotched
While the referee was examining them Rudoiphc ex
citedly exclaimed They not.N and offered 10
bet Dion 500 tnat they not Mr. Delaney
Ioneo the referee, ana y was decided ne
sumed play, but alter adding points to the
he had secured before the "crotcnn dispute the
balls became apparently tirozen,H and when Dion
made the clam Rudophe, IN his excitement showed one
OF the object balls down the table With his hand This
clear violation OF rule q made by Rudolphe him
self when the billiard rules drawn up; but
when Dion claimed three points Tor tho violation
Rudolphe again lost his temper, much to the amuse-
nent OF the spectators piohs clalm was oi
course entertained, and the play went on, but the
the wrangle. that they made mss after miss.
Rudolphe again made trouble by claiming that he had
counted ana again took Lhe Dis I'D manu- refusing 70
let his opponent play The referee decided he had not
counted and ordered him 70 20 and play but Ru-
dophe again nterfered The spectators the floor Of
the house amid the excitement LETT their seats aud sur
rounded the table and the referee and hear all
The fun Dion claimed the game, out the decision of
The referee was again repeated. Rudolphe subsided,
and IN the twenty ninth inning Dion made OF II
and ended the game The game occupied hour and
hfty minutes. The winners average was 10 81.
The following is
!. cyrille Donmll; y z, 80 !, e, 59 p,
Rudophe-o, 9, \ i 2, J, SO. 7, p, I, o s2, ], 49,
=, 3, u, 9 9, 2, 2 q 9. 2, 70, 2, 2-ls2
The game long looked forward 70 between Daily
and Sexton was the arst Of the evening In 1t, in
fact the whole anticipatons during the day Of the
spectators and their entire interest at the night
tanment were centred. The ladies present TOO,
seemed 70 be more than usually Interested the game
and Judging nom the hearty way in which they joined
IN the applause occasionally awarded the players they
appeared iuly as appreciaiive of the merits of
good shot the themselves The game
begun at twenty-five minutes after eight Sexton
winning the lead, but making nothing his first at
tempt Daly did no better, though he bad an admra-
BILE chance 70 sexton followed with a and
Day run up IS against that and tackled 81 i6 and
" - tAe - " the next thTee innings sexton
made zero in the third inning, only IN the fourth,
but IN the hlth, after dong some splendid round
the taoe work 70 get the balls u position, he sue
ceeded, aud lhen began nursing them For fully I'VE
minutes be kept the two object balls and bis ban
within the sixteenth q an inch of each
other, and not during this period did
H. let them move outside 81 space o haf foot HIS
touch Of the balls With his cue could have been
delicate had they been made 81 most brittle
glass and his existence depended upon keeping them
TACT nor did he leave them until be had Sci down Ia
his credit the highest individual Vel made during
the tournamcnt-I36 THIS made the game stand 4
Tor sexton TO IS for DAILY who did his best to ecovN
his background in the following inning. He
cool cucumber PLAYED
steadily and magnincenty thronrhont but Ia eon,d
keep the balls together proper fashion y score
largely 1t uphill job Of 1t With thai l36 put Vi
suddenly against him. He made 20 in his eighth in
ning but this appeared TO spur Sexton on 10
excrt0n and ne ran al TO offset the 29 Daily
caught up the youngster after this In the eleventh
inning sexton added 81 to his score, and followed this
up with - ! the seventeenth inning. DAILY kept
pluekily and ran IS In his seventeenth and
~ 10 the eighteenth inning, but he too far behind
for victory and the twentieth inning Sexton out
the game The game occupied one hour and hfty min
uies and the winners average exactly l5 Days
beng ~ 9-l9 The following
sCoRE.-
sexton-o, 5, Q. y ne, 7, 5 / u, Q, 81, 0, 4, 3s
0, q H. IO 800
naly-o IL ~ ~ -, Q, !, %, 4 %, ., i, l., l2,
:, 4 o5 70, 3-25L
JOE Dros AGAINST s1ossos
There recess of fifteen minutes afer the con-