The New York herald., 1876-11-29
THE BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.

THE CLOSING GAMEs-CYRILLE AND JOSEPH
DION The WINNERS.
Tho tournament proper concluded last evening.
Tho resul. leaves Joseph Dion, George Sosson and A.
p Rudolpho on tho same footing, and they will be
Obliged to play or for first, second and third places
Garnier who comes next, takes fourth prize, and c.
Dion, shaier and DAILY remain out in the cold
DAILY c.
In the above game tho twentieth OF the tournament,
DAILY won the lead but neither player scored in the
nrst two innings Daily the first to find opening,
but il yielded him only II points Dion took Is his
nnh inning and retired on miss which due TO
careessness On tho seventh inning no did better and
made somo pretty play on the sido cushion and
gathered 81 points before he sat down again
ON a careless shot, Daily In The moan
time kept playing very .poorly, missing
ingy tho simplest cushion carroms. The eighth
inning gavo Dion chance, which he improved for "a
points DAILY scored double figures Tor tho first time in
the ninth inning Ho played for ~ points, ana missed
a draw that would make an amateur blush His twelfth
trial showed somc Improvement and no made It worth
as we'll earned shots before he retired He was
point behind Dion, who stood at 96 The latter missed
and Daily went in for ~ points, which he made IN tho
face OF some very bad breaks The game now stood
DAILY, l44 DION, 90;
but the latter in closing even innings reached eight
points his first hundred. To this no addcd ~
moro the following play, which MADE just onc.haf
the game and left Daily i've points behind him. Daily
took the lead his next inning with splendid run
or AZ, but which he finished by missing an
ordinary masse. Dion in turn took "a from
tho balls the side cushion aud came within
points OF overaking Daily, when tho latter ran away
from him with scoro Of % points. Dion, now 70 IN
the rear began playing with extreme care and secured
81 shots which gave him IN turn lead OF points
The twenty second inning gave HIM good run OF 40
points, which left him 81 TO 60 DAILY missed, and
DION IS OF thcm, and finally ran out in 20 innings
The followirgis Is
Day-o. Q, H. !, 9, 10 0, 0, 4s, 40, !, 42, o
~. i. "a, i, "a, O. /, 2, 40, 2s III, 800.
RuDoLPHE VS.. J. DION.
The twenty first and last game oil the tournament
was between the above two players. 1t was an I'm
por,ant one Tor Rudolphe, for II he won II he would
take the prize, Slossoh the second and Joseph
Dion third. Dion took tho lead, but II avaiod
tary count The third inning gave Dion .
break OF twenty-six, which his opponent sue
cccded with one OF twenty nine. They both
playcd stupdly for tho next live innings when Dion
after Shots brought the balls 10 the side cushion
and started on journey 70 the upper corner. A few
shots took them In good shape to the end rail- and by
sfrozo" him THAI point but he counted from tho
spot to loud applause. Unfortunately they rolled
s.safe' him and he retired with LIS. The game now
stood
pox 1856; RupoLrHE so;
and tho latter made miss which let Dion in for an
other large made almost exactly in the same man
ncr as the one proceeding II. He reached 100 TO q
round OF applause, but missed after making more
Dion aO7 ahead which IN game OF 800 points
almost certain victory. He missed for iour con-
secutve innings but Rudolphe did not profit much,
taking in the same time but Is points The sixteenth
inning worth 80 points for Don leaving him with
IL 10 90 which he made In his eighteenth inning.
The following Is
j. Dion 2 20, Q, i Q, 10, l2S, los. O. Q, o. Q,
30, o. 1900
Rudophe-l, 0, 8, 20, Q. o, 0, 800, a. l. !,