, 1876-12-17
BILLIARDS..

RELICS or THE BURLE1GH-9HAW ROW.
There has lately sprung up something like dis
cussion over the badge which should carry with it
the championship Of the Northwestern and the
Southwestern States. This emblem, which was
put up for tournament by the J. n. Brunswick l.
Bake Company, came into the possession Of Will
lam Burleigh and went into the hands Of Louis
Shaw'shanls by corrupt and dirty bargain and
eale by which Burleigh bribed to let Shaw heat
hiu-something which he could not DO under any
sort Of equal circumstances. Shaw having TINS
stolen the emblem by scoundrelly and un-
sportsmanlike' trick. is now Haunting 1t as
badge Of his dishonor wherever he can pick up I
ner in his prctcnsons in St. Louis, has now gone
to New Orleans 1t is sufficient of him to cay thnt
ho never won tho emblem and never could have
poncntto lose, he carried away the badge, which
IN such an owners hand il nothing more than tin
teapot cover as far us regards any question OF
on whom Slew declares Ills intention Of precptat-
ing himself are hereby warned that he il low
class player who has more right to tic badge be
wears than would thief who had stolen 1t IN the
Another chapter in this etory is found in the per-
foruances Of one Elliott. who engineered the
fsnpd ha paa GhS1 confession
$500 to lose the game, ana nnue has reward py
swindling the men who bet on tire better player,
Ernnswick s. Bake Company. and when that cor
pofation found out what was going on they de-
earcd the b3dse 1oree n anu he dcne ITS
character of Elliott may bc learned from the fact
that he ''squealcd' and sued for his money
back under the Gambling lay of the state o. Mich
therefore been summoned over into coldwater,
Mich, to defend their money against ths n, man n
Elliott who seems to be unwilling to ataAa up 10
his bargain, and who has unqucstionablY taken
means to yct even with the donors Of the medal
which no sportsman would ever nave thought OF
for one moment.
n1easantnese; let the medal be declared invalid, az
f should have been long ago, and 4 new emblem OF
merely nominal cost be gwen to some player who
il willing to maintain it. A. present. tnat ore, %an
land. lie was not among the first when
tue tournament was finished. but he has Done much
better than any other contestant since Miller mas
tired into his roo; Burlclgh has put himself into
the swindlng bnnd by contcssins to a steal
Rhnes, third player, IL making more money in bis
room than he could ena eAee see
rather on the Pacific Coast than anywhere otse1
Carter has been beaten BY alaeher, and the latter
is best entitled to the cEb1em Of any honest com
uctitor for it, Let him have md maintain It, anu
bv that means some sport would be crcated and
matchc. payed which would not otherwise % Inc
case.
fnr paper, asking Gallagher to challenge him fot
tic medal If the latter does so he will be re-
ducing hinsolf to the level Of the gang who buy
and sell samcs--soalething which has never osen
Burlejgh, and Shaw. .
MAGGioL1 VS.. MILLER.
! No general publicity has ecen given to ne iac l
gan,c few days ago for. the championship o.
fonisiana. the latter winning with IN averagc o
10 81. The loser challenged for another game 1ol
SO aside at once, and was again 0eetsn os 4oo u