The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-06-27
PALL0NE PLAY IN THE CITY.
TIE IT4Lrfvs EyHIBfTIyG BEIORE 4
SELECT ISSLMBLIGE
A Pns'ime TINT I. Dr.crihcd .. Combination
OF Football and Billiards The First Games
ever Played In America briefly Described.

a Pnstime TINT IL Descrihcd ns n Combination
Of Football aud Billiards The First Games
ever Played In America briefly Described.
A rehearsal Of the game of palionc was
given vest trrdny aitern )on before specially in
vited guests on the pallone ground, at Sixty
ninth street and Madison avenue. under the
management of Mr.. C;csare Orsin Tn, OPEN
ing contest ia to be played tomorrow afternoon.
Along the south side Of the vacant block has
been built a fence" forty-nve feet high The
boards are about two in hes apart S'anting
PROJECTING fifteen feet above the top Of the fence
are intended to hold noting. This IL called
supporting wall. North of this fence or wall il
n lcvclled and compatly rolled piece of ground
sixty feet wide and 32i feet long Along the
northern odgc there will be another lower WALL
also surmounted by netting. At the Madison
avenue end Of the ground nre seats raised like
those in IA theatre. and covered with IA roof. In
front of these seats il stretched more netting.
A high wooden buwark is 10 bo erected u, the
opposite end.
Yesterday on the raised seats about $50 per-
sons were seated. Among them wero Consul
General dc Lu 'ca OF Italy, vicc-Consul Bay
notti, Mr.. Snrony. ex-Police Commissioners
Duryea anl Barr. Richard v Ilarnctt. and cx-
Alderman NJ Carerty. A good band furnished
music. At OK O'Clock eight men dressed in
white entered the ground. They wore jackets
purity open at the front. and handsomely
worked at the edges. knee hrecchce. white leg
gings. and white Linen sho.s. I hre OF the
eight wore blue sashrs. and three wore red
snshcs These w'rp the players One OF the
other two wis umpire and the business of the
other WIS To toss the bal 20 the ilrsi striker and
thus start the game. Etch Of the six players
wore on his ris sht hand n wooden guard. armed
with th KY st hoNwood points: the whole
weighs about four pounds, and somewhat re-
sHmhcs large pine cone. The hand IL thrust
into II ana cl n"her cross bar.
In on" corner of the ground lay several
diameter Before each was used. air was forced
into il with fore pump 10y an attendant Then
il was tossed 10 the stnrter. who stood a Little
DISTANCE from the northern limit of the ground.
The leader of the reds. Giuseppe Cipollint.
took his place on a wooden incline plane
againsi the netting that rrot", ted th" sp' 'riaiors
sud MY hc ran down with pii hi- force. ns-
ins his heavily load Il right hand H. was met
which had been thrown to HIM hy the
starter of the game. ii rrhuundcd from the
hard lockwood points ana As"nded in a b"nuti-
descended On the blues siic ol The ground Il
was en- 1uni"r"d 10y one ol thr IRE" play r.
.n"rf amt nn rtGrned Inus 4 io wa1 irnE h la
ireme elasticity Of tn romurcs@"d AIR wis su'h
thut Il rose th astonishing buuyun y ut every
stroke. Across the gfuuni. at the middle. was
stretched a pl".e uf white tape. On thlS iinr
stood the umpire. ana called out the points a.
Tho contest consists oi a series ~ games. each
of which Il mnd upoi four points. Tne frat
yam" WIS won 10y the reds. They won the ser-
oni game a'so. Ii WIS now the hlur- turn 10
ttke the pla.. oi the reds ct the wet end of the
grounds. THIS il th" position OF vantage. he
cause the players having their ghtarm toward
the supporting wall. can strik. u ball better
which hnpprnS tp fan near H. Tho bul IL ll-o
always tossed at ths end t. start the game. The
blues lost again. however. their oppone MS hAN-
INK won thr"" games on. ali,r another The
blues won. however. tho fourth. ilith seventh.
eighth, t.hth. end el.v' nth eam.s. making a
tie with the reds at tli" end of the twelfth. Sew
rnt'"n games IN Hll Wrr" played.