The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-15
THE NEW BILLIARD GAME.
Plan Of tho Present Tournament at Which
There Is to Be No Nursing.
lin. Y.MnrlH. NnY.-l1.


Nearly twenty-five years ago The first or
Cue series OF billiard tournaments. of which
the one 10 open at Jammany Hall tonight Is
tho sixth. was suggested IVY MnaHis. Phelan =
Gellenaef. They offered rs a prize $500 ald
billiard table. In October 1860. the match
was played On Il x Ivy "a carom-tahn. Win
push and crotch phots. Ill June. lRe9, SIM.
lar match wasplayed on by II foul,poehet
table, with, rs before push and orotch pay,
ed. Dudley Kavanagh being the winner anu
Louis Fox second. The next tournament was
held In April and May. 1sea. with game OF
1900 points. On . hes by Il pocket tabla' We
uush and crotch shots being barred. Ola
mond cue. and $4,000 In prizes were
n, Rudolphn second. In June, 1879. the
frat 81 tho three-ball games was played on
abby 10 earom table for silver challenge
Gun and prizes amounting to over 5000 In
is3B tournament was held ~ Irving Hall
and was followed by q supplementary contest
between the four leaders. In the game nf
1878 Albert GARNER Was the leader. IA lstt
The tournament was held III horticultural
Hall. Philadelphia and after series OF forty
five games the winners In order were: sexton,
CARRIER SlOsson. j Dion. DAILY and Rndolphf.
Since 1873 the tkrsa-ball game on u shy ~
table has been the test for the championship,
and now there is demand for style OF play
which shall insure q game free from nursing
and other tricks. This demand will be met
by MIR. II. w. Uollender ut the opening OF the
t'nhamplun's game Tonight. He oilers
the rail-play, will restrict 1t. TIE table FOR
the game is the by 10 table, and the spots
are similar to those In the American nr
four. ball gene. Tho prominent change IN
the game ID the introduction of four trt-
angular spaces, one at each corner 81
the table. formed by u continuous line drawn
from the face OF the end cushion opposite the
fret "sight from the corner to the lace q,
the aide-nusbion opposite the second asiSht-
In each space two balls can be played upon
once only without sending at least one OF
them outside. Ii o second earom is made
within the restricted space. the count IL lnst
and the opponent takes his turn with the balls
as they were left. The game ID begun In the
usual manner, aud the object balls arc IN balk
as soon as both haye stopped within one %
the spaces. According to the rules 1t is foul
II more than two successive shots are mace a,l
on balls both OF which are within one Of the
apaces. The only way III which more than
that number can be made In succession with
I'm that space ts by sending one or both balls
out and bringing them back again. allEht
change Ii also made III respect to frozen balls.
the player having the option of playing di-
restupon the free object ball OF Of playing ct
u cushion and returning upon either ot the
object balls first, or Of playing from Within
the "string" at balls spotted.
These new rules tend in u great measure to
euualize the chances of tho several contest
ants. Tammany Hall has been carefully at
ranged for the tournament. with raised seats.
There will be tWenty-eiRht games played Dc
tween eight experts. Tho players are Jacob
Sehaefer, OF Chicago. who now holds the last
tournament emblem, and who Il the acknowl-
edged master IT rail play: George "a. Sloaann.
who ID almost Schaefer's equal. William Sex
ton, Albert GARNER, A. z. Rudolph Maurice
DAILY, Randolph Heiaer and Eugene Garter
The games will be 800 points un. on the Col
lender combination cushion table, One game
will be played aaeh afternoon. beginning to
morrow, and "Iank" Adams Will be present
earh afternoon and give exhibitions OF his
skill as finger hilliardlst on special table.
At each evening performance two games Will
he played. tho opening game being between
tween Sehaefer and Carter. The prizes are
$1,000, $500, $3.50, $1'o and 800. with badge
III the winner and the title OF champion Of
the champions game" 1t Ia said Sloason has
made run OF 1856 points at this game In prae-
tiea, but MS this ID the first tournament under
these rules there are no records as yet III IT,