Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-24

| Slosson's average 49,. 1s1a Is So 26 22-2S
In the pool for the fourth nights game slos.
sou was handicapped 200 points ia other words
] ne must make TO Wiz 500 before VignauX makes,
! 400 points. Even at these odds the American
| promises TO be favorite. Offers were made OF
! even money thar SloSsOn would win the Match
by 800 points without takers, and offers OF 80 10
10 and zoe to SO that he would win the match,
were made with like result, Or rather with no
| result al all.
Meanwhile the experts had been making their
! deductions from the score, and began to discV 81
the probable cause OF VignauXs falling off.
he is the best rail player in the world re.
marked some one land when he was In New
York he astontshed every body by the skill OF
hls open play. l can't zee, therefore, why the
balk lines OF the new game should worry him
more than they do SlossoR."
Al once The experts rose TO explain and made
unanimous answer: ut is al IN the difference
-Df their methods OF overcoming the oalk lines
Season goes round the table, turning the cor
nerS IN two shots, and still keeping the balls
generally the short one. He does not attempt
tc turn the corners. but reyefses the position
Oh the Dalls by means OF follow Slot. He
psJs M!th ms leIt hand as well as he does VIII
ms Ilgni ana evidently he has practtsad this
method OF reversing The balls to the exclusion
9i tlaS othef method OF turning the corners,
sloSson's method Is better and that is Whera
ne gets tiis present advantage"
III this way ran the opinions Of the eynerts
out 1t was asked, "Why should rot Vignauy
seeing bis mistake, adopt the other method?"
TOO late, declared the experts Either
the reversing or the turniIf shot rsqlres the
incest manipulation and .ong practice. the
skill mainly rests In working the balls into the
right position for making the shots. Vlgnaux
might go TO his hotel TO night and practice the
winning Snot, and succeed Ia It; but when the
match went on tomorrow night he might fail
and it would demoralize him"
Daniel Strauss was little mtider last even
Ing in bis opinion OF NigDauXs superiority, but
It was a tiattering opinion still. He seemed
pretty certain that the French champion would
come to this country soon, and results might
be different. HE is wonderful open player"
quOth Strauss. II remember one night that
be bet me bottle OF wine that he would make
the opening shot from the string ten times III
Shots Pve seen him shoot from the string and
draw his ball from the lower spot TO the upper
Ole. He is the coolest man you eyer saWs Wny
he can land Mr.. Strauss paused fof Strong
liiuStratlOD) he can SIT In chair for two hours
and not say word. The French players don't
IKE MN because he issues challenge to them
every month which none OF them dares to &C.
cept. Bless your soul, l have seen him count
fffty playing with one hand" and Mr.. Strauss
seemed inclined 10 continue his praises of
Nignaux's skill Indefinitely.
You still think he is ar SUPERIOR to Slosson9u
asked The reporter.
Well, don't know. did think SOL an
sWered Mr.. Strauss, reflectvely, "but now /
cont know."-N. 7. Herald, 23d.
THERE is ONE character in .Endymton
"hlch none OF the guessers seem to have
Wor1d, land yet, perhaps, IL is the most obvious
OF mem all. refer TO Lady Montfort, who
helps Endymion all through his career. She is
Intended i'ad for The Hon Mrs Norton, who intro
,aliure 20 get into parliament for Hipb
Nycombe. She did this expressly In orderthat he
might have another chance. IL was on thai
G ,con that Lord Melbourne said to Dtsraeli
zen NE what you want to be-; to which the
INGENIOUS youth answered L want TO he nrtme
m ,aaf ,s La the interval he made his first
SieaI Trend Lord Melbournes wife; and by a
'lrlher ludicrous twist OF Characters and
n rll, Endym1on (Disraen himselD afterward
,ns Ine lady Certainly he has good reason
, rs tLaslsslng that woman has the power to
H' IS L,an success In lfe for without Lady
''essaihgion Mrs Norton and Mrs. Wyndam
,-. WY ne might have been perched on three
eegeu stool 10 the OLD Jewry to-day"
. CHICAGO TENANT informed the owner OF the
nouse ne occupied That the drainage was de-
,eonae ana demanded repairs, which were not
uace' HlS daughter vas barely saved from
tain oJ olphtheria, and the physician de-
h!ta maj she was poisoned by sewer gas A
| tie landlord. ~ "s"'"''
| Lightning has destroyed one of the cables be-