The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-30
Vignaux ~Vanquished.

NEW York, May "a.
The evening game was between
Viynaux and Maurice Daily. TIL
meeting of these men had been look
ed forward to with great interest, OF
account OF their known ability a
cushion carom players. Z
At SIS, when the game began
there was present the largest number
of spectators that had witnessed any
of the games. The seats on the main
floor We're all occupied, the gallery
was comfortably filled and the stage,
where seats are reserved for ladies
and their escorts, was crowded, abou,
l 200 being present.
.Vignaux, who resembles the late
CHARTS Fechter in the "Corsican
Brothers." was the first to put in an
appearance. He was accompanied
uy his faithful henchlnan, Dan
Strauss, who informed the reporters
that "Maurice was we'll" DAILY was
unaccompanied, and like his oppon-
ent was in fall evening dress.
Thomas Foley vas the referee.
Daily won the string for the lead
and chose the white ball, but missed
fromthe spot. Vignaux also missed,
and the opening inning seemed to
predict a tame and slow game.
This was dispelled, however, when
Vignaux started in for his sixth in
ming. The sound of the markers
voice as he successfully called out the
points made up to 43, and an un-
pleasant effect on Daily who made
but one point in the succeeding in
ming. %
Daily reached double figures for
the first time in the eighth inning
and then only for 10. The crowd,
however, was for DAILY Through
thick and thin" and his successful
strokes were greeted with cheers and
his failures with a buzz Of signs and
obs!
In the twenty-second inning DAILY |
made a six cushion shot that made |
the people cheer so loudly that it
might be heard in Union Square,
three blocks distant.
The nineteenth inning saw Daily
do the finest and most delicate one
cushion bsnk-nursihg yet displayed
by any of the players. The balls
were on the upper rail aud for nine
teen strokes the balls We're not moved
five inches.
Vignaux was interested in that
mode of playing cushion caroms, as
ne evidently had not thought of rail
lursing for the game. He mopped
lis forehead and face continually
with his handkerchief and muttered
na!edictions on the balls, the table
md himself, to the amusement of
Dan Strauss.
Once during the evening Vignaux,
Who did not like the heat of the
and Daly's battery, betook him
elf out of doors for a cooling. +.
VignauX's points throughout the
anne were gathered by open table
and the curse of the balls as
hev sped over the green cloth made s
ngles and curves that would puzzle
professor of geometry. f;
In the ninetit tn inning Daily ran
nto the lead, and the people cheered s
nd appIauded for several minutes so D..
,udly that Vignaux, whose face had !
hanged its color a halfa dozen times |
4 as many seconds, refused to con- I
nue. the game until the noise had !
When he did go to the table
was oDly to miss, and the result of S
lie shot caused him to become I
'antic. I
Nine. Vignaux occupied "a box on [
ne side of the hall and Mrs. DAILY t
as seated in another directly oppo- l
te. Both kept scores and divided l
leir time between watching each t
her and the game. DAILY, who bad b
aged brilliantly throughout, had c
,tained the sympathy ofthe crowd, e
Re of whom looked at the MOTTO y
lat adorns the wall over the stage v
I'd shouted the words upon it: Tex a
New York"
Though the play was slow, the cx
of the men was good and big
eaks we!e scarce, because the men
ished to ''play them safe' on one G.,
lother. DAILY, whose nerves seemed
iron, never ceased to count where =.
a thing was possible, and the IL
forts of the Frenchman to cause a
pture were without avail and Daily 81
won by fourteen points.
Throughout the game both men q
d complained of the balls, which
ey said were 81 heavy as to lie I'M VI
ntrollahle, and at the finish, as the y"
'rker was taking them off the
Die, Vignaux made a rush for them o
d said: II will have them exam
ed" He probably thought that ly
d had been put into the balls 10
Ike them heavy, and, like the =,
all boy with the drum, wished to -;
7~estigate. 8
t was thought better that be
,uld spoil a fine set of balls that lii
go away with the impression than
had been defrauded Of the game -