The Society news. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-18??, 1883-12-15

Everybody will be glad to hear that
Maud S. is not all broken up yet,
and that the report that she is in any
wise permanently disabled very much
needs verihcation.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PADDY RYAN AND VIM SHERIFF.
appear in sparring bout for the first
time in public at the Natatorium,
Chicago, ILL.,, tonight preparatory
to starting on tour, under Charley
Davies management.
WALLACE Ross last week received
cablegram notifying him that he
had been matched to row George
Bubear on the Thames, and he will
leave for England IN few days.
The first of series of three
billiard matches between Edward
Mclaughlin Of Philadelphia and
Randolph Heiser of New York was
played in the former city on We'd
nesiay evening, and resulted in
victory for Mclaughlin by a score
of 900 to 1874. Mclaughlin made
sos points in the last run, the third
best on record, Vignaux, the French
man having made 1881 and George
+. Slosson I,Io3, both in Paris IN
1880.
HE JERSEY City HEIGHTS G.. C.
announce series of competitions at
clay-plgions to take place on their
grounds, at Martin, N. j., on Christ
mas-day. The chief events will be
the shoots for two valuable medals
presented by the Llgowsky Company,
one representing the championship
of New Jersey and the other the
championship Of New York Harbor,
and to be governed by the following
conditions: 10 be shot for by teams
Of five men from organized clubs,
each contestant to shoot at ten SIM
giles and five pairs, at 10 and IS yards
respectively ~ o.. Of shot and 1otb
Io-bore guns.
There is considerable chat all over
the country about runs made on the
rail in billiards. Some Of the chat
tiers do not seem to clearly under
stand what they are talking about.
Thus they speak about the 600
Schaefer made against Slosson in
Chicago, in 1879. That is the third
best run in game Of record, but i
was not strictly and Professionally a
run on the rail. Schaefer lost the
rail two or three times during it.
Losing it is a popularity of his. Ii
in three or four shots he succeeds in
bringing the balls together again, he
will make good-sized run ; if not,
he will soon quit. Vignaux's 1881
in Paris was all rail, and so was
Slosson's 1903 up to the eleventh
hundredth shot, wherein he froze by
ball settling back in a masse hole.
Vignaux never froze, as he took
ample time. His run was made dur
ing three nights. 1t took him about
two hours and half altogether.
Slosson's was made in 54 minutes,
and he played 50 fastthat the marker S
tongue was almost hanging out Of
his mouth, so parched had he become
in trying to shout out the counts as
fast as the American made them. A
Chicago paper, referring to the run
of TIC, recently made by Cation,
sta.es that "it is well-known that
Schaefer made 700 in practice
game in a ware-room in this city.
This is nearly 600 pulled on. Neither
Schaefer nor anyone else has ever
run 900 at three ball caroms in
practice or at any other kind of play.
The run that Schlefer made in the
ware-room referred to, was trat
over 1, 900. 1t was in the Spring Of
1873, and the making of it led tc
his being matched to play Seton al
straight-rail in the following July
and August. This was the match in
which Shaefer's hackers paid forfeit
of 1000.
Small.headed diamond pins, pearl
gold, and silver pins, are thrus
about in the ces of jabots and frill: