Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-10-12
GENERAL SPORTING.
Billiards

Harry" Cole having leased the fremont
Billiard Hall, ten tables, in Galveston, Tex
as, has signalled bis entree as proprietor by
i,positing, through his hacker in Houston,
$3.50 in cash. to play Maggioli, of New Or
!eans, match of 5000 points, in three
nights, for $500 aside, and offers to play in
any good Texas town, naming Dallas, Fort
Worth, Houston or San Antonio, while
Maggiol desires to play in New Orleans.
The Philadelphia Pool Tournament, for
second-rate players, was concluded Sept 30.
The result is as follows: Craft won s, lost
o. Reiber won 7, lost ]; Wharton and Man
nelly won 5, lost 3; Schwartz won 1, lost
l. Woods won 3, lost s. "Pud' won ., lost
!; Whitman and Crone won l, lost Z
Margin, the second best player in France,
although having retired from active BUSH
ness, upon a competency amassed as the
proprietor OF Partisan cafe, still shows his
tondness for the game in giving lessons in
Paris, and driving into the gay city from
his rural home for that purpose.
There was considerable talk about Weis-
CARRIER and Ritz being matched again this
season, but their hackers claim that it is too
late in the season for them to row. 1t is
generally understood that they will meet
again next season for 81 900 side.
Slosson is organising for his Chicago
room an amateur tournament, open to all
Chicago, for prizes running from $50 to
300, and contemplates to inaugurate the
same in November.
The body of Frank Skillman, the Jersey
City amateur who was drowned recently
while out yachting, came ashore upon the
jersey coast near Sandy Hook.
The Palais Royal Rooms, Boston, which
was built ten years ago, cost S64, 900. This
rubs out the New York White Elephant en-
tirely in expense for building and furniture.
Thomas Wallace is reported as being
confined to his bed at Denver Colorado,
whittier he ournied recently in quest ofre-
lief from pulmonary troubles.
Pierre Carme, who tor several years has
been q resident of the Mexican capitol, is
said to be in Panama in reduced circum-
stances.
Malone defeated Denning at ball pool at
The International Hotel room, New York,
September %. Score, l6 to 10. Announced
for purse of 800.
Nignaux is engaged in cafe in the out
skirts of the Partisan capital
Sexton recently ran IA at straight rail
Rowing. .
Cambridge University has put two trial
Fights on the water.
The Cambridge University fall scratch"
race came off yesterday.
Concerning the Enright and 0'Connor-
Humphrey and Laing, double scull, mile
and quarter straight away, at Toronto,
October lst the Toronto Globe says:
AS the contestants were all amateurs
they could not row for any strictly monetary
considerations, for fear of becoming profess
SIGNALS, but still their "amateurism" was
not so powerful as to cause them to be at
all anxious to row merely for the hono- of
winning. In short these oarsmen, while
unwilling to conform in their conduct to
the spirit of the law concerning amateurs,
were still 10th to break it in the letter. To
get over the difficulty the gentlemen who
desired to back the contestants Mr.. James
Douglass and Mr.. Joseph Rogers), put up
5000 each in the hands of stakeholder.
The whole stake OF $500 was to be paid
over to the hackers Of the winning pair
0ne-half the sunf-or the amount he put
up-was to 90 back into his own pocket
and with the other $500 he was to buy for
the winning oarsmen two god watches
worth 800 each In addition to this main
stake Mr. Rogers the hacker Of 0'Connor