The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-03-23
NEWS BY SPECIALS.
The Great Billiard Match at the Fort
-GraphIc Account.
A Duel In Mexico Tnat Was Doubly
Tragical.
Startling Disclosures as 20 tho San
AntoRie Slaughter.
GaInesvllle's Gala Day-Burglars Un-
successful at Ferris.
A Morse-Thief Shot to Death Near
Cleburne.
Joe Foster Goes to Join Ben Thompson
and Fisher.
Othcr Specials From Sundry Sources
FORT WORTH.

FORT WORTH.
FoRr WoRrm. March -[5peoial. The
fire department. OF tnn cry had grand
driil this evening At five O'Clock.
rhe telephone company is putting Ia 40
feet poles IN accOrdRnca With an ordinance
lately paseed by the city.
The county court has ooon busy all day
trying tho case of the wsterworks company
neainsL Lang d Rstilnn for breaking ser.
vice pipes while grriing streets. suit slill
Undecided.
The owners OF Rohball and Richmont
snv they will enter their horses in tho races
on the Sth, 9th, 10th and llth OF April.
A scheme to digs canal from the juuc-
tlon OF the q car fork and West fork OF the
Trinity, IA mile 10 the bricky6id crossing 10
get wster.power, 10 egitating our people.
1t is said that II the scheme IS successful a
number OF factories will be established.
The billardistR here have been on tiptoe
of expectstlon for BONE time to see the
game between stone, Of Dallas, nnd Cation,
of st. Louis, aud are now satisfied. The
game last night was one OF the most inter
es,ing events IN sporting circles ever
held In the For, as was evinoed by
the large crowd and liberal betting
on the resnli. The match WAS o. the
straight game, three balls played on "A l-2
by 0 Brunswick 81 Bake standard table
with monarch cushions. Stone received the
odds of a discount. The game was | 900
poiuts up, for $500 side. AT s O'Clock the
gpectatorg began to assemble and ia Il few
minutes pool ceiling on the event was
begun. great m,ny pools were sold,
Cation seeming ia be The iavorite by small
ODDS. Play was cellen At 800, and cation
winning the lead ohote the white bail, He
failed TO count, and Sloac slcG9eied IN
squeezing counts OUT of The worries. On
the fihh inuiug Cation rolled up IL counts
and Stone took 0 OF lnem
oil In the sans iuping Cation
followed with run OF A. 10 which Stone
respond d with Is sllgle poiut. IN hYo
more inniugs Cation nad added Gl TO his
string and Stone had culy made s. and thus
fell behind The next our inning gave Cat
ton 8 and the Dallas boy 81 nuttous. Then
came the sixteenth inning. and the 81.
Louis boy built up his score by adding lb6,
against which Stone - Jred 9. Four more
innings gave Cation . buttons and three
goose cegs, and Stcne 80 points. Ia
the iorty.hrst inr-Ls Cation added
Stone pUss after scoring ii. passed out on foul.
Cation then scored 5 and Stone followed
by jumping of. la the next seven innings
the st. Louis boy scoTed % points during
which time Stone nursed them in good
shape BY piling on Ia. Uatton opened the
fifteenth inning by carefully getting the
iyories on the rail and held them there un-
Ill he had counted 103 when the balls frsZe.
He counted from the string, howeIer' and
after adding IL more to his run, he went
ont ON difficult masse. Stone followed
with 35 we'll played opsn table counts. For
ak innings Cation now played miseraoly,
adding but IL to his score, Stone scoring dJ
ia the sans time. On tho iitty.seveD'h In
ming Stone got the balls on the rail
and after counting up l2O points tue
balls froze. He counted from the strinea
but passed out after adding three moss 70
his run. On the hfty-ninth inning CA,ls
made q mscue, when Stone followed "
rolling up l5, after which his bal Jumped
over the object ball causing him % m!a
10 was now 1890 and O Tecets va! ordereI
by the referee, the score stood, stone Oh,
Cation 800. The interfasslon lasted about
twenty minutes during which time every
body indulSed freely in irssl AIR and olhef
refreshments. When play was called Cat
ton started out with a big 0, and .t'ne
worked the balls to the rail and the famii'
lar click was heard 10 the tune n lOl
roinis, stona followed with enother
big goose egg Cation then iailed TO count
so did Stone. The sixty-third lGniug was
made uss OF by Cation by his scoring
twenty two pointp, which stone followed
by some fine open table phy which wouio
have done credit to any player in the pro
fession. He worked thiIty-ihres points out
OF the ivories ut open table play and then
got them on the rigbs rail aud got
his run up TO sixty-three when the balls
froze. He failed to count from the string.
The betting at this stage of the game oe
came greatly in favor of The Dallas iayorite
a. he was now nearly three hundred points
anead, aud making courta on each inning
After Stones run OF eixty y-lhree, Cation
txfn
aud succeeded in rolling up
twenty points, then eighty
seven aud ten. 10 these
three innings Stone had scored l3. In the
sixty. eighth inning Cation opened by easily
bringing the balls to the upper end Oh me
LETT rail, aud after getting them IN GOOD
nursing position, he stopped moment anu
said: II will bet $50 ostch him before he
gets TO 700" Ia q second his oits1 VAS COW
cred. The score OF this time STOOD Stone
t92, Cntten 39l, so, OF coarse, the bet seemed
very foolish on the part OF Cation but nc
went to work again rs soon as his D. uonei
was cover %. 'Chck.n "clck," click"
went the sound of the counts e. the
worries scarcely moved under the dainty
strokes OF the player. One hundred was
called and the applause was oeaiening.
Slowly and cautiously the 81. Louis boy
nursed the spheres, and ere long the mark
er called 200, when the crowd "ieirly TOOK
the roof from the house" Al 2Ol the sc =
er called out, "score even" Cation turned
and at oucs asked for bis $50 aud its cover
which was handed 10 him amid destening
cheers. He then said, II will now bet ihe
$l00 l win the match" This bet was COW
cred In an Instantly Stone's friends, who
never tiinched at any bet aud covered all
amounta as fast as offered. Ex.
citemsnt now ran high, and bets
were being made rapidly all
confidence seeming TO come 10 Cations
friends. Cation resumed ilsy and con
/ nuei the easy "click" until be ran the
count up TO 26s when he slipped up on a
"mssse." Stone followed with two counts
Eight innings more gave Cation but "
counts and five zeros. Stone IN the same
time piled up rs counts among which wes
run OF So. For ten straight innings Cat on
made little or nothing. making but -.
Stone in the meantime kept up bis
brilliant open table play and IN
the came ten innings With three rurs
Of 40, 81, AZ, aud smaller couuta
ran his score far ahead OF the st. Louis
bovs. On the eighty-sevenih inning Cat
ton scored IS, which ne followed in the next
with 50. Stone made IL in the 81 ne two
inniugs. Cation then scored three zsfos.
while etone stacked mp b. IL was now
nearly daylight. and the plsyers began TO
show signs OF fatigue. even noidins at
times 10 spite Of themselyee. IL now be-
cams test OF endurance and sfler making
a run OF 50. Cation played
with little or no caution snd With one ex-
cenfsoo of a run Of rs he did not count over
II In anv single innings /, the fnish- The
.soosecssr were numerous. he scoring
:, ver IN succession and fairly whiting under
he efT,st. 5ecns slso e1Dsed e1Fr9 q
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