Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-21
GREATEST ON EARTH
Is What They say Yignaux, the French.
man, is as n Billiard
Player.
The Greatest Record Ever Made Was
That in the NignanN-sIossun
Game.

Nh' ''tNs lNsins NOV. ~ NlOSebn ana .
NignauN met again tonight IN The halk .
line tournament, before q large audience. (
The game was OF especial consequence,
II Slosson won IL, he captured the big pot /
OF money, while should Vignaux win. I
there would Still be chance TO tic All .
around, II Schaeier beat Slosson to.mor
row night. In the betting, which was
quite brisk, NignutiS commanded odds OF
Sl00 TO $50 Slosson appeared IN close
fitting cardigan Jacket, while Vignaux
DOTTED his black dress coat and played In
his shlrt-sleeyes.
The bank for the lead was won hy the
Partisan, who quickly gathered the balls
on the left hand rail, where they lined
after the ninth shot, aud he failed on /
masse shot. Slosson found them fairly
grouped but lined them ON his drst shot.
lie made maSse to the cushion and
counted, securing n good position thcrc-
by, and soon organized the worries at the
head rail, and by iudicious and careful
drives TO the sides and end, ne beat the
record of the tournament for the biggest
opening run, which ended with -, with
the miss OF an easy direct carom.
He left NignauN very hard cross
table cushion shot, which he made, but
after making the second shot the balls
broke absolutely safe and he stopped.
Sosson's run OF II In the second inning
ended with the miss OF very mean draw
shot when his ball was against the rail.
The call was: SloS>on l0l, Nignaux H.
When NignauX went 90 the bat in his
third inning he found the balls very stub
hornly incliued and had a succession of
the toughest breaks, but he over
came them with much skN and
he kept on clubbing out billiards. The
balls stopped In line at least dozen
times, compelling him to play masse and
bank shots, but he proved equal TO every
emergency and played as If he would
never stop. After IL time the balls grew
more tractable, and at 100 he had hand
some balk-lne position AT the lower end
of the table and held it for twelve shots;
! then nc changed TO the side rail and kept
! on. When he beat his own high run Of
! lG2 the audience chcered vigorously He
/ stopped at 1915 on an easy one-cushiou
shot. AZ Slusson's first Shot the balls
lined up safe on him and he missed. The
call was now, NignauN 20G, Slosson l0l.
VignauX made a terrible draw nearly the
length of the table for the opening shot
of his fourth inning and stopped at thirty
two on an easy spread.
Slosson bad to 90 round the table, and
he missed.
The French Terror now cracked out
another big run, banking his billiards as
though nothing could be easier At 80 he
narrowly missed simple masse. Slosson
could do nothing in his next two Innings,
and VignauX missed long one-cushion
shot, with english In his sixth, at the
end of which inning the score was 33I 10
,lll i'm his favor NignauN caught
on again In his seventh inning and
pounded out some more stunning billiards
There WAS very little bal6-linc In
this run, but there was some
tremendous executions. There Is
I uothinm TO say of TINS
run, except that it was count, count,
count all the time, with long drives aud
short drives, draws, masses, forces, fol
lows, banks, and all the known
technique Of billiards Slosson, who
saw $4,000 slipping from ms grasp, stood
by and watched has downfall with wan
and hopeless face. When NignauN had
finished the run OF Ia, he was exactly
|, 400 points ahead. Score, jll tc
III. Slosson seemed to feel lighter
hearted, now that he knew
he was beaten In his seventh inning he
played very prcttily until he failed ON
long, ouc-cushlon stroke, anu lelt lnI
, balls In a huddle. NignauN proceeded
to run out the game, having
accomplished the greatest record eyel
[ known at billiards. The game occupied
I one hour and iifty-hye minutes. The feel
/ ing now is that VignauX has underplaye'
In practice and that he is unquestionabl,
the greatest billiard player on earth
Following is the score;
YignauS-9, ., 100, ~, ~, o, ~, 81
F. Total 600.
' Average -, highest runs l9j, i7@.
= SlosSon-77, p, /, o, = :, %. Tota
4 1876,
= Average, ~ ca.
, Highest run, II.
= Wayman McCrccry OF st. Louis, relere
In the balk-line tournament, and Capt. A
I G. Arson, OF the Chicago ball club, playe'
. match-game OF 800 points, fourtoen-inc
= balk.line, for $50 a side nc Slosson's ROOF
e to-day. Arson won by score OF 500 +
4 200
Q Tomorrow Eugene Carter Is TO pla
! Arson fifty points, tbree-cushion carom
a Carter betting $500 10 Si01 that he wins
i, The Rats of Looe.
A mile or so out at sea rises gree
y trian0nlarlv shaped eminencc, callel