St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-17
Opening Game Of the FOurteen-Inoh Balk-
Line Billiard Tournament at
Chicago.
Vignaux and slosson Open the Contest
and Play Nervously for the First
Few Innings,
They Finish Twenty-three Innings
the Latter Being Well in
tile Lead.
Some Facts of the Doings of Race
Horses--Money Their Owners
Have Earned.
The Great billiard Match,

game OF the great fOurteen-inch balk-line
billiard tournament, in which Maurice Wig
naux of Paris, Jacob Schaefer of New
York and George f. Slosson of Chicago are
the contestants. There was large attend
ance of ladies in the boxes and the par
uuette circle seats, and the solid business
men of the city were well represented.
Among the billiard notables were Eugene
Carter of Cleveland. John Callahan Of Mil
waukee and Parker Byers of Lafayette.
The winner of this tournament will be en-
titled to receive the whole Of purse of
So, 900 and the excess of receipts
over expenses. 1t is expected the prize
will aggregate over S., 900. The Tournaments
was formally opened shortly after o'clock
by an address by Judge Gary of the superior
court of Chicago. AS each OF the players
was introduced hearty round OF applause
was given, Slossen getting rather the warm
est reception. Wayman McCreery OF st.
Louis, an accomplished amateur, had been
previously agreed on as referee OF the tour
nament and Charles Matthews served as
marker. VignauX won the bank, chose the
white ball and counted from the lay Off, but
stopped at one. Slosson did no better, both
playing nervOusly. In the next inning
both got good positions, but lost them by
imperfect play. Iu the ninth inning Slos-
son began to show something like good
form. He did some very handsome nurs-
ing in the lower left-hand corner, and rolled
up 35, failing on an awkward tWo-cushlon
effort. Vignaux responded with
A HANDSOME RUN
of 81, in which short draw when his ball
was frozen to the cushion, elected applause
Slosson now played with care and precision
and reeled off succession of five shots,
stopping at 81 and leaving VignauX an al
most impossible shot. After blank inning
SlossOn improved the twelfth for a run of
43, which brought his score up to 139 against
So for VignauX. The Partisan then went to
grass on an easy one and SlOsson again took
possession of the balls for 20, which gave
him lead of an even 100. VignauX took
heart at Slosson's miss of an easy shot and
in his fourteenth inning made his best run, Al
which made his total 100. Slosson having
159. Slosson now lapsed into loose play
for an inning or two and his opponent let
the fifteenth go by with only =. At his
next opening he froze to the red ball at
| 8, but counted from the lay Off and
kept on until he had accomplished the best
run up to this stage, rs, and gained lead.
His seventeenth Melted him SO, and the score
stood 214 to TIC in VignauX'S favor. Slos-
| son now made fine rally and put in his
largest run, which again gave him the lead.
| For the first time his strike seemed what ii
ought to be and he played like race-horse.
Great cheering greeted the shot which
passed Vlgnaux's best run. He end ed on
SO on a very hard masse shot. The call was
| Slosson 265, Vignaux 214. Small results
| followed. For little Slosson was first to
| l. +l,a- ;ol, Il
some run of II, and the score stood Slosson
351, Vignaux 235. Slosson in the twenty
first inning did some more excellent work
from which he realized SO. Score: Slosson
421, VignauX 2S6. The balls were left
dead safe for VignapX, whereas Slosson
found an opening in the twenty-second in
ming and improved it to the extent of 25.
Vignaux, in the twenty-third inning,
emerged from obscurity and rather labor
iously produced a run Of II, slipping up OF
miscue. Score: Slosson 446, Vignau1
| 1856.
sLOsS oN'S RUN
of 26 in the twenty-fi fth inning was sup
| plemented by 81 by VignauX, who slipped
on very hard draw. Two innings latel
Slosson went to his last string with run Of
Al, so that the marker called SlOSSOn, So ;
VlSlduX, o3U. ne CTellcHlldil ) Illll VI iU
in the twenty-ninth inning made the game
again look doubtful. as it brought him up
within 1O1 points of his opponent, but
Slosson came promptly forward with GO,
and needed but 5 points more. He missed
an easy three-cushion shot and gave Wig
naux another opening, which he i'm
proved by playing his best billiards and
made the best run of the game. Slos-
son watched his play with painful
solicitude as the big man approached the
century point, and when the marker called
''100' the house rang with cheers. Wig
naux stopped at 106 on miscue, and Slos-
son ran out with his five necessary points.
Schaefer ana Vignaux play tomorrow
night and Schafer and Slosson Wednesday
night Score:
sosson-1, Is, o, o, IA, 0, 6, 0, So, 81, 0, 49,
co. 10, 0, Z, SO, 8, H. l. SO, 25, IT, q 26, 0, Al,
So, &.
vignaux-1, 5, 2, 1, 8, 10. 1, 81, 0, 4, 1, Al,
6, 75 SO, 2, 20, A. IS, 0, 81, 0, 8, 81, u, 0, 40
1O6.
Highest Runs-vignaux, rs, CT, 1O6; Slos-
son, SO, II, SO.
Winners average, 10 11-31: losers average,
II 24-31. Time of game 3:40.