The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-17
BILLIARDS.
Vignaux, Schaefer and SlOs-
son are the Contestants.
sLossOY, 581; vIGNAUx, $50.
S 11ne Fine Praying, Good Guns. and
Considerable Enthusiastically
Score Of Runs.
billiard Tournament.

CHICAGO, November 1O.-AH assem-
blage of fully 800 people attended tie
opening game Of the great iourteen-inch
Balk-line billiard tournament. in which
Maurice Yignaux, Paris; Jacob Schae-
fer, New York, and George T. Slosson,
Chicago, are contestants. There was a
large attendance Of.ladies in the boxes
and parquet circle seats, and the solid
business men of the city well repre-
sented. Among the billiard notableS
we're Eugene Garter, of Cleveland; John
Callahan, of Milwaukee,; Parker Byers,
LAFAYETTE, and many others. The WIN
ner of this tournament will be
entitled to receive the whole purse,
$500, and he excess of re-
celptS over expenses. 1t is reported
the prize will aggr egate over So coo. The
tournament was fOrmi lily opened
shortly after 8, by an address by Judge
Gary, Of the Superior Court of Chicago.
AS each of the players was introduced,
a hearty round Of applause was given,
Slosson getting rather the warmest re-
cepiiOn. Wayman McCreery, of St.
Louis, an accomplished amateur, had
been previously agreed on as referee Of
the tournament, and Charles Matthews
served as marker. VigHaux won the
bank, chose the white ball, counted
from lay of, but stopped at one. Slos-
son did no better; both played nervous.
In the next inning they got good posi-
tons, but lost them by imperfect play.
In the ninth inning Slosson be-
gan to show something of good
form. He did some very handsome
Nursing in the lower left-hand corner.
and rolled up 30, failing on an awkward
two cushion effort. Vignaux responded
with a handsome run of 81, in which a
short draw when his own ball was
frozen to the cushion, elected applause.
SIosson now played with care and pre-
cisIon. and reeled off a succession of
fine shots, stopping at p and leaving
Vignaux an almost impossible shot
After blank inning, Slosson improved
the twelfth for a run of SO, which
brought his score up to 139 against IS
tor Vignaux. The Partisan then went
to grass on an, easy one and Slosson
again took possession Of the balls for
%, which gave him lead of an even
hundred.
Vignaux took heart at Slosson's miss
of an easy shot and in his fourteenth
inning made his best run. forty one,
which made his total 100, SloSSon hay
ing l59. SloSson now lapsed into loose
playing for an hour or two and his OPP
ponent let fifteen go by with only six.
at the next opening he frooze
to the red ball at eli ht, but
counted from the lay off and kept OF,
until he had accomplished the best run
up to this stage, rs, and gained lead.
His seventeenth melted him SO and the
score now stood 2l4 TO 176 in Yignaux S
favor; SlosSon now made a fine rally
and put IN his largest run. which again
gave him lead. For the first time, his
stroke seemed what il ought TO be. and
be PLAYED ike a race horse. Great
cheering greeted the shot which passed
Vignaux's best run. He ended at 50 in
q very hard masse shot.
The call was Slosson 265, Vignaux
2l4. Small results followed for little
time and SIosSOn was first TO break the
spell, which he did with a handsome
run Of ~, and the score stood: Slosson
351. Vignaux, 286. Slosson, in the
tWenty-irst inning, did some more ex-
cellent york, from which he realized
60. Score: Slosson, 42t, Vignaux 268.
The balls were left dead safe for
Vignaux, whereas SlOsson found an
opening on the ODD inning. andimprOved
it to the extent of 25; VigDaux, in the
twenty-third inning, emergeS from OBJ
security and rather laboriOusly produced
a run of 81, slipping up on miscue.
Score: Siosson 446, Yinaux 335.
SlOssOn' 5 run Of 26 in the 25th inning
was supplemented by 81 by Vignaux,
who stopped on q very hard draw. Two
innings later Slosson went to his last
string with q run of Al, so that the
marker called SlOssOn 531, Vignaux 800.
The Freedman run of 40 in the 10Th
inning made the game again look
as 1t brought him up to within
101 points OF his opponent. But Slosson
came promptly forward with 63 and
needed but five points more. He missed
an easy three-cushiOn shot and gave
VignauX another opening which he i'm
proved By playing his best billiards,
and making the best run Of the game.
SlossOn watched his play with painful
the big man approached
the century point and when the marker
called zone hundred" the house rang
with cheers. Vjgnanx stopped at LOG on
u tnIscue, and Slosson ran out with his
I've necessary points.
Schaefer and Vignaux play tO-mOr-
row night and Schaefer and SiosSon
WeGneSday~n4g
Slosson-I. Is, 0. 0. Il. 6, 0, %. 81, 0.
IS. %, 10. 9, T. 50. 8, II, 1. So, p, is, ?, IS,
0. IL. l, 63, 5.
Yignauk-1, 1918. 1.0.1. 81. 0.
0. l. Al, 8. rs, 50. ,. %. II, is, c, 81, O, 3.
81. 10, o. 20, log.
Highest Yignaux IS. 81, 100.
II 80.
Winners average-19 ll-3l.
Losers average-l7 24-31.
Time of game hours and 20 minutes.
Wants Judgment