Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-03-18
Caroms.
Pretty as a picture.
No betting was allowed.
The lace curtains loom up.

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The lace curtains loom up.
Minors not allow in the hall.
Donovan is a lightning calculator.
The young "sports'' were all there.
Everybody admired the new tables.
Charley Drake laughed and laughed.
Donovan used his own balls and cue.
Col. Orr, of Virginia, was a looker-on.
Several more matches are on the string.
Donovan did not play his usual game.
Coons and VOORHEES, staid over to see
the game.
Diamonds flashed upon the fingers of
both players.
o. R. Waite thought it was better'n
chicken fightin'.
The tables were smaller than Donovan
is accustomed to.
Some Of the candidates were there
nursing the boys.
Walker Ragsdale said he would like to
carom on Ed. Wade.
Gene Tomlinson is one of the "swift-
est bar tenders on earth.
Pete Cain suggested that they use Perry
Diggs' nose for a s'bridge."
Carter has put In water. We don't see
what he is going to use it for.
Some of the boys thought Donovan a
dude, but he Amt: he's a dandy.
Mexico's amateur is a daisy billiard
player but was not in good form.
Parties who want a quiet game of bill
lizards should drop in at Carter's.
=. 1t will be a long time before such bill
lizards will be played in Mexico again.
!, Donovan says Mexico's amateur Is thu
= best in the state, outside of st. Louis.
The paintings are tasty, beautiful an'
far above the average found in saloons.
Jess. Sinclair said he would tackle tn
winner if he could use Sam Baskin for
cue.
"The Unknown" was Justify cheere
q when the games were announced in hi
e favor.
9 Lewis Phillip; "Dot eesh goot, dom
q ct, hey. Wish Carse and Pomp vel
10 here"
If Carter had the statuary he woul
have as fine a saloon as there is in S
Louis.
-. Quite q number of Mexico's best cit
zens who are admirers of the game we
present.
n Some of the boys like pool better thu
Q billiards, and some preferred "draw"
he either.
de A little reporter was circulating aroun
st inquiring if anybody had heard of any la
ur romances.
n Johnny Murphy and Al Goode came
RS from St. Louis a week in advance to {
ird cure good seats.
III Mart Roberts refereed the game; An
re- Winscott was scorer and Sam Edwal
!" called the shots.
Carter is a great ~favorlte not only W
the leading horse men all over the W
but with the entire public.
lilo Sam Edwards left eye would W
,sd every now and then at Gene Tomlins'
left but Gene paid no attention to it.
,m. Prof. Harry Shaw, the greatest ia
per lfnger-shot in the world, and his wife
4th probably give an exhibition here shor
lse. 1t was rumored that Life Norris
In John Baynham were in town, but I
ing didn't clash up" Wrong time OF yesr
not you, gentlemen.
Dali Bayliss Collins and his big diam
ZIG were there in full force to assist In m
ing the opening a rousing one. He &
Ivy ceeded admirably.
-, Ian Jones and Willard Potts di
"bank'' much OF the game, but C
very near getting into a row over
"a would marry first.
'r.v Once, when "The Unknown's'
~ ON~N
ha;- went spinning around over the table
core queer manner, Ed Wilson remarked,
,bile English, you know" whereupon seq
Or as of the boys dropped"
In When asked if he was going to vii
Lteur the game, "Uncle" Billie Waddine
had said he was bsdse on such things.
easy he never took any interest in but
game of billiards in his life, and that
in New York, at Harry Hills, where
,ued. beautiful ladies were engaged In a
fifth, handed contest. "Ah, they were
'end- ers," said Uncle Billie; 81 watches
all night; stepped over to the
s, O., counter and got a bite to eat, return
0,s, the billiard room and stayed there
- . O'Clock in the afternoon next day
7 is, tell you, old boy, a game between
would draw In this town" And ~
O. 2 Billie hoped off and got a ciga'
1, 0, strolled down street.