The evening world., 1888-12-28
TWILL BE A BIG TOURNEY.
THE WORLDS CRACK BILLIARDISTS EX-
PECTED HERE In FEBRUARY.

PECTED HERE In FEBRUARY.
A Handicap Balk-Line Game said to he
Agreed ~Upon-Nike Donovan's show In
Williamsburg To-Nisht-4ew York Ath-
letic Cinb Games aud Other Coming
sporting Events Of Interest.
A tournament is what is needed to revive
the dropping interest in billiards in this city.
and n tournament is what the big guns say
they are going to have. 1t has been planned
for after the holidays, probably in February,
and will in point of talent and amount Of
prizes far ~outstrip anything Of the kind ever
held in this country. The leading lights
here. Slosson, Sexton and DAILY. are in the
chem Q up to their ears, and II is promised
that II will not be allowed to fizzle as il did
last Fall. 1t is proposed to play o handicap
balk line game for o sweepstakes, the en-
trance fee to be $3.50 or $500. The Bruins
wick Bake Company will give $4,000 il
necessary and n prize to represent the
championship of the world, to add to the
inducements for the contestants. 1t is
thought that Schaefer will thus he forced to
enter the game and submit TO the balk line
handicap, instead of a handicap in points, as
ne luSlbteu upon ptlOTt. luo tnico ohC
| PLAYERS, Vignaux, Plot and GARNER, will en-
ter, it is thought. and these. with Shaefer,
Sexton, Slosson, Carter and DAILY, will make
eight contestants, which would require
twenty-eight games, aside from ties, to de-
lines would probablT be vignnux, siosson
and Schaefer, IA inch, and the rest 10 inch.
This would make the runs nearly even and
would give the public an opportunity of see
ing each man at the table about the same
L lanUth pf tima Saxtpn nalv and Carter
would prefer cushion carroms, but will enter
and punch straight carroms with the back
end OF their cues. II necessary.
Tonight Palace Hall, Williamsburg. will
again be the scene of excitement over boxing
| contests. The occasion will be Mike Dono-
vans tournament, and 1t is expected all who
| 90 there will have their fiji of fun and
hilarity. There will be any amount Of clever
boxers, and us many bouts will be had as can
be crowded into the few hours of the even-
ing. Sailor Brown will endeavor TO knock
Denny Butler out of time in the four rounds
allotted to them, and Professor Mike will
wind up with Johnny Reagan. Another
contest, Queensberry rules, between Jack
EARLY and Walter Gensby, colored. for n
purse offered by their friends. They have
chosen to meet this way and try to settle the
with skin gloves. Beside the entries pub
lished heretofore are George Butler, VIM.
O'Connell, Mike German and Mike Tuthill,
light weights, and Pete Gleason, feather
weight. The entertainment is announced to
begin at 8 p. NJ.
Johnny. Reagan and Charley Norton are
both working hard to prepare themselves for
their fight in Palace Hall next Thursday
evening. All Powers has been working
Reagan for some time, and has him down
pretty fine. Norton's friends say he will
show up in good condition.
The principal topic for discussion in the N.
Y. A. G. these days is the Union games, which
are to occur Jan. 10, in Madison Square Gar
den. The New Yorks are going to turn out
some fine men to represent them in tue
games. About twenty men are giving Mike
Donovan all he can do. and many more are
getting into trim for the fencing. contests.
Trained athletes will be here from all over the
country and about every athletic club of any
size in the country will be we'll represented.
There will be 30 many entries that the
Union has decided to run of the trial heats
in the afternoon and save confusion in the
evening. so that those who attend the evening
games will see the best amateur athletes in
the land come together and battle for the
supremacy. 1t is difficult for those who are
unfamiliar with amateur athletics to appreci-
ate the interest which is taken in them. 1t is
safe to predict that the games of the Union
will eclipse anything of the kind ever before
held in this country.
Jake Hyams showed up at the Police Gdzett
Office yesterday afternoon in good shape after
tough as a pine knot, and does not show the
punishment he received. He is anxious to
meet McAulife again, and fight under the
rules of the London prize-ring.. Jake is q
clever man, but his tricks fell before the
American way OF fighting and McAuliffe's
strength and skill. McAuliffe and Billy
Madden left for the West last night.
Joe McAulife, the champion heavyweight
Of the Pacific slope, and Peter jackson,
colored, the champion of Australia, fight
tonight in San Francisco.
Cleveland sports are making efforts 70
bring about a finish fight between Their
Reddy Gallagher and Tom Lees, the Austria.
liam. They are willing to have it take
place near New York and have plenty OF
money to back their man.