Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-08-24

Mr.. Glass at billiards you want a full meal
in. and YOUR suspenders tied on tight.
The Baer Bros, Bernhard and Marcus,
both play strong game, ana one Oh .ne
/ idiosvncrasies of Bernhard's game IS the
fact that he will give
ANY KIND OF ODDS
to a stranger, but is exacting to hair to
the bows around home And, what's more,
you can count on lots of genuine soclaollity
when the Baer Bros. get around the table
Harry Mcclure is another billiard sclntll-
lator who desires to meet all corners;
Harry has polished off many bashtul ana
unsuspecting drummer at the allurlng
game of billiards A trio of players some
what above the average is seen IN Harry
Wheat, Charlie List and Clarence Ladd.
Mr. Wheat also plays capital cushion
carom game.
Reckoned among the fancy players is DR..
G.. p. Caddle, who has mastered series OF
very complex combinations Among the
other PLAYERS who have1won more or less
renown as billiard players are Harry Stall
man. George Sterling, Ed Hennig, George
T.. House. Welty Bros, VIII Baird, Harry
Cummings, Walter Hall, Harry Whitaker,
George Vardy, Frank Carenbauer. VIII
Kelley, A. d. Gushing, Burt Willis, DR..
George Baird, and William Humes, pro
prietor of the Monarch Billiard Hall. W
Mr.. Humes, perhaps, puts up rather
stronger game than the average player
Mr. Willis speciality is pool playing, as IS
also Mr.. Cummings. Mr.. Delaplaln IS also
seen here to good advantage
Among those in town who have private
tables in their residences are PlatoH Zane
and George X. Wheat The two Stliel
Bros. each have a table also in their houses,
on Main street. A. a. Howell had one IN
his house for awhile, but it has since been
added to the Monarch Hall. OF the home
players Mr. Zane has probably become the
most proficient, and has very easy ana
graceful execution.
The REGISTER reporter while sitting III
the Mcclure House billiard hall the other
dav. smoking a fragrant twenty-five
center(he didn't buy it, 1t was given hlm)
witnessed an amusing spectacle. -Four
Young men were deeply absorbed in game
of billiards, each pulling away at cigar
and as each in turn took up the cue 10
plays, his HAVANA was deposited upon the
RAIL OF THE TABLE,
and the next player coming along, picked
it up, supposing it to be his property. And
so il went on through the game, the play
ers alternately smoking one anothers
cigars, until all trace of each individuals
original weed became lost in hopeless con
fusion.
There is heaps of fun in a billiard hall
watching the different persons who assay
the game. There is the youth who would
win his game by sheer physical exertion.
He executes fell thrust, gouges rent III
the cloth, and creates such sad havoc and
confusion among the disconnected worries
that they refuse to be hereafter concillated
There are two drummers that come to
Wheeling that afford a regular circus 10
the billiard onlooker. One is tall and an
gular, and the other short and abbreviated.
They play an even game-bOth bad,
But THE SHORT ONE
claims eight points as a concession to mis-
size, while the tall one only wants TO give
six on the merits of their respective skill.
Every time they meet they quarrel over
that point. but the billiard nall keeper
charges them up from the time they take
the cue.
The patriarchal player also falls into
line with his catalogue OF pecullarltles
He may be seen with a glorious and glad
beamng from the extremity OF his
prominent facial protuberance watching the
result of a well-intended stroke with all the
ardor and enthusiasm of sweet sixteen. He
is possessed with the idea that contortions
of the body, corresponding with the dlrec-
tiOn in which he wishes the ball TO roll, Will
contribute 10 the desired end. For this rea-
son incautious spectators are more than LA
BILE TO have their toes mangled by the
active heels of veteran, as he suddenly
breaks to the rear in the vain hope to en-
courage the unrespOnsiye sphere 10 that
part of the compass One of the salient
of these respectable play
ers is
THE IMPENETRABLE GRAVITY
with which they make an accidental count,
known in the billiard swim as an ignoble
scratch - The most erratic and unforeseen
carom in the world will be accepted by him
as something expected and played for. The
protest or taunt of his opponent is ignored
witha stolidity of cOuntenance worthy of a
craven image. His most eXecrable acct
dents produce the subimest stOlidity. The
fun engendered in the game of the patrl-
archal player is only equalled by the dude
who executes various enigmatical and oc-
cult manGuvres with his cue, suggesting
the trajectory of the pyrotechnic eccentric
ity known to the multitude as 1.-The grass
hopper" Oh, yes, the billiard hall propri-
et0r sees human nature in chunks.
There is to be seen in this city at present
a sort of revival in the game of billiards.
and il is expected the coming winter will
bring out a number of new and shining
lights.
USTcuTS oE TUE coIDEN EAGLE