The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-12-19
Stewart Defeats Landy in the Con-
tinuous Pool Match.
HOW BOTH MEN PlAYr n
Landy's Backers Wanted to Make Anothsr \
Match-First Meeting OF the New Base
ball Organization-Onicers Elected and
n Constitution Adopted - Ryan and
Needham Matched.

while Stewart was in fine fettle and Jug
gled the imitation 'ivories" TO perfection.
That is the sum and substance Of the
game between the champions of Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island at the st.
George Hotel last night.
For an hour or more previous to the
opening of the game the admirers of good
pool playing poured into the billiard hall
and found the best accommodations they
could on the benches, chairs and tables,
while not a few of them had TO stand up.
They talked of pool playing in days gone
by, of the present match and Of the merits
of the two men. Landy seemed to be the
favorite with those who had any money,
while the Stewart faction held off and
waited for odds. IL was not until the
game had finally started and Stewart was
a few balls ahead that his supporters
summed up courage enough to loosen
their purse strings and make bet. Then
there was lively display of greenbacks
for a few minutes, but as Stewart forged
ahead the Landy .men began to get weary
and keep what they had left inside their
pockets.
IL was few minutes after o'clock
when the men shook hands and referee
Zimmerman put the triangle of balls in
position. Stewart broke" them and then
Iandy ran d balls and Stewart cleaned
the table. In the next game Landy could
get but one aud Stewart took the other IL.
In the third Landy only made a scratch
| and Stewart had the whole 10 in his rack.
10 was evident that Landy wasn't in il"
| unless he braced up wonderfully. So it
went until the first half of the game was
completed when "A rest OF 10 minutes was
taken. At that time 10 racks had been
played and the score stood Stewart, lO6;
Laudy, 80.
There was little hopes for Landy when
the second half opened, but he went at 1T
as if he meant business and reeled of the
whole ID for a starter. Then he fell off
again, but recovered later on until at the
twentieth rack he was but 80 balls behind.
This was the nearest Landy could get to
Stewart and when the game was finished
he was 45 behind, the score standing,
Stewart 200, Landy l55. The score was as
follows:
stewarte, IL, l5 O. H. II, IL, 1913 TO- 0, H. o. q
s. SnH iS q, 10. f. s.i5SS' " ''' .
Immediately after the match had been
finished and the stake money had been
turned over to Stewart, Ernest Hunold
offered TO back Landy for another match,
to be played to-day, for $50 a side, and
placed $25 in Jimmy Daley's hands rs a
forfeit. Stewart fiunked out and quit"
as the saying goes, I" dead cold" He re-
marked that he was "stuck on himself
now" and didn't think he would play
again unless it was for 5000 side. OF
course Stewart, being the challenged
party, had right to name the figures at
which he would play again. But he could
at least have shown the spirit of
sportsman, especially in view of the facts
which attended the making OF the first
match with I.andy. In this connection 1t
is not out of place to give view of the
inside facts which attended the making of
huN atnh m
went to Stewart on Monday and offered
to back Landy against him for 300. Stew
art said he didn't have that amount of
money and could only make match for
s25 side. Hunold let him have his way
and the match last night was for s25 a
side. In view of this fact it seems a little
out of place for Stewart to raise the cry of
500 side now when he had the opportu-
nifty to make it for that amount at the
start and wouldn't.
The championship of New England
which Landy has held for years was not
and there is some talk Of making n big
match of 600 balls for $500 side and the
New England championship, to be played
sometime next month.
Peter Maher the Irish champion seems
to be a pretty tough customer after all, and
the general prediction Is that he will make
the best of them hustle If he gets after
them. The showing made by Maher on
Thursday night when he Knocked out
Jack Smith and "Sailor" " Brown, both
inside of three minutes, was indeed are
markable one Now his coat is trailing
along the ground, and he dares Corbett to
tread on it. The good-looking Californian
appears TO be pretty well stuck on the pc
destal where he stands. III he is unsuc-
cessful in his attempt to get n match with
Mitchell he can find no good excuse for
refusing TO meet Maher who has now
shown himself to be worty of recognition
among the tip-toppers.
The new base ball organization is to be
known as the National League and Amer
ican Association of Professional Base Ball
Players. At the meeting of the new
league at indianapolis yesterday, Nick
Young was elected president, secretary
and treasurer of the new league, and Zach
Phelps solicitor. The headquarters will
remain as in the old league, at Washing
ton.
The board of directors was drawn by lot,
and was composed of members equally
from tho eastern and western circuits. The
members are Brush OF Cincinnati, Won
der Abe of St. Louis, Hart of Chicago,
Soden of Boston, Won der Horst of Balti-
more, and Scanlan of Washington. Presi-
dent Young has yet TO name the schedule
and playing rules committees.
The new league is organized on an iron
clad ten-year basis, and no club can be
dropped without the unanimous consent
of the clubs, including the one to be
dropped, and "A three-fourths vote is neces-
sary To change the constitution.
The terms of settlement with the clubs
dropped are said TO have been satisfactory
TO All parties, but President Young is au-
thority for the statement that the exact
figures will not be given out for some
time. IL is understood that Boston re-
seived So 500: Philadelphia, $4,000; Co
lumbus, $4,000; Chicago, $4,000 and Mil
waukee, 5000, a total of sl05,5OO The
Milwaukee figures may be few thousand
more.
Each club must play twelve or ffore
games with every other club each season.
| The admission is TO be 80 cents general,
and - cents special The schedule com
mittee will meet the first Wednesday in
March at New York city. The plan Of
two series of seventy-two games each i'm
season will doubtless be tried.
Tommy Ryan OF Chicago, champion
welterweiRht of the world, and Danny
Needham, ex-champion, have been put
| doun for "A match before tha EaIifornia