St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-13

thrice, tapped its wings, rose from its
ashes and flew towards the corner Of
Canal and Randolph streets, where it
squatted under the Barnes house. After
keeping room there for time, Foley
took new quarters at 81 South Clark
street Uhe Grand opera house build
ing): next he went to the
northeast corner Of Clark and Lake
streets in the summer of 1880, aud
last year he opened the room he now Oc-
cupies at al Madison street, which, al
though not the largest, is the most re-
munerative he has ever presided over.
thanks to the exceptional standing of
its patrons and to the close and thought
full attention the proprietor bestows
upon them. He has nineteen tables
days; but he once had thirty in the
days when thirty-fve were high. His
thirty-table room was opened on Jan. %,
1878, and Chicago reporters, whose forte
is in making estimates of this kind, fig
ured the number of people who visited
the room on the opening day, between
the hours of 10 in the morning and IL
at nighk, as 100000, which gave others
a chance to figure that, for this number
to get in, thirty-fve persons had to go
out every minnie! Foley is Chicago
an from his pet bunion to the tonsure
that age and an old hat are filing at the
top OF his head and. if that city wants
anything that is big or grand, Foley
will build it up for her, if the materials
are to be had.
AS a BilliardEst.
Foley's career as public player be-
gan in 1855, when, in Metropolitan hail,
Chicago. he beat Charles A. Frink in
two 1,00O-point four ball games for $3.50
a side each. June Ia to 81 following, in
the tournament for the championship of
Illinois, held in Smith & Nixon's hall,
Chicago, he defeated Rhines, Coan, Fer
guson, LIE Brun, Davis, Masters and
%, in Bryan hall, he defeated the late
John W. Coon for $500 a side by l,5OO to
1863, the latter having given odds Of
400. Rhines having challenged Foley
for the championship and $3.50 side,
they played in the same hall Oct. IL,
and Rhines got 1,06l out of 1880. In
September of 1866 Foley took part in the
tournment for the championship of the
champions at the Hippotheatron, this
city. wherein he made the sec
ond highest run and the highest
single average, but got no better place
than tie for fourth, fifth and sixth
prizes with John FraWley and the late
G. B. Hubbell, the late Cyrille Dion
getting first place, and Z. j. Plunkett.
OF Baltimore, and Tim Mccarthy, Of
Fort Wayne, Ind, being tied for second
and third prizes. Rhines again chal-
lenged Foley for the Illinois champion
ship and $3.50 a side. They played in
Crosby's Music hall, Chicago, Oct l5,
1866, and Rhines this time got ,225 out
of 1900 Foley's term as champion ex-
PRED in the summer OF 1867, and there
was new tournament in June of that
year, Foley leaving the field free to
those he had beaten, and virtually re-
firing from the arena. But he was not
to remain idle. In October Of 1868 he
happened to be in CINCINNATI, and SO
did John Frawley; and as we happened
to be there, aLso, it deyolYea upon us to
draw UP articles or agreellc' =. : IA -i1s
late Dave Kendall's billiard room for a
match Of three games between Frawley
and Foley. The first was played il