St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-17
Play in the Billiard H andi-
cap Begins Tomorrow
Evening.
Fife EN- Contestants for the
Royal Tankard in
Line.
Rules Governing What Will
Be the Best Match
- Yet Played.
Preliminaries All Ready, and
May the Best Man
Win.

w Ill.
Tomorrow evening the GLOBE bill
lard tournament will be inaugurated.
There are fifteen candidates for the
elegant gold and silver tankard offered
by this paper. While it is Twin City
affair, only one Minneapolis mau has
entered. The tourney Will consist of
los games, and. will, of course. consume
several weeks.
The GLOBES trophy is challenge
cup, and the winner must first capture
three challenge games. The handicap
ping committee Iabored all yesterday
afternoon in giving the allowances that
will be granted, and the concensus
of opinion is that the allowances
have been SO equitably fixed
that any one of the fifteen contestants
has show of winning. thad occurred
that it would be an injustice to the
players who go in the tournament and
play fourteen games to allow an out
slider to come in and'challeage the Win
ner, and for tliis reason it is decided to
give the challenge preferences to the
participants themselves. The man who
WINS second place will have the first
chance and the third shall have the sec
ond right, and SO OIL down until the list
is exhausted. Ten days will be given a
challenger after having played one chal-
lenge game before challenging again.
This rule is established with view to
giving every participant an oppOrtun-
lty. Should it become apparent that
any participant in the series has
Thrown game to another player,
such contestant will be barred out of the
series. and all the games he has PLAYED
up to the time of his removal will be
erased from the schedule of games
played, and should any contestant for
felt or fail to complete the series, all
the games that he has played when re-
firing will also be taken off the schedule.
Should the challenge series extend to
player outside the participants in the
tourney, such challenger must play at
scratch, ana all challenge games shall
be for $50 points. The games in the
tourney, however. will be for 100 points.
fender company will govern tine play.
with the exception Of when he-bails
are frozen" the player, as in playing
cushion carroms or balk line, may bank
OF spot the balls at his own option. The
rules read:
Governing Rules.
I. The game is begun by stringing for the
lead; the player who brings his ball nearest
to the cushion at tine head of the table win
ming the choice of balls and the right to play
first or compel his opponent TO play, as i'll the
American game. Should the striker fall to
count. his opponent then makes the next
play. aiming at Will at either ball on the
table,
2. A carrom consists in hitting both object
balls with the cue ball in q fair and unob
1ectionable way; each carrom Will count one
for the player A penalty of one shall also
be counted against the player for every miss
occurring during the game.
3. A ball forced Off the table is put back
on its proper spot. Should the players ball
jump off the table after counting, the count
is good. the ball is spotted and the player
plays from the spot. if.7- -
a. If in playing shot the cue is not with
drawn from the cue-ball before the cue-ball
comes i'll contract with the object-ball, the
shot is foul, the player loses his count and
his hand is out.
s. If the balls are disturbed accidentally
through the medium of any agency other
than the player himself. they must be re-
placed and the player allowed to proceed.
g. If in the act of playing the player dis
turbs any ball other than his own, he cannot
make counting stroke, but he may play for
safety Should he disturb a ball after hav-
ing played successfully, he loses his count On
that shot; his hand is out, and the ball SO DIS
turbed is placed back as near as possible III
the position which it formerly occupied on
the table, the other balls remaining where
they stop.
z. Should player touch his own ball with
the cue or otherwise previous 10 playing ii is
foul, the player loses one, and cannot play
for safety. II sometimes happens that the
player after having touched his ball gives
second stroke. then the balls remain where
they stop, or are replaced near as possible
in their former position at the option of his
opponent.
s. When the cue-ball is very near another.
the player shall not play without warning
his adversary that they do not touch, and
giving him sufficient time to satisfy himself
on that point.
O. When the cue-ball is in contact with an
other, the balls are spotted and the player
plays with his ball in hand.
10. Playing with the wrong ball is foul.
However, should the player using the wrong
ball play more than one shot with it he shall
be entitled to his score just the same as if he
had PLAYED with his own: as soon as his hand
is out. the white balls must change places,
and the game proceed as usual.
IL. In ali the games for the challenge cup
the crotch is debarred. The object balls
shall be considered crOtched whenever the
centers of both lie within four-and-one-
half inch square at either corner of the table.
When the object balls are so within said
square three counts only will be allowed.
except one of the object balls or both be
forced out Oft. In case of failure by the
player MS mana Is OUT ana Lne next player
goes on to play with the balls in position as
left by last player.
II. IA this game no player is allowed to
withdraw before the game Is out: by SO do
ing he forfeits the game The decision of the
referee is final, but it might happen, under
extraordinary circumstances, that one of the
players should believe his rights to have
been violated by the referee. In such case
he must declare the subject OF his grievance
and announce that he is playing the game
ont under protest Then, should he lose the
game the subject of the grievance is left to
the decision of experts mutually agreed
upon.
The officers.
DR.. Laughton has been chosen official
referee, and will be in attendance each
evening. But it has been arranged so
that he may choose an assistant who
will relieve him when the official ref
cree chooses.
Play will begin tomorrow evening
promptly at O'Clock at Foley's Billiard
hall, and the tourney will then be con-
tinued from day to day until every con-
testant has met every other contestant.
The entries closed last evening and are:
Doherty, of Minneapolis; Glow, Gaines,
Bingham, Thayer. Estes, Foley, Copen,
Somers, Snyder, Dickinson, Clark,
Hatch, Wilder, Ronald, of st. Paul.
The second and third prizes are not
open to challenge. They are offered by
Mr.. Foley, and are an elegant set Of
sleeve buttons and jointed cue re-
spectively.