The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-03
IT'S ENGLISH, YOU KNOW.
billiards IN LONDON STYLE FOR
TIE FIRST TIME IN NEW FORK.

| Against the Nurse stroke-Easy 20 Learn
| Gotham billiard lovers had last night theil
| first opportunity yet afforded OF seeing Eng
llsh billiards played In the metropolis. Frank
| G. Ives. the young Napoleon OF the cue. who
vanquished both Jacob Schaefer and George
+. Slosson. tho foremost opponents OF the
French oarrom game. met John Roberts, Jr-
! tho champion OF the English game. In Leno1
Lyceum In o match on an English pocket
table. Ives had beaten Roberts both In London
and in Chicago at the English game. and II
was therefore the third meeting OF the two
stars. In London Ives had amazed the Eng
lish public by his exquisite skill at nursing
the balls when they were nearly "jawed" in q
corner pocket. He broke all records by pro-
longed run. He beat Roberts In Chicago when
the Jaw nurse" was barred by the drawing
OF q line across the pockets that cut of sort
Of triangular "balk" space. marking OF seven
inches Of the rail at the corners. But two
consecutive shots are allowed In these balk
spaces.
Tho present match is made because the
Englishman still believes he can defeat the
American. The game ia not quite English.
but q modified form OF the standard English
game. The spot and push shots are barred.
The balls are larger than the English standard
The pockets are 3H inches. the English
standard size. but the balls are IN inches In
diameter. The table is Of standard English
build. with the pockets enlarged. concession
made BY Ives after he defeated Roberts In
Chicago. This. 1t is thought By some. will give
Roberts q greater advantage than he has
hitherto enjoyed. The table reminded
old timers in the audience Of the old
fashioned cellar door" Of the famous
american four-bnll game OF war days, when
Dudley kavanagh was champion. T. was
had been cracked w6ile Il was in, storage. and
late IL startinS Ths ssssien
R se% Yo $3.50 % sna s ns sfSP sa aS
small compared with the crowd that q French
psyers kops I viii SoC@ Shea New Yorkers
solve the puzzle OF what Roberts Is driving at
'y IN 1vSif shiny and
black top coat and S smal walking , stick; He
sexton, the champion Of the, centennial year,
o into shf sa;
spirits He got his old,tL9e o, weISO@e q
cram Budd scofeld. whose t saIGi With
billiards dates back to the days whom
iii sas A%isas tsps rsf fFsE
count on the wire. Capt, Tom Reilly. the
s Sct pssp ss the Of s SS' .s q
ssa on the English ehsnPion's tactics with
went vent By doubles and sripies. < plain Sarron
send he t fs sfS
glide into pocket after striking Il scored 2.
which counted o point against the striker.
Roberts lugCed In q huge fat Iron. to the
ssssn Saas ~ :aH @oohed
that the game started Off It was then nearly
O'clock and the couple Of hundrsd odd SPEC;
ladies watched the play from the balcony boz.
ieited one to Roberta on the usual miss 10
6alkS Roberts failed to score and Ives made
pook citing that Pads i evident that il + Easy
to learn the English game; The English
champion captured bunch OF 30 buttons. and
4 was what the English. term a"break."
They, don't, call an inning q " run, at any time:
times. Tho marker was Kept busy spotting
ssu. ss n s9S 20 pots9 e: s.a
IN ordinary, pool. though. The misses that
the mon made in trying to do 1t showed that:
the difficulty j.. Just try TO make the cue ball
sSa RoS Eh na ss It T 6.s Ts
pocket This is hazard play. Ives's nurse
ilsh cham pion's skill at hazard. Roberts kept
slowly ssnsd
lead at It. too. He executed some exceedingly
dsw g table 5
that would have hailed them had they been
made at French Garroms. He started his thir::
play. counting two for each tap Of the cue. In
sSSGf e sds Mh
ing The rail- He lost his position. and TOOK to
the open fabl e.. He trippsd with ~ buttons
recalled Wizard" schaefer at bis best The
i soo to i Inning closed in R0O0rt''
Roberts pocketed his adversary's hall In the
fifteenth inning, and then ratified of string
hs s.mad 70 only vi ss
many OF the billiard lovers 1t was at this
sSat GSptd Reilly away the
tended that he, didn't understand Ro6ertss
play. He said that 1t recalled old days
himself As a matter Of fact the Captain can
play English billiards as well as any amateur
ut Roberts's hazards. Roberts stopped down
m te rn pSd The
ment They had never seen ANYTHING like |
long cue" and Us used with a bridge As the
table looks like ten-acre clover field. II |
som etimes. Roberts made break Of 19l, all |
told. In the twenty second inning. 1t sent HIS |
score ahead with leap. The game stood: |
,Is7: Ives, 20; Robsrts was now
player could admire during these breaks.
He, slowed" the cue ball. pretty stroke, |
were as neat no any ons would want TO see.
He also com bined hazards and carroms at the |
same stroke.
Something seemed to be the matter with
Ives He could gain the rail and he was weak |
at hazards. He had bad luck in his mass6s.
too. shots thCt he ia ordinarily strong at. He |
made some skilful masso hazards. However,
Roberts gained steadily; He was more than
double lves's score in the thirty seventh In
ling. when the buttons read: Roberts SS3,
Ives MA
Slosssn. who had been watching the game
rom ysr-off box slipped away after Witness
na half an hour oi ioterts's fne hazard play
Ives got in his first triple figure "break" lust
alter the O. SStgdepts" departure. 1t was a
-oms But some OF them were corKinR GOOD