St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-12
LITTLE Ives LEADS OFF.
WINS THE F7RSF KFeHTS CAME, Sc0R-
INC 500. SL6sS0E 595.
slosson Was Noficsa5ly Nervous
and Ives at Perfect Ease =
MANY Cheers Greet the Napo-
Icons Fine Playiag-MarVei-
Ons Exhibition OF Open Table
Nursing.

NEW YORK. Dec. 1.-The big three
corHered billiard tournament between
jacob SchRefer, Ge0rge Si8sson and
Frank Ives for stake of 81. 000 and a
one-TwO-thres division of the gate re-
ceipts, was aUspleioasiy begun IN the
concert bali Of Madison Square garden
tonight. The hR4l was crowded with an
enthusiastic audlrnce- Promptly at
O'clock Sloss0a and Ives appeared
Maurice Daily announced that -BudaS
Seh0deld had been chosen marker ana
William Sexton referee. Slossoa won
The hank and selected the white bail
lie WAS neticeably nervous at The Out
set, and there was an apparent
lack of confidence IN the open table
play, which he launched out Oh
He failed on an easy cross-fable
shot after scoring len Ives was con-
sideTably more al ease than Is ms won't
when he took I'D ms che. and began
open play with great rapidifY. He Eot
The balls IN The corner OF tbs table on
the third shot, and In very little more
than minute had rolled on tEenfy-four
by careful nursing Then 1he balls be
came scattered and he ran twenty more
on open table play, failing on IN easy
cRrr0m-
The balls were left very comfortably
Tor Slosson and he proceeded 10 pile
them up. his sixteenth shot was
difficult nasse which caused consider
able applause and his twenty-Ssventn
was long draw. He nursed the balls
along the lower END Of the ran and kept
chem together with
GREAT DAINTTNEss.
There was applause when ne passed
the 30 mark. Slossan, who had entirely
controlled his nervousness by this
time, continued ont ana in-playiRg, and
ran his string up to Is. The nth was
an open play. He fell down On an easy
carrOm on the S5th shot
/ Ives IN his third shot got the ivories
I under perfect control IN the upper left
! hand corner he carried them along
4 the rails for fourteen mere and held
! them on The lower rail. going from right
t 10 left and from left 10 right until
4 he had rolled I'D sixty-two- His sixty
| third shot WIS long carrOn. and his
4 slXty-IouTth an enormously olT1eult
| maSSe. In the sfxty-SlKIh he punched
The balls together in fhs lower right
! hand corner within the line. ana added
/ fourteen more 70 ms string without per-
cep1ioly moving the balls The Napoleon
was playing beautiful billiards. and
/ taeI5 was z Spontaneous cheer from ms
s-roOrerS'' when ne passed the 100 mark.
1 He tailed at q comparatively simple
/ draw al H.
From this time I'D TO the tenth round
I no remarkable runs we re made. The
score standing Ives 3yl, Sl0sSOn 1885,
! SlosS0n opened the eleventh inning
WITH beautifully executed blank. and
there was q look Of positive tranquility
/ On Ives c8untenanee as lie made three
open table shots ana captured
THE ANCHOR NURSE
On the upper righf-hand rail and reeled
OF tabs by The score He WAS warming
! mp for remarkable WORK. and he seemed
10 voluntarily abandon ms good position
/ for the PURPOSE Of showing what line
work ne could do around Tire table and
al open nursing. he seemed able ID
/ get the balls al any rail he chose at Will.
He missed at the 141st shot. when the
score Was Ives 532. Slosson 555.
/ SlOsSOn was IN his usual inpertuTable
condition of mind when he started the
thirteenth inning. and there was q
great deal Of applause over MS sin
gHlarly skIlIful rail playing. In faEt.
there Was more snthusias over this
inning than over any Of the others
SlOsson Gid everything that he
possibly could on billiard table,
and seemed 10 De playing IA exhibition
game. But he rolled ND la. in which
there were many beautiful shots. bul
failed 10 CeI beyond The bBlk Oh thE
164th- Ives was looking very fdge ~
while Siosson was getting II ms 1Rf
work. He got I'D with q soIng-bo-
run-oufnOw expression, which ths
PLAYS he Immediately began u
execute did not belle. He fairly sur
passed himself, and his admirers grew
wildly hilarious whiie IL wRs all Ike
~ that ne woHid run ont. The young
man gave a marvellous exhibition q
oDsn-1able nursing, ana seemed 10 bE
perfectly Indifferent whether ne gained
the raj or not He made sixty n
and finished his string The score b.
innings:
Ives-44- III, 0. 81, !. Sc, 0. O, o. IS, ~
$500. Highest runs, al. liz aver
aye. 80.
Siosson-la. s. q. o, g. E, III. 50. 0, !
@, 1880. highest TINS, 164. IL; aver
are. A76.
Tomorrow night Sloss0n VIII NEE
Schaefer.