Morning journal and courier., 1893-12-12
EXPERT BILLIARD PLAYING.

 Ives and SIosson open the Battle of the Giants and Both Men do won- derfuI Work With the Cue.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-The battle of the giants of the cue began tonight in Madi- son Square garden concert hall with the | first game in the "big three tournament" For six nights Frank O. Ives, George F. Slosson and Jacob Schseffer will cross cues for supremacy and a sweepstakes of $1 800. Each contributed $500. In addition the winner will carry of 50 per cent. of the gate receipts. The second man will have l 30 per cent, while the third will have the remaining 20. Ives and Slosson played the opening game tonight. The house was | filled with spectators. The referee was William Sexton.
 Slosson won the bank and began with | open play. He seemed slightly nervous and the balls would not roll to suit him. | After scoring 10 points he fell. Then the | young Napoleon stepped to the table. He looked confident. The balls were well scattered but at the tenth shot Ives had them under control at the lower part of the table. Then began series of strokes in and out the bslk line that rolled the points up rapidly and made Slosson more ! scoring A. Slosson then played cautious | ly a clear-cut, even game, increasing his string by hard earned open work play. He scored S5. Ives then started in with his second inning. The third shot got the
 balls around the table to his favorite posi-
 tion at the head of the table. When he had
 passed the fifty mark the worries got scat-
 tered. It took 10 shots to bring them togsth-
 CT. Then there were 10 carooms the narrow
 length of the table. He played rapidly. | His delicacy of touch was exquisite and his
 command of the balls mssterly. He passed
 the hundred mark with a brilliant double
 carrom snd ran 17 more before he tripped.
 Slosson approached the table amid silence. | He failed to score. Ives followed with 6
 goose-egg. Slosson looked more confident
 now, but failed to score. Ives pushed 67
 buttons to his credit, ending the fourth
 inning and leaving the score: Ives BPS
 Slosson 95.
 In the next inning Slosson got the balli } outside the short balk-line at the head oi
 the table at the thirty-four point. He held } them there until the fifty sixth shot, wher 7 the anchor broke and he began open work , At the seventy-seventh shot Slosson mad,
 carrom around the table and the spplaus,
 was deafening. At the eighty second sho
 he fell. Ives scored but 1. End of tn, fifth inning, score: Ives 229, Slosson 177 Slossop started of we'll in the sixth In ming, but failed on a three cushion caron balls to suit him. He nursed them fo B 66 points. An easy shot, carelesel. ) placed, gave the student his last chance Slosson, by a series of brilliant plays, tool
 the lead In the next inning. Twice he go
 the balls outside the short balk-line ant rolled the points up rapidly. There wa {. great applause when, at the 1l2th shot, b
 came up to his opponents score. He mad s five more, giving him 300 before dra,
 over to balk lines closed his inning.
 Ives was little excited and as he dre' a his cue Slosson called foul. Ives hs l. touched ball, he said, but the foul wa !. not allowed. However, Ives failed t Lr score. Slosson ran 35 and left one of th . | balls frozen on the lower cushion, the othe 2 | In the same position on the upper. I've f nissed the shot by two feet and Slosso l. also madea bad huff. Ives tried again an
 got a geese egg but left the balls in sligh
 ly better position SO that Slosson scored
 Ives got the ivories together and along tt
 lower lines the balls straddled the bal
 lines. After making 96 points Ives fe O down. Slossaa missed and Ives in the ne, 'f inning worked continually for the low,
 line, playing with delicate tsuch. He rolle # up the highest score of the night-1- }. points. . slosson then began his open game. Al g around timetable shots followed In rap l. succession. He played great billiards. n draw half the length of the table receive .. great applause. After 6 run of 164 poin
 Slosson failed to get the the ball inside u r. bslk-line -on 6 delicate shot. Ives the D. mainly by nursing the balls In the upp at squares, ran out his 69 points easily.