The evening world., 1893-12-18
SPORTING NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Billiard Tournament Now Needed
to Decide the Championship,
A Pretty Fight Expected In the n.
Y. A. G. Annual Meeting.

No sporting event in years has stirred
up n greater amount OF proportionate
discussion than last weeks billiard tour
ney. an. Its echoes will be heard here
abouts for some time. Beginning lar
s. In Chicago, a nan under SINH
lar conditions will be played. so that
when billiard lovers are not talking of
the tournament just passed they Will be
figuring on the probable outcome OF the
one to come. Several interesting ques-
tons are now being agitated. as a re-
suit of last weeks play. one is, When
will there be a tournament to decide
the championship. there being no cham
pion at present.
Speaking of this matter, President
Bensinger, of the b. Il. &. Co, says:
"A championship tournament Is bound
to come. A new emblem would have to
DO put up and the French experts invited
to play" George Slosson says: Count
me in II there is a for the
championship" Schaefer would doubt
less be willing. but Ives is IA thorn in
the sides Of the makers. He says: II
won't consent to play for a cham
pionship unless some reputable news
paper or sporting man offers a trophy
Nobody shall dictate to me the kind OF
u table l must. play. II ,
Frank Ives is doing a good deal of
talking Just now about playing Schaefer
for $4,000 a side, balk line, with the
anchor barred.
Jake. why wouldn't you play hin with
the anchor in?" he was asked.
IF l did that | would have to keer
s sims 20 zee T sSas II ws the t taSehed an wh ,en
we weren't playing" was his answer.
Things ave come to a pretty, pass when
a billiard expert ~insinuates that u table
BY and by we may have defeated play
ers charging that there. was poison In
their food or soap on their cue tips. But
. 1t really ooks as II the anchor must go
1t requires consummate skill and exquis-
| lite touch to play 1t as Schaefer did, also
keen eyesight and great physical control;
but the public thinks 1t monotonous, and
the public wish Is the foremost consid-
Grafton.
The many friends of Mr.. Walter g
Schuyler in the New York thletic club,
P Pre- MSrhin u t hssq Mercury .S %aSf Foot %% o% rss
ton, and in case he Is not named for
the Presidency by the Nominating Com;
mittee. the indications are that there WI
next month. There is no little opposition
to Olive Belmont, the present incumbent
Mr.. Belmont, It Is said, admits that ne
the past year that he might have, and
it is also said that he fayors the nomina'
ton now of Vice-President Barlow s
the MS Nomination himself in another year,
The communication sent out by Mr.
Schuyler's friends asks members ITO con
slider the a~dvisability Of submitting TN
tried member for the office of President
The Seventh Regiment element in thu
Club will doubtless make a strong fight
ing along SO placidly In the New Yorl
A. c.. h some sort Of excitement was
needed for the Clubs good.
A Chicago despatch says:
on ma yery v hbealt ny kieh w,h G msEe itse .
the League of American Wheelmel
meets in Feb. and acts on the decision o
the Racing Board to not accept any rec
ords that were made with the assistance
of a horse as pace-maker. 1T is ridicu
lous. this barring out horse:paced rec
ords.' said Capt; Root. of the Chicag'
lust o fast a bicycle can be ridden
There Is nc reason why the horse-pacet
records should not be accepted. that is
as ascd long as tn the Board naa recognizes pacet
Col. John Hopkins despairs of I'VE
getting Bob Fltzsimmons TO face his man
Dan Creedon, He has hopes now of get.
ting Ted Pritchard to this country tc
| DOx u1e AuStTdllan. lie expects 10 nave
a purse offered either by the Duval Ath'
lethic Club, of Jacksonville, or the Olymp-
ic, of New Orleans. II will accept a Sc, 0N
purse for the match" said he, land bel
50, 500 to 5000 with Pritchard. I will also
allow Pritchard $500 for expenses in case
the club doesn't do So"
ohn s. johnson has given up his pro.
posed trip to Sweden. He says he will
skate in the National Championship, but
will not skate at Manhattan Field.
Jake Gaudaur has challenged any oars
man in America for a single-scull race
for 1900 to $500 a side.
The Athletic Council of Cornell has
unanimously elected w. f. Atkinson, '95
of Brooklyn. manager of the Cornell
football team for the season of 1894.