The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-22
BILLIARD STARS ARE HERE.
hLBERT GARNER OF PARIS AND
FRANK IVES ARRIVED YESTERDAY.

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They Are to Compete with Jacob Schnefer
Ia the IntrrnntIona Tourney Gnrnter
Glad to Hs in New York Opce More
ives HAS Chnngcd Ills System Of PlnJ.
Albert GARNER. the French billiard star, and
Frank Christian Ives, tho American star of first
rank, arrived yesterday from southampton on
the steamer New York. Their coming was ex-
pectcd, and n throng Of old-time admirers of
billiards were at the pier to greet them. They
had dined on shipboard, and, therefore, drove
at once to Maurice Days billiard rooms. The
plnre was crowded with those who remem bcred
GARNER in the days when lie was Americas
champion, md they gave to him the kindliest
possible greeting. Both experts, as already an
nounced in THE Sun. come to take part In the
prize Journeys projected by Maurice DAILY. and
which arc patterned after the memorable
big Three" Journeys OF 1894. which
brought Ives. Schnofer. md Slosson together in
contests in this city. Chicago, Cincinnati, and
Boston. The proposed Journeys will bring Ives
and GARNER together as competitors with Jacob
Schacfer for the $4,000 purse offered by
DAILY. and will serve to afford billiard lovers In
nll three cities an opportunity to witness the
latest things in cushion carroms and the novel
standard game OF eighteen-inch balk line. Ives
will be New York's representative. Schaefer will
be Chicago's star. and GARNER will be the inter-
national expert, representing rance
GARNER has changed very little since he left
New York in 1870. His face is bronzed more,
and he is a little %stouter. but otherwise he is the
same cheerful and mercurinl Frenchman as OF
yore. He said that he was delighted to DO once
more in the metropolis, where he had laid the
foundations of his repute AZ a enc artist and Of
the fortune he now Possesses. GARNER has the
unique distinction OF having been at one and
the same time American champion at the old
American four-hall game and the French three
This VIVA in tho SpNaDfips- HA defeated lnth
tbassy and Maurice NiRnaux to gain this
professional preeminence. He IL now champion
proprietor of i've different billiard parlors in
different cities Of Europe. He, is now a director
Paris billiard Academy, lie played, in one
academy at Mair,d While Ives was playing a,
Ives has been abroad Just four months. His
greatest triumph was his defeat of, Widen.
sterdam. giving TO him odds OF $50 in 1000.
Ives averaged SO ID for the two nights play.
making 1000 points to the lIollander's 1867. He
averaged on the first night 81 l-3, and 30 on the
second night. The game was fuurtecn-inch
balk line. and was played on n 41tx9 table. AT
Mairid Ives played siXty-three days at the Fer
nundez Academy. He says that the novelties at
the academy were the throe-handed games at
French corner game, in which the red ball was
placed on the rail Mt the longest tourteen-inch
Rodcrique. Cure. and Gay. the latter two being
French stars. Ives said to a Sun reporter yes
terday:
II have shifted my style of play. I do not
now play so risky chance shots for position. |
play TO count and play wider. This means a
technical change Of tactics that the public may
be interested in studying"
Ives brought home with him a new style of
cue tip. 1t is Of hammered leather II good
deal thicker than. the tips now imported
from abroad. lvcs'S face is brOnz-d and
his eye bright and clear. demonstrating that
his travels abroad had benefited him greatly.
Prof. Kaarlus was one of the stars who greeted
Ives and GARNER. He used to be n pupil of Gar
rier. lie can beat me now at my own game OF
fancy shots" exclaimed GARNER. playfully.
Ives says that the Holland experts excel at rail
nursing. and rattle off runs OF 900 points and
more with the greatest ease. That style of
though. l. now out OF date in America
with professionals.
The New York tournament has been fixed for
the week of March ~ to April ! inclusive at Mad
isOr square Garicn Concert Hall. The game as
before stated. will be eighteen-inch hRlk line.
n novelty not yet witnessed by New York bill
liaru lovers. The . anchor d" shot is barred. and
1t j. proposed that the players be allowed only
shot instead Of twn rs In the fOurteen-inch
balk-linc game whenever the balls are in balk.
In other words. the player loses HIS hand II he
fails TO drive at least one object ball out OF balk
On the second shot.
Jacob Schaefer, the third OF the big trio of
will do his practising nj Boston.
Ives and GARNER will practise ut Days Broad
way academy.