The San Francisco call., 1896-11-04
V.GNAUX COMING
WITH HIS CUE.
The World Famous Bill
liardist Coming to the
United States.
He Is to Meet Napoleon Ives
and Schaeffsr in a
Tournament
BIG BOOM IN BILLIARDS.
The olympic Cub Pool Tournament
Is the Entering Wedge in
the Snort.
BIG BOOM IN BILLIARDS.

Vignaux, the greatest living French
billiardist, has consented 10 leave his dear
Paris for another tour of the United
States 1t is no small matter to get gen.
tleman of Mr.. Vignaux's proportions,
both physically and in reputation, to
move away from the comforts of home,
and it has cost exactly $4,000 to do so.
Besides this snug sum. Vignaux has
eyery assurance that his voice in the ar
ranging of games Will have more weight
than it had during his first visit some
years ago.
Nowhere is the news of Vignaux's ac-
ceptance received with more pleasure than
it is among the players of the Olym pic
Club. Their present pool tournament has
worked up d billiardistic craze, and the
prospect of seeing the greatest living
knights of the cue punch the ivories is a
treat out of the ordinary.
Charles Miller OF Chicago, the repre-
sentative of the Brunswick, Bake. Collen-
der Company, went over TO France some
months ago after Vi"naux, for the reason
that without the great French player no
tournament could be complete. GARNER,
the other well-known French player, has
been here ever since the last '.one-s shot-in''
tournament i'll June, when he took second
place. Napoleon Ives and Jake Schaeffer
took first an third places, respectively,
in that tournament
The players from this side of the ocean
who will enter he tournament are: DAILY,
Sosson Scha fer, GARNER, Ives, Gene
Carter, Tom Gallagher, Mazzoli, Cation
and Mclaughlin.
Captain Williams the representative of
the Brunswick. Bake, Collender Com
pany, who is in this City, had considerable
to say regarding the proposed tournament.
I'VE hope to bring off in this country the
kho tl, "A
witnessed, ''he said. sit is a harl thing to
bring men like Vignaux, Schaeffer. Ives
and GARNER together from their far-away
homes. These men earn thousands of
dollars every year and neither is inclined
to give up his business to take chance.
We have finally got them and the thing is
to make them come as far as San Fran
cisco to give one or more of their games
in the series.
Il know that Daily and GARNER will come
here, and Spink, who by the way is right
at The head OF the second-raters is only
to anxious too see California again. Ives
and Schaeffer like this State and so does
Slosson tor the matter of that. The main
thing Is TO get Vignaux to mo e this way
a couple of days from Chicago, and we
will gather on this coast the very best biz
lizard players in the world.
Should they come here as l confidently
expect they will, not one but a number of
tournaments will be entered into. The
first raters such as Ives, Vignaux, Schaef-
Ter and Slosson can mix up. Spinh, who
is so we'll known here, and who has
crAwled up from beating j. F. B. Nc
Cleery and Ben TAYLOR, to walloplng
Gene Carter so badly last spring, is Justly
entitled to entering against the big man.
"MazZoii," the champion of the Sout b,
Tom Gallagher, Cation and Mclaughlin,
would make a magnificent tourney, as the
best among the third and second raters.
81 have no idea what particular style OF
game would be played. When the tourn-
ament was held last June, the 1S-inch
balkline was played on the one-snot-in
plan. This was a great disadvantage
to Schaeffer. Ives took first place and
GARNER second 1t is proba BILE that this
will be dropped here and the regular
18-inch balkline played, or else the cham
pion" game. The champion game is an
old-time one, in which the table-bed is cut
up in the shape of a diamond, the lines
running from a point IS inches on the
long rails to another II inches on the
short rails. Within these angles but one
carom can be made.
Il am SO satisfied that the best players
in the world will be with us soon that ]
have sent on East for standard size table
5x10 feet, on which they will play.
''Sirange. isn't it? There is not a
standard able of modern make on this
coast. excepting the lone one which goe,
tomorrow aboard the steamship Colon
for Acapulco"
The olympic Club oall-pool tournament
as played up to last night shows the fol-
lowing results: