The morning times., 1896-03-23
.BILL|ARDISTS IRE HERE
Frank Ives and Albert GARNER
Reach New York From Europe.
EXPERTS OF TWO WORLDS
Jacob Schaefer, the Wizard, VIII En-
ter the Tournament az the Repre-
sentative of Chicago-Ives Won
Many Victories in Europe, Defeat
ing the Best Players.

Albert GARNER, the French billiard cx-
pert, and Frank Christian Ives, the Amcri-
can star OF first rank, arrived in America
Saturday from southampton on the steamer
New York. Their coming waseXpected, and
a throng OF old-time admirers OF billiards
We're at the pier to greet them. They had
dined on shipboard, and, therefore, drove
at once to Maurice Dalys billiard rooms.
The place was crowded with those who
remembered GARNER in the days when he
was Americas champion, and they gave TO
him the kindliest possible greeting. Both
experts come TO take part in the prize
Journeys projected by Maurice DAILY, and
which are patterned after the men ora BILE
Big Three Journeys of 1894, which
brought Ives, Schaefer, and SlOSson to-
gether in contests in New York, Chicago,
Cincinnati, and Boston.
IVES, SCHAEFER, AND GARNER.
The proposed Journeys will bring Ives
and GARNER together as competitors with
Jacob Schaefer for the 50 600 purse Offered
by Daily, and will serve TO afford billiard
lovers 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,
Schaefcr will be Chica go's star and Garnier
will De the international expert, representing
France.
GARNER has changed very little since he
left New York in S79. His face is brOnzed
more ana he is a little stOuteT, but other
wise he is the same cheerful ana mercurial
Frenchman as OF yore- He said that he was
deli GIFTED TO be once more in the Metropolis,
where he had laid the foundations or his
repute as a cue artist and or the fortune he
| now possesses.
Garuer has the unique distinction of hay
| ing been at one and the same time American
| champion at the old American fOur-balI
! game and the French three-ball game when
| it was first introduced here. This was in
! the 7O's. He defeated both Ubassy and
Maurice Vignaux TO gain this professional
| pre-eminence. He is now champion OF
| Brussels
! GARNIER'S SUCCESS ABRDAD
| After he left America he became pro-
! prietor OF five different billiard par!ors in
! different cities of Europe He is now q
| director OF The Paris HippOdrome and pro-
| prietor OF a Paris billiard academy. He
played in one academy at Madrid while Ives
| was playing It another Later he made Il
\ tour OF the principal cities of France and
I Holland with Ives
! Ives has been abroad Just four months.
! His srca test triumph was bis defeat OF
| widen, champion of Holland, whom he
pla yed at Amsterdam, giving to him odds
OF $50 III LOCO. Ives ged SO 2-3
/ for the two nights play, making l ,OOO
points TO the HCllanders I67. He aver
ged on the first night SO Ia, and 30
| on the second night.
The game was fourteen-inch balk line.
and was played on 4 1-2x9 table Al
Madrid Ivees played sixty-three days AT
the Fernandez Academy. He says ttat
the novelties at the academy were the
| three handed games at three Cashfon
carroms. and a new style OF the Frcnct
corner game, in which the red ban was
placed on the rail at the longest fourteen
inch balk line.
IVES HAS CHANGED HIS PLAY.
Talking to reporter for i local paper
| Ives said: Il have shifted my style Of
! play. | do not now play so risky chance
| shots for position. 1 play 10 count and
! play wider. This means a technical change
Of tactics that the public may be inter
estcd in studying
Ives brought home with him a new style
! OF cue Tip. II is of hammered leather .
! good deal thicker than the tips now inn
ported from abroad. Ives face is bronzed
! and his eye bright and clear, demonstrating
I that his travels abroad had benefited him
/ greatly. Ives says that the Holland ex
peTts excel at rail nursing, and rattle Oft
runs OF coo points and more with the
greatest ease. That style OF game, thou gh
is now out OF date in America with pro-
I feSSiOnalS.
The New York tournament has been fiXet
for the week OF March 81 TO April 4 in
elusive, at Madison Square Garden COncer
Han. The game, as before stated, Will b,
cighteen-inch halk line, Il IOvelty not We
witnessed by New York billiard lovers.
The ''dnchOT" shot is barred, and il il
proposed that the players lie allowed only
one shot instead of two us in the fourteen
inch balk-Iine game whenever the balls ar,
in balk. In other words, the player lCSe'
his hand if lie fails to drive at least on,
object ban out of balk on the seCc nd shot
Jacob SChIefcr, the third of tie big tri'
of competitors, viii 90 his pTaCtiCing a
Boston. Ives and Garnier Will practice a
Days Broadway Academy.