The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-14
BILLIlRDs.
The stars rracticinE the New Gamo fur the
Coming Tourney.

The stnrs rracticinE the New Gamo fur the
Coming Tourney.
Everybody who frequeuts the Gotham billiard
parlors Is studying with tho liveliest attention
tho practice work Of the stars who are to COM
pete for the new championship Gun il this city
during the week beginning Nov. 20. New York
ers have never received n chance to 500 In their
own town tho now balk.linc gnmo which tho eN-
ports Will play. and for that reason 1t Is worth
recording that, so far as can DO Judged now. tho
tournament is liable to live an opportunity to
billiard lovers to enjoy more Of the beauties OF
open table play than they have heretofore wit.
messed in championship ~contests. Record.break
ing runs Of the old 'ort are apparently made i'm
possible by the limitations on nurse" play.
Tho new rule allowing ne shot in the balk
spaces and one shot at anchor has deprived con-
testnnts of the advantages for position play that
the old rule OF two shots in balk permitted.
With a secont shot ahead, they could formerly
position for nursery work ii they played oc-
c%nretely. No, however. all this delicate
SS'Ts + b is nq y ~ a !; 9r; in nuf t"f 7 bs IIol im,,nd sSF thS
after they enter t 9 interdictcl sp ces.
Ivess practice necessarily gives a cue to what
i open " table sR work tsr His lis hl R!Ss ia" run nshhs as b Se H iess
500, 600, and even more With case in a single;
inning. In explaining this ives said yesterday:
1.-The new game practically Kills nursing. Iho
driving of the balls is necessary, and the physi-
cal e~xertion Is four times as great az in the old
fourtecn-inch balk.line game. where two shots
were allowed in balk. Those who like brilliant
open play, as against technical nursing. will
be sure OF q treat"
Ives was the star player of the tourney last
| year in Chicago, at which this ncw-fanRled
game was first tried. He made n grand average
OF nearly II. He has been playing In town this
week with Edward Mclaughlin and has beaten
that average. Wednesday afternoon he madea
run of 100. nearly all opcn.table work. and since
thOn he has averaged % In 500: He, like his
competitors; is striving to solve the problem Of
changed conditions. and does IL by avoiding the
Maurice DAILY has put to his credit an average
Of 70 in a 4o9po'nt e. Fame .n and rolled up up runH Of
him somewhat. and he has had to, change
his cue through his favoritc stick being rem
dered unavailable by the loss Of its tin. He has
been experimenting with II heavy cue on tho
e~xertion in draws and drives. DAILY played n
practice game Thursday afternoon with j. Bryan
Stark, the Knickerbocker Club amateur crack,
and in a game of 400 conceded odds of $50 to
age of 10. q most creditable showing for an anna
tour.
George Slosson is reported by his friends as
having developed both yieor and vim in his
play in n 40o-point game by averaging over 10.
He has made runs of 103, 100, and no.. Jacob
Schacfcr and George Sutton, tho Canadian ex-
pert, have been practicing at the new game at
times beaten the Little Wizard" and his
friends think he is a formidable candidate for
NOBODY said Champion Ives yesterday,
ney: That's one thing that the changed rules
make certain"