The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-14

4re hsnl.c4p billiard tournament at
a. gratt.e Athletic Cab c1nae 10 "a close
49, Frtdav night r T.. Allan Winning
- gsgd nsa4i Throughout the fourna-
s.exf 10 played . Fssadg. ssroag game
frsn TIE eighty mark, defeating good
raysrs hy fairy VIDE margins The vie
sor~ ss Attain was n popular ore. as he
fa< essesesl ali tournaments for the past
sx1 or shree years and gradually worked
Is way ZIP TO ne fEoat.
n bess piss ng Wa Go-e by f.. 2
roe@ ass &c wss compelled 10 give sueG
: fsr.se ssa5iaap 70 tie other players that
<. ansily los 10 Brown Ia the sensi-finais
- = ssese 81 - 10 IL. Tire. more points
.adsfsops ws8.d have made his 10. Psr,s' )
n.dws exei.Ing game was with Weldon,
rsp isss wbeu a. needed only one point
tssxo osi.- TIE shot offered WelDon was
) Comparatively easy one, bat ne lest als
rsfxe and played Il the wrong way. THIS
rye Pope AT opcalaE and he ran l. points
sna won the game
n. rafing 81 fhe players proved salts
fzcsary N ~. respects, ana IL wax only
vfere TIE n1syer feli below his average
sx6re that the games were not evenly con-
te6fsd There II no other game that
kuew OF where nerve cuts a greater figure
snAn II billiards refer especially TO
ex1r~s ~ whsch there is something al
= 70, 70 great as "a contests where money
IL been bet bat yet II Is much more
Irtensc than where two men are playing
10 pass The time away. yet take an inter-
ct N tlse outcome.
The Seattle Athletic Club is not at the
tan notch IN billiards. bat OF late there
hrs been more work done than ever be-
foss In the line of acquiring the fine points
The beat way for a poor player TO i'm
prpTe II 10 watch good players and also
bay against them. Players who are con-
fsnt to jog along with those in thei- class
sefll not advance much unless they happen
% be unusually adept.
Following is the schedule OF hsnd,caps
Under which the s. A. G. tournament was
eunagcfed:
Gos,stein. 20; Baldwin. 20: Lyle. 50: wei
boz ~: Brown. So: Jones, 100: Wother-
eooen. co. Murray. 60. Boyd. 80: Allan. "a:
Jackson 60 Robeson. 10. Inyerarity. 20,
Beekingh&m. 81: Dean. loo, Meyer. 81.
rope. 10; iiibbard. 80.
The scores,
Baldwin beat Gottstein. 10-4s.
/ wetherspoon beat Murray. ,D-45
WELDON beat LIS tie. 1910.
Allan beat Boyd. s5-4s.
Pope beat Hubbard. lso-si.
Dean beat Mayer. l0l-54.
j, Brown beat Jones. 1913.
4 Allan beat Roheson. sJ-6o.
1 Brown 1ea, Wotherspoof. 500
! Weldon beat BALDWIN .0-is
: Pope beat Weldon. i5a-e9
Dean beat Inverarify. io1-s9
Brown beat Pope. SD-l41.
Aiiain beat Dean. sJ-fs
A.ian beat Brown. Sos
James J. coTbett lhe eleveresr pos~f
that ever stepped is,o a ring, Is 10 visit
Seattle once mofe tie has been here
twice before. and ca each occasion has
; been web received. & viii be interesting
20 note how the fe}lc public looks upon
him since he .oai the championship of
Ire world 10 Bob FilzsimmoHs IL is Cor
belts ambition IN be an actor and attract
people 10 Sc A.m IN that role, instead OF
s On exponent in high art IN pugiiism II
IS a iasdah.e object on Corbett's part,
sud the public IN general wishes him sue
cs&. II Il tired. however. of seeing pu-
gtis,s pose actors. Legitimate actors
dislike TO see the profession invaded by