The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-29

through, for it certainly seems that the
field is ripe for such a newspaper.
EXCITING BILLIARD TOURNAMENT
In billiard circles Chicago is reveling in
the throeS of a three-cuShion carom 7 yur-
nament between the experts at Green's
academy. The tournament has been in
progress one week, with the following
contestants: Cation, Carter, Sutton, Ca
prom and Jevne.
Every game has been bitterly contest
ed, and both Sutton and Carter have made
the remarkable average of one in thirty
points. The tournament will close the
current week.
Clarence Green opened his new bflli rd
room and bowling alleys on Saturday,
April q, at No. SIS and SIT North Clark
street, and the experts employed in his
academy appeared in short exhibition
games The most remarkable exhibition
of the evening was a 200-point straight
rail game between Willie Hoppe, the
champion boy billiardist of the world
who is only eleven years of age, and Ja-
cob Schaefer
Willie got the balls ION the rail- in the
second inning and ran 1S9 and game, leaV-
ing the Wizard at II. Considering the
youngsters performance, Green closed ne
gotiations yesterday with the boys man
ager for a weeks engagement, to begin,
After this engagement he will appear for
one week in Green's academy on Dear
born street.
BASEBALL RESULTS PECULIAR.
We have been having baseball and base
ball since the National and American
league seasons opened. At least we got
baseball of a pretty fair quality in Chi
cago, where Comiskey'S team began the
schedule and the fans at Cincinnati and
ST. Louis where the real team opened,
got a dubious mixture of straight goods
and farce comedy. Comiskey said he
would put a team into Chicago that
would win and 1t looks as though the
National league article was to be over
shadowed by the new organization. In
this connection I asked the sporting edi-
tor of leading paper today If he would
send special reporter away with Com
iskey's team and he replied:
eff they continue to draw interest as
they have at the opening of the season,
yes. doubt very much, however, If we
send a man with the National league
team, certainly not if 1t plays no better
ball than at the opening"
Straws show which way the wind blows
and while believe there is far more III
the club of the major league than has
been shown in the early games, at the
same time the new broom always sweeps
clean ana the real rams VINO pay Tor
keeping team running have been so dis
satisfied with the amount of bunko that
has been given out of the old team in
years past that they have about given up
hopes Of q real championship organiza-
ton and have turned their patronage to
the new club.
There certainly has been a great
amount of hard luck mixed up in the
opening series of games for the National
league team. Otherwise it would be diff
| ficult to explain why club that looks
so well on paper is at the foot of the
per centage columns. The making of
Ryan captain was first advanced in a.
Chicago paper by me in the old Dispatch
two years ago, and it meets with the en-,
dorsement of the fans. He has been q
member of the Chicago team since late
in the season of 1884 This year Jimmy is
playing wonderful game, his batting
average so far being over 400