The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-28

strengthens my belief that he is the com
ing billiard player His first opponent
of the week was Ben Saylor, that ever
aggressive, steady and heady PLAYER.
whose friends and supporters are legion
on the Pacific coast Saylor seemed in
particularly wretched luck as regards
leaves and breaks, however. and the
boy defeated him easily by a score Of
$50 to AZ, and averaged 10, at fourteen
inch balk line. This was his first pama
and he displayed no nervousness what
ever.
His next opponent was Joseph Capron.
champion Of Canada. and although the
youth displayed great skill, vet Capron
went out with a rum Of SIS, leaving the
ooy at LIZ. 1t was as well Capron per-
formed as he did, for Hoppe was coming
fast in the stretch, and UP to the time
of Capron'S high.run led the Canadian
all the way. EJ
COMPARTMENT OF SPAIN.
Wednesday night Luis vasquez. whose
name in Spain IS at the head of the list
Of players, was the boys opponent and
the way he bombarded the pride of Spain
was similar to Dewey's bombardment of
Manila When the smoke of battle
cleared, the boy grasped the hand of
the genteel and popular Spaniard and
said. 81 couldn't help it. [ had to do it.
NdSQueZ SInlieQ anu tnen looked 1OrlOfnly
at his string, which had 60 buttons coun-
ted.
Thursday night Willie went against the
hardest game in America and though
defeated, was not disgraced His op-
ponent was Billy Cation, the man who
has stopped more aspiring champions
than any man in professional billiards.
At the end of the game the score stood
Cation 49, Hoppe 1877 and Cation was
forced to an average of 10 to do the
trick If Hoppe can average against
Cation thus at this time, in two years
from now. improvement natural, he will
be the champion of all the shortstops
For next week Schaefer, Cation, Carter
and Sutton will engage in a three-cushion
carom tournament. the games being 80
points UP each, and it will be one of the
events of the season. At present Carter
is suffering from eTysipelas but it is
thought he will be able to participate
in this tournament. Should he not be
able to, Capron will take his place.
On Monday last Carter and Jeyne
signed articles to play for the champion
ship emblem and $3.50 a side, at three
cushion carom.. The game to be played
at Green's academy June and to be
100 points up. Both men are hard at
practice, and though Carriers sickness
has caused halt in his training, it is
expected he will be in shape for the
match.
GREAT YEAR IN CYCLING.
This promises to be one of the greatest
years ever known in cycling. Perhaps
not equal to that ef SO, and certainly not
in many respects to that of 81. when your
correspondent wascone of the favored few
who secured one of the C,OOG-mile souve-
Mrs given by Gormuliy 6, Jeffrey to riders
who covered that distance in the year on
a Rambler wheelo
There are, however, ,cyclers and riders
and when l speak Of the interest in
cycling this year it is to the former THAI
/ refer Possibly my own case well Illus
trates the point would make In 1886 ]
rode 5000 miles, in 81 my cyclometer
showed 6,125 miles covered from jan to
Dec. 81, the winter months being I'M
usually coed for riding. while in '9S nv
mileage fell off to, about Uses miles. Last
year it was about 1.Sq0 miles i'll tandem
and single wheels and this year it win
be about the same as last. This differ.
ence shows the practical use to which
the bicycle is being put
Men, and women too are using the
wheel nowadays as a means of convey
anCe to and and from business, and
find the streets filed with wheels frox
6 to a. m. and 5:3G to p. NJ, while the
boulevards of which Chicago has as many
miles and as good riding as any city in
America. The century riding fad is pass
ing away and where 400 to 600 used to
compete in the great annual century run
now there is hardly score and nearly
Ill of them are new and consequently
ambitious riders. Old wheelmen who
used to adorn themselves with century
bars have quit such riding. and have melt
ed their bars into coin, which is more
convenient for use.
Speaking of boulevard riding, we have
in Chicago all a wheelman could ask.
Two or three asphalt and macadam
streets and roads extend north, west and
south of the city to Naukegan and Mil
waul1ee. Aurora and Joliet, Pullman,
dan road north along the lake for fifty
miles is as fire wheeling as enc could
ask and the streets from the central part
OF the city are IN excellent condition. No
city in America offers greater attractions
to Wheelmen and the practical riders en-
joy the sport immensely.
THATCHER'S DEATH
The death of John A Thatcher, the
billiard player and sporting writer, has
caused general sorrow among those who
knew him in the billiard world and eX-
pressionS of regret are heard on all SIDES.
Thatcher was undoubtedly the greatest
billiard critic and writer in America and
by his death the profession loses a
stanch champion.
Clarence M. Ryder