The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-25

Square Garden, New York,
A "A Dec. 2, are about completed.
The contest will decide the
worlds championship, and practically
ali the best players now in active serv-
ice have entered the lists.
The billiard championship has been
a much discussed subject ever since the
death of Frank C. Ives a couple of
years ago. Ives was alone in his class.
Jacob Schaefer and George Slosson
have met upward of fifty times to test
their skill on the green cloth, and the
result is an even division of victories.
The long suffering public called halt
long ago, and the two Teutons have
since been but little in the glare OF the
limelights Every American devotee of
the cue knows full well that Slosson
is better than Schaefer at cushion car
oms and that the latter is superior at
balk line play. The question of vic
tory therefore usually depends upon
the style of game chosen.
Many of the large cities will contrib
ute competitors TO the tourney. New
York, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago
and St. Louis are to be represented.
Among the stars who will cross cues
are Schaefer Slosson, Ora Morningstar,
the brilliant young New York player;
Edward Mclaughlin. also from Goth
am; Leonard Howison, Tom Gallagher,
Sutton of Chicago, Barutel, the Pari-
sian. and Ortiz, the Spaniard.
Little Willie Hoppe, the wonderful
boy expert. has at last decided to
compete. This phenomenal lad has
done more in the last year or two to
keep alive the popularity of billiards
than has any one of the grown men
Identified with it. Hoppe is so small
that he has to kneel on the table to
execute most shots. but nevertheless he
recently defeated both Mclaughlin and
Morningstar. The youth asks for a wa
ger of $500 a corner and stipulates a
weeks play of 1900 points up. He
would accept a reasonable concession
in the matter of odds, possibly playing
$50 to his opponents 800. Hopes chal-
lenge attracts wide interest, and the
games in which he participates are GER
tain to be witnessed by record breaking
crowds Howison defeated Morningstar
in their last match. and their perform
ances will also be followed with inter-
est.
According to arrangements, the COM
ing ivory pushing carnival is to bring
Slosson and Schaefer together at balk
line play. Schaefer consequently has
the advantage. He is uneXcelled in his
speciality and should rule a ten to seven
favorite in the betting. 1t was his
magnificent balk line work which won
for Schaefer the title of "the wizard"
While abroad last season the Chicagoan
vanquished the foreign pros" pluck
ing most of their spare cash in the
bargain. Barutel was one of the best
players Schaefer met in Paris, and he
brought him TO America to pit him
against our experts. Baruters playing
thus far has been confined principally
to Chicago academies.
Schaefer would have remained in Eu-
rope another season had not betting
been stopped by the Partisan authori-
ties. This unfortunately interrupted
BILE series of contests.
Football fatalities have not been nu-
merous this year. although the recent
death of John Segrist of the Ohio State
team aroused considerable comment in
the middle states. Most of the bad ac-
cidents have occurred in the west 1t is
within bounds to state that very few
football mishaps are unavoidable. If
the men are properly trained, have
serviceable, thickly padded uniforms
and know the principles of the great
game, they will rarely be put out of
playing condition for more than a few
minutes at a time. The chief danger
in football results from the using of
men unseasoned, untried and unadapt-
ed to the severe trial a fast game ne
cessitates. In a case of this nature
none but coaches and captain should be
held responsible.
The hardihood of veteran pigskin chas-
ers is marvellous when one considers
the physical pressure they are COM
PEELED to undergo. Men like Hinkey
McCung, De Saulles, Thorne and Hale
of Yale, Barnard, Kelley, Wheeler,
King and Lea of Princeton, Reid and
Sawin of Harvard and Hare, Brooke
and Folwell of Pennsylvania could
push and plunge, tackle and block, like
human demons, never knowing what it
was to receive lasting injury. Training
and equipment are two protectors that
will carry man safely through the