The Minneapolis journal., 1902-06-10
SPORTS :
FOUR men ENTERED
Billiard Tournament Will Open in
st. Paul Monday.
CHARLES FERRIS IS FAvoR1rE
John Creahan, the Veteran Player,
Praises Work of the Young
Minneapolis Expert.

The four twin city billiard experts
who will meet in a balk-line tournament
at st. Paul have fixed Monday night for
the first game of the series. George
Spears and Charles Ferris of this city
and Joe Carney and Charles Glow of St.
Paul will be the contestants.
Six games will be played, each man to
meet each of the others in one game.
The conditions will be 14-inch balk line,
one shot In, S00-point games. A purse
OF $100 has been offered which will be
divided so. 80 and 20 per cent to the
hrsI three men. The contests will take
place at the Ryan Hotel on Monday,
wednesday and Friday nights of the next
two weeks. E
IN the recent triangular contest, is the
favorlte Tor first place, although the
other three men are all players of high
class. During the triangular tourna-.
ment at the West Hotel the playing was
remarkably good, considering the weather
conditions, ard was better than the show
ing made at the same time in the east
by Mo1n'nsstar and Mclaughlin, two of
the best shortstops in the country. John
Creahan. the veteran billiard player and
critic. IN the current number of Sport
las Life, has the following nice things
to say of Ferris work:
Amateur billiard players of the first order,
and in all parts of the country, will have to
LOOK to their laurels, there is "a young
LocnlnVar who came out of the west" who
promises to not only rank first among their
class, but may easily be their champion if the
reports which reach us are true, and we have
no reason to doubt their veracity The ex-
pert in question is Charles Ferris a pupil
OF George E. Spears. proprietor OF the billiard
room at the West Hotel, Minneapolis, where
Mr.. Ferris recently, in a fourteen-inch balk
line 400 nointS "a xvi foh1 ID
runs of ~, 73 and 1876, with an average of
80 l-9 Mr.. Ferris opponent was Mr.. Spears,
his teacher, who scored but 67 while his pupil
made 800. This is certainly phenomenal bill
liards for almost any one. It may be the re-
suit of accident. but 1t is not likely to be
such AS Mr.. Ferris is engaged to play in a
three handed tournament his work will be
watched with marked attention in all parts
OF the country, and at the close of the tourn-
ament this man S playing may be able to To-
cate him among the amateurs of America.
Mr.. Ferris is in reality professional, and
not an amateur as We supposed. His first
professional appearance was made in the Min
neapolis tournament, on the same night that
Mclaughlin and Morningstar played their
first game at Allinger's roon1. The playing
In the northwestern tournament, however,
was considerably better than that in this city.
On the same night dt is odd to think that in
both cities: the players attributed their poor
work to the condition of the weather; as Mr..
Spears, who writes us, says: "1t was an
awful night. the weather being sultry yet
there were over 300 spectators present, which
think speaks we'll for billiards in the north
west The score of the game 300 for
Mr.. Ferris to 1s1 for Mr. Carney. The winner
made runs of %, Il, A and II, with aver
age of 10. Not bad work for a young profes-
sional. Mr. Carney averaged nearly 7, with
63 his best run. .
The second game OF the tournament was be-
tween Ferris and Spears, and was won by the
former by a score Of 300 to 261. The winners s
average was under g, with runs Of 3S, 80 and
40. The losers average was not 8. Best
runs, 81, 35 and 40. -, The condition of the
weather then was very severe. as it was dur
/ ing the hot spell, or what we were suffering
from here in the east at the same time The
players have no reason to complain of their
work, as it was better than what Mclaughlin
aid Morningstar did here in merely exhibit
tons, -.-..,..