Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-24
F1NE WORK AT HANDBALL.
Egan of Jersey City outplays Twohill
 of Ireland.

of Ireland.
 The first half of the International handball match between Mike Egan Of Jersey City and Timothy Twohill Of Kanturk, County Cork, Ireland, was played yesterday at Jersey City. The match when complete carries with 1t a wager of $75O side and the title Of champion of the world, the man win ming the oftenest in fifteen games talk ing the money and the honors. Seven games were disposed of yesterday ana the remaining eight will take place at Twohill's native town, in Ireland, on July 12. Of the games played Egan won all, the Corkonian not running higher than six aces in any instance. Egan's grand total amounted to the Iull score of 147 aces, while Twohill tallied only twenty-six. On paper the match appears to be one-sided. but the burly Jerseyite had far from having his own way, and the Irishman put up a game and gallant fight.
 Two totally. different styles of hand ball science were exhibited. Egan used the bull rushing tactics and slammed the little sphere every old way. taking chances to meet it on the rebound rom the back wall, and when he did not meet it he allowed it to go in whatever direction it pleased Directly to the contrary was the method of TWoh1ll. He used q nice, loose, quick drive, afm- ing the sphere for some particular spot and calculating for it's return to some particular part of the alley. It could be easily seen that Twohill is an open court player, for some of the best aces he returned were taken from behind the short line and were never allowed to hop against the back wall at all.
 On the other hand, Egan's strong point was back wall play, and he made most of this point. He is a poor judge of distance and when he goes across to the other side, where there are no back or side walls, he will find himself greatly puzzled. The experts who saw the game yesterday including Phil Casey. say that Twohill is an out and out open court player. and when he gets Egan in Ireland will surprise him.
 An accident which initiated consid- erably against Twohill was an injury to his left elbow in the second game, While making reach for ball which hopped close to the side wall he lost his balance and the point of his elbow came in contact with the hard board. Some time ago his elbow was struck by 8 ball. and the additional knock 1t received yesterday put the limb par tially out of commission. However. Twohill stuck pluckily to his work and stayed to the finish.
 Not since Phil Casey played John Labor, in 1887, had such interest been taken in handbalI match as that of yesterday, and there was big gather ing of devotees of the sport at the Mer- cer street court Amongst those who had seats in the front row of the little gallery were Recorder John w. Golf, Supreme Court Justice Martin J. Keogh. Martin J. Keogh, yJr, Godfrey O'Herlihy, representing the Cork Ex- an1iner, Ireland; Edward R. Carroll, Bartholomew Moynahan, Charles O'Callaghan, Charley Johnson, Dr A. M. Gillen. Dr Dalrymple. Assembly man NJ. Butler. Under Sheriff James Dunn, Billy Nolan, W L. Jones, John Tracy, Phil Casey, Larry Brennan, who has been playing handball for forty years: C. Cashman and J. Gree fish. The prices of admission were $5, $3 and $2.
 The conditions of the competitions was that the man winning the toss should use his own ball buy Fgan called the coin and selected TwohilFs ball. which weighed an ounce and i've eighths. Egan's ball was little heavi- CT. weighing one ounce and three-quar- ters. After few hands it was seen that Twohill was not as fast server as was reported and Egan. who has improved a lot in this respect of late, showed superior form. Neither player can toss with the speed or precision of Drew
 Tn the first hand Egan made five aces and then three, and Twohill did not score until the tenth inning, when he made three aces He netted two aces in the twelfth and while lodging made Q back hand "butt'' which set the crowd wild. There was a lot of court play in the second game, when Egan elected to use his own ball. only four aces going to the Jerseyman for ser vice, the rest being netted by play. Twohill put on a bit of a spurt in the third game, but was beaten out, Egan making 21 to TWohill's 6.
 In this game, and while contesting an ace, with Egan's hand in, occurred the best piece of dodging of the day. Each man "put up" the ball fourteen times and a long ''butt' by Twohin finally put Egan out
 Although tiring toward the end, Egan beat Twohill 21 to love in the last game of all. Twohill was delight ed with the reception he got from the spectators. Egan and Twohill. with Under Sheriff Dunn and Godfrey O'Herlihy, will sail for Ireland next Saturday on the Campania for the pur- pose of finishing the match there.