The evening world., 1906-04-09
CUE EXPERTS
START PLAY IN
BIC TOURNEY
Cure and Morningstar
Play Opening Game of
~5OOPoints To- Night.

In superb fettle. with two weeks o,
practice. Louis Cure. OF Paris; Jacob
ScAaef,r and George Sutton. of Chicago;
George L. SlosSon. While Hoppe and
ora c. Morningstar. of New York. n
4. G.. Cutler. OF Boston. are prepared
for the international tournament FOR the
worlds championship cup at lS-inch
balkline. two shots In. which opens at
Madison Square Garden Concert Hall
this evening. Cure and Morpingstar
playing the opening game.
Great interest has been manifested
during the practice period In the play
fng OF the seven contestants, although
such preparatory work has not in the
past been an accurate forecasi in tour
naments or even match contests. and
more especially so in championship
events. Only one professional balkliner
has ever been known to so faster In
match or than in practice,
but he is not included In the present
entry list.
In what has been how by the play
ors. 1t may safely be said hat no
faster bunch has ever Contested in a
billiard championship
HOPPE in Fine Form.
81 far as public practice goes. Schae-
fer. Slosson and Hoppe have made the
higAest runs and best averages. Schae-
fer has been playing in Allinger's room.
at Philadelphia. for a week. where he
has put on the finishing touches OF a
long preparation begun at Chicago.
Morningstar has done considerable in
private, II meagre reports rave been
received from Cutler. playing at Boston.
although his clever cue work in recent
tournaments with leading sloratops
has Indicated good form. and he is ex-
pectcd TO make a good tournament
showing.
Aside from Schnefer's record-hreak-
ing run OF S5S points n average of 50
at Chicago. Hoppe reached the best
practice marks last Thursday. when he
made runs OF Ito and 66, averaging 8, IL
in 400 points. This was only three days
aiteC his practice rpllly began. He has
also made runs OF lI6 and d and average
OF 81 All. the lowest average IN public
practice httng Is 4-22.
SCISSORS practice has given his
friends great encouragemcnt, particu-
larly his excellent showing In a 90
point game VITA Poggenberg. IN watch
the Student" made high runs OF 10
and 1874. and an average OF 10 all. The
following day Slosson made a high run
OF 81 and an average of IS FOR 400 points.
H. fell away In pTuctice to II 9-i3 aver
age on Saturday. but most of his games
have been around Is and 80. which IS
satisfactory to followers OF this form
OF dope.
Cure Has Done Well.
Cures practice has been with Maui
rice DAILY. and the tournament veteran
Is satisfied that the left-handed ana
o~ne-lcgged Frenchman Is "A champion
shin possibility. AS an 1Iology to NJ.
Nils bonn trousers legs, he has =
habit OF standing on one lex in making
position draws with corner drives.
High u II of ll2. 50 and 81 and an
average OF II 40 in 400 points has
been Cures best work.
Considerable wise money VIII be
placed on sutton to carry OF the big
solid silver cup, n mis- grclt i'm
proVement during his academy play in
Paris gives him n place OF prominence
among the contestants in this tourna-
ment. In practice play Sutton made
an unfinished run OF III and an aver
age OF "a In 500 points last Wednesday
which vas his best.
Cure Has Best Record.
on form. In past tournaments, Schae-
fer has never had to beat more
true in 1883. when Il was Vlgnaux. and
In 1876. 1890 and 1901 II was Slosson
| who won two out OF the three. Again
In 1856 II was V.gnaux and Slosson,
and. after several triple ties. schaercr