Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-25
The Summaries.
BIG BILLIARD TOURNEY.
Seven Star Players Entered for Inter
national Event

NEW YORK. January 25-The dates and
entries were announced last night for the
international billiard tournament to be
played in Madison Square Garden concert
nall In April The tournament will begin
on Monday. April D. and will continue AFT
ernoons and evenings until finished.
Play VIII he at 1S-nch baIkiine two shots
In. for the worlds championship The en-
tries to date are: Louis Cure, Paris; George
Sutton. Chicago and Paris; Willie Hoppe.
New York; Jacob Schaeffer, Chicago; Albert
G. Cutler, Boston; George F.. SCISSOR, New
York. and Ora Morningstar, New York and
Paris. Maurice Fignaux. who was beaten
in Paris last week by Willie Hoppe for the
worlds championship emblem at Is-inch
balkline, one shot in, may decide to enter,
but is considered doubtful
The seven entries which are assured
means that twenty-one games will be
played. which VIII require ten days, without
making allowance for the play-off of pos
sible ties. The games will be zoo POINTS up.
and the winner will receive a gold and sill
yer throphy. worth $1,000 emblematic of the
worlds championship at 49, billiards
There will. in addition be cash prizes TO
the value of $500, which will be divided
80 per cent to the winner and 30 per cent
q,
spectively.
Following the tournament here for the
championship. all the contestants have
agreed to go to Chicago and engage in a
second tournament. under the same condt-
tons, except that there will be no cham
pionship at stake. The winner of the cham
pionship will have to defend the emblem
Tor two years before it will become his per-
sonal property.
The players who have entered are the
greatest living eXponents of billiards. and
the tournament promises to be the greatest
ever held in this city. Student Sosson
and wizard Schaeffer are too wei known
to need comment. Louis Cure Is perhaps
the greatest of the French academy players
He is six feet tall and left-handed He has
no equal at open-tabie billiards. Willie
Hoppe, the boy wonder. has proved himself
the peer of the most skififul players In the
world, and only recently won tie world S
championship at ISL
Ora Morningstar and George Sutton have
spent the last three years In the Paris
academies, where they have both improved
greatly Neither has been seen in compe-
utfon here since the last international tour
nament. three years ago, in which both took
part.
Some surprise has been expressed over
the entry of Albert G.. Cutler of Boston
This is not justified Cutler is a player of
splendid stroke and great promise. He re-
minds one strongly of the late Frank Ives
That he possesses championship form he
has shown by the ease with which he has
frequently defeated Edward Mclaughlin
and Tom Gallagher. the local "shortstops"
George +. Slosson Is the first in the field
with challenge to Willie Hoppe to play
for the worlds championship at 1871 baIk
line. This is the title which Hoppe wrested
from Maurice Vignaux last week in Paris
Slosson has deposited $3.50 as a forfeit. and
Hoppe will have to cover the deposit within
ten days. The challenge was issued on
January 81
This must not be COMPOUNDED with the 49,
balk line game at which the international
tournament will be played. The ISL game
Is twice as difficult as the 1872 game 1t
is, in fact. too difficult a style of billiards
to be practical for tournament play Hoppe
viii probably accept the challenge of Slos-
son, and the plan now is to have the match
played in some public hall In this city In
March. This will. in way, introduce the
big tournament. The Hoppe-Siosson match
will be 500 points up, and will be played in
one night. The conditions will be the same
as those which governed the Hoppe
VignauX match.
Hoppe sailed for this country yesterday
Cure and Sutton will sail for America on
March Il 1t has not been announced
where these two will practice Jacob
Schaffer is practicing in Chicago, and Is re-
ported to be in good stroke. Slosson too
is playing In top form. Altogether, billiards
bid fair to boom here this spring.