The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-29
BILLIARDS..
Champion Hoppe Goes to Atlantic city
Slosson Has Nothing to Say.


The championship match at 1871 balkline
having been played, the next big clash OF
cues to attract the attention of billiard lovers
will be the 1872 championship tournament
the'week after Text. The contestants In that
tournament win be William Hoppe, George
Slosson. Jacob Schaefer. Orlando Morning
star, George Sutton. Louis Cure and Albert
Cutler, and before the tournament they will
be called together to discuss and agree on
points that are not now covered by the rules.
such as brushing the table and wipinH the
chalk of the ~balls-points that have arisen
in competition. The promoters OF the tourna-
ment want to have such matters settled be-
forehand by the participants.
After his victory over Slosson on Tuesday
night Hoppe and his party adjourned to the
young champion 3 billiard room, where the
Juice of the grape flowed In celebration.
Hoppe. however. tagged the grape and con-
fined his libations to mineral water. Papa
Hoppe did not go. to the match at all. being
nervous az to temperament on such occa-
sions, but watched the game over the ticker.
Brother Frank Hoppe said yesterday that
William would take part In the 1872 tourna-
ment. a course Of action about which there
had been some doubt. Master william win
begin practice at 1872 next week, In the in
terim he will be in Atlantic City reouperatlng
from the effects Of the practice grind for the
Is. match.
The two Hoppe boys visited the b. b. c. Co.
yesterday, where q check for 81, 600 on account
was handed to them, the same representing
gate receipts from Tuesday nights match.
The bills for expenses were not all In, so the
net proceeds could not be figured exactly.
The gross receipts were 81, 700. The set OF
balls with which the match was played was
presented to William Hoppe by Albert
TroescheT, The balls were declared on all
sides TO be splendid ones, showing no III
n1nRfa VaQtnr1aV nT tho chilling fn Nvhiph II
Is said they were subjected on Tuesday night.
One explanation Of the slowness OF the match
table which chilled the balls. When the balls
get chilled they bump and roll on.
sloss9n had no excuses TO make Yesterday
standard" he wrote to the billiard table
makers, The faHlt was not With the tools
Louis Cure. the Frenchman, who by the
way pr2nonnces his name the same way that
Maurice DAILY and showing better form than
IN his first game here. He averaged SO so
the second time he played DAILY. Scores of
games between Cure and Dsly are as fol-
lows:
cure-o, 50, 70, 20, ~, 2, iOt, /, 20. Tota, 800.
.paiyE2s. 0, as, n,4,o,Ic 10, Total, 100. Average,
,cyrs-ss, . q, 8, 1aS rs, e, %, o; Q, !, g. 1910.
o. Rgss pa q. 1s 8; Z e g n 70; % J. {; !, :, g. ia s. 2''
George sutton. the American billiardist
who has been abroad or four years, arr wed
in New York last night on the steamship
Teutonic. With him were his wife and six
children. Sutton has not been home sinc &c
he went TO Paris to play in the academies
there. The last time he was seen in public
on tn IL side OF the water was in 1901, when he
competed in the 1871 balk line tourney that
was won by Jake Sohaefer. With the arrival
of sutton all the players for the rs tourney
next month are close at hand: in fact they
were all in thin city yesterda y except Sch aefer.
Albert Cutler was here, ha vim q run over from
Boston TO see the Hoppe-Slosson match.
Schaefer is in Chicago. being due here next
week.
sutton has not decided yet where he will do
his practising for the tournament. Either
Hoppe's or the Knickerbecker Academy In
Brooklyn will be the place. i shall be In
this country. until next September at least,
he said, "and am not sure that | will 60 back
then. | have several offers If ] do return,
and left $40 a day TO come over here, but II
there are any openings here or in Chicago, |
will stay here in America. Who won the
Hoppe-Slosson match" Sutton was told
how that encounter came ont, but had no COM
ment to make on the result,
There will be n reception tomorrow night
at the Acquackanock Club in Passaic to
Edward Gardner, who won the amateur
championship in Chicago last week. One
OF the arrangements for the Chicago tourney
consisted of a railing around the table to
keep spectators at a respectable distance.
The idea made a hit with the pla yers and
will be adopted at the future tour naments.
They think il would be a good plan for pro-
fessional contests as well.