New-York tribune., 1906-04-08
billiard STARS READY,
pg1K STARTS TO-MORROW.
TnrTds Greatest Masters to Contest
for pionship Emblem.

-, billiards will begin play tomorrow in fha
-, hall at Madison Square Garden for the
e,s.s championship emblem at IS-incb hallr
=. two shots in and $4.IJ0 in prize money
rl,o will compete are Willie Home Ceorre
.,-son. Jacob Schaefer. Louis Cure. George r
-, ora c. Morningstar and Albert Cutler
orIv prominent absentees will be NIa,,rica
- the veteran French expert. who 7i5
f..l able 10 make the trip from Paris. and
&c T1alv Of this city. whose failing eve
-. has obliged him 70 drop tournament plav
!, ,fe seven PLAYERS entered. all save cure
.,s-.irestsr and Cutler are or have been worlds
.,soDs at the balk line game Sosson
sssese-. Sutton and Hoppe have held the 1S1
s.r,,iouship NJ different times, and the last
- holds The emblem to-day by virtue of
.s.,ns won it from VignauX. in Paris. on Japu.
- = last. and defended it against SlossoU in
.bis city on March q
"a, history of the worlds championship az
,se buIiaris is 10 so long as that at the 1S.1
- The latter title first played for in
=. concert hau at Madison Square Garden in
scr and was won 10y Slosson. who defeated
c.hsefer Ives Daly aud Sutton.
Tbs FRS worlds championship at 1S.2 was
,.,es IN the Grand Hotel in Paris on February
,sto 10 1893. cure. Sutton, NignauX and Slos-
.,r were the contestants Play FOR the
bs-,rionship emblem and $1,000 in cash. plus
~ entrance fees and net receipts Cure Sut-
=, and vignaux tied for first place with two
.s.,ories and one defeat each. Slosson lost
eveTv game ne played.
weeks before play began the four contestants
entered into parole agreement 10 play off ties
!, well as divide the net receipts equally.
Konths before that Cure. sutton and Vignaux
l,d signed q document. requiring all ties to be
5s,,ralined by the general averages. and specify
t,r ss rrizes only the emblem. the given money
and the entrance fees
At the conclusion Of the final game. Cure vs.
vgRaux it was announced that ties would he
r1s4ed "A ir ;he same hall. beginning on Feb
mary . Yignsux declined to play off claim
,nt - have wcn on general average. and car
rss the case into court Litigation lasted for
r'ne months The championship was awarded
10 viguaux who made grand average Of - 20
~ the tournament. whereas Sutton made POSI-
and Cure. 1915.
The emblem having become the property of
Tgnsux ny the courts award Sutton chal-
lsnged for it a. soon as the litigation was over,
and the match played in the Grand Hotel
in Paris, on January 20. 1904 Vignaux won by
the scant margin Of 500 TO 496. and kept the
championship The winner averaged 1923 ana
made high run Of 14S.
Sncs the challenge Of Sutton no player has
sspirad 70 wrest the emblem from Vignaux BY
clause in the deed OF gift the emblem became
the personal property OF any player who held
It for two years. providing he accepted ali chaI-
ienges. On January % last. therefore the en-
tlem passed to Vignaux
For the coming tournament a new en-
HEN has been offered under conditions sim
lar TO the old one Nenaux OF course is the
present holder of the lS2 championship There
viii, therefore. be two champions So to speak
after the coming tournament. This is rather an
odd situation and it is 10 he regretted that
FigEauK did not SEQ fit to enter the lists again
The new emblem. like the old. viii be subject 10
challenge and viii belong. outright to the first
player Who holds the title for two years The
promoteTs Of the tournament figure that Vign-
aux by not entering has defauited the cham
pionship
The seven entrants in the coming tournament
are So well known and have been before the
billiard public long that introduction is
scarcely necessary
The career Of Hoppe has been brefest hut
perhaps most brilliant He is only eighteen years
olo. but started 80 play billiards when a more
child He received instruction from his father
Frank Hoppe. and from Jacob Schaefer and
soon developed into phenomenon He plays
without effort and as accurately as a machine
When he first began 10 play exhibition games in
the shots
Hoppe made his debut in tournament play at
Dsly's academy in this city in 1901 when he
met ORTIZ, Gallagher. Mclaughlin and Morn
ingstar in handicap affair al 1872. and easily
aeieaied them. Hoppe next played in the cham
plonship Of The young masters" at the Grand
hotel IN Paris in 1904 He met and defeated
sanchez, tTloTieux. Morningstar and Ducasse.
Flsy was III lS.2 balk line. and games We're 100
Tti
ana Siosson for the IS.1 title. in both of which
hoppe scored easy victories. bring his brief
but spectacular record down 10 date Until his
recent return 10 this city. where he has opened
an academy, Hoppe has Deen playing in the
Fars academies since 1909.
me careers Of Schaefer and Slosson are 50
,toseiy linked with the history Of billiards for
me last three decades that the performances Of
elther one would fill a volume. Slosson played
nls hrst public match iu Springfield. Mass. on
VetobeI -. 1870 Schsefeu made his public
DEBUT in Washington Hall, indianapolis, on July
- iei3 Slosson and Schaefer first met on Oc-
s,oer - lSf.. In Indianapolis. for 500 a side
siosson Won by score OF 900 to :}21. Since
men these two billiardsts have met oftener in
public than any other pair. and there has al
NsEs been intense rivalry between them.
,o'haefers first public match in the East was
waved ir FOrds Opera House in Washington
~ april 20. 1876, with Lewis Shaw, for $1,000 a
sle sl schaefer Was beaten by 800 20 81. Scbae-
.tfs nrst appearance in p tournament was in
ee.Lninany Hall this city. on November 20 to IS
1't9- ana he made poor showing, finishing last
d DION, Rudophe. SlOsson. GARNER, DAILY and
= Dion finished ia the order named. I'm the
second tournament for the championship Of the
world played IN Cooper Institute. this city, on
January D TO February 10, 1879. Schaefer scored
ms first notable victory. lie won the tourna-
..utIlt- with Siosson second Sexton third, Daily
lourth GARNER fifth. Gallagher sixth, Rudoiphe
seventh and Heiser eighth.
ieaT after year Schaefer and Slos5On met "a
matches and tournaments, with hon0rs about
esei' THIS pair also met all the other prominent
.--'lte and foreign experts and always made a
900 showing. II is estimated that Schaefer ana
hos Faa -rFte