New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-25
BILLIARD DATES FIXED.
Se0en Star Players Entered for
international Tournament.

The dates and entries were announced last night
for the international billiard tournament to be
played in Madison Square Garden concert hall in
April The tournament will begin on Monday
April 9. and will continue afternoons and evenings
until finished
Play will be at 1s-inch balkline shots IN. for
the worlds championship. The entries to date
Louis Cure Paris; George Sutton, Chicago and
Paris; Willie Hoppe. New York; Jacob Schaefer,
Chicago Albert G. Cutler. Boston; George +. slOs-
son, New-Yorl, and Ora Morningstar. New-Yort
and Paris Maurice Vignaux, who was beaten IN
Paris last week by Willie Hoppe for the world s
championship emblem at 1S-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 will re-
quire ten days. without making allowance for the
play-of Of possible ties. The games will be 800
points up. and the winner will receive a gold and
silver trophy, worth $1,000, emblematic Of the
worlds championship at 1872 billiards. There WILL
in addition, be cash prizes TO the value Of $500
which viii be divided, so per cent 70 the winner and
IS per cent and IS per cent TO the second and third
respectively.
Following the tournament here for the champion
ship all the contestants have agreed to 60 to Chi
cagO and engage in a second tournament. under the
same conditions, except that there Will be no
championship at stake. The winner Of the cham
pionship will have TO defend the emblem for two
years before It will become his personal property.
The players who have entered are the greatest
living opponents of billiards. and the tournament
Student" Slosson and Wizard" Schasfer are too
well known to need comment. Louis Cure IS per
haps the greatest Of the French academy players
lie IS six feet tall and left handed He has no
equal at open table billiards. Willie Hoppe. the
boy wonder, has proved himself the peer Of the
most skilful players IN the world. and only re-
Gently won the worlds championship at 49,
Ora Morningstar and George Sutton have spent
the last three years in the Paris academies. where
they have both improved greatly. Neither has
been IN competition here since the last inter
national tournament, three years ago, In which
Some surprise has been expressed over the entry
Of Albert @. Cutler, Of Boston This s not justified,
Cutler is a player Of splendid stroke and great
promise He reminds one strongly Of the late
Frank Ives. That he possesses championship form
he has shown by the ease with which he has fire.
Quently defeated Edward Mclaughlin and Tom CAL
George F. 6lOssOn IS the first in the field with a
challenge to Willie Hoppe, to play for the world s
championship at ISL balk line, This IS the title
which Hoppe wrested from Maurice Viguaux last
week in Paris SlossOn has deposited $3.50 as a
forfeit and Hoppe viii have to cover the deposit
within ten days. The challenge was issued on jan
This must not be COMPOUNDED with the 1872 balk
line game at which the International tournament
will be played. The Isl game is twice diff
cult the 182 game. 1t is, in fact too difficult
q style Of billiards TO be practical for tournament
play. Hoppe Will probably accept the challenge Of
played IN some public hall IN this city In Mach,
This WILL in a way, introduce the big tournament [.
The HopDe-SlQSsOn match win be 600 points up,
and VIII be played IN one night. The conditions will
be the same as those which governed the Hoppe
NlgnauX match
Hoppe sailed for this country Yesterday C,,ra
has not been announced where these two VIII prac-
tse. Jacob SChaefer is practising in Chicago and
Is reported 10 be In good stroke. Sosson too, IS
playing IN top form Altogether. Billiards bid fair
TO boom here this spring.