The sun., 1908-05-08
BILLIARDS.
DemArest Says lie Won't Turn PFO-DalyS
Opinion OF the Champlen.

| The decisive victories OF Calvin Demareat
amateur champion, In both the national and
international championship tournaments has
caused billiard followers TO wonder where
! Demarest would look for new worlds to con-
| Qurr. Apparently he is In a class by himself
so far a. the amateurs are concerned, and
/ there has been some conjecture as TO whether
| he intends turning professional, His teacher,
! George Perkins, was willing it is said, TO
match him against William Hoppe, the latter
! TO play 1871 balk line TO Demarests 1879. and
1 in due time to match him against Hoppe on
| even terms Demarest said emphatically
! yesterday, however, that he was not going
| to turn professional, No chance for It, he
| declared he intends TO continue looking for
amateur laurels.
Maurice DAILY thinks DemaTest IL 4 good
enough player TO stack up against anybody
in the world on even terms, Should he
play a match with Hoppe I'd have bet
Oh him." said Mr.. Dsly yesterday. This
boy Is great billiard player He's got the
system and the confidence and the ingenuity,
The way he goes about his work at the table
shows he is a star at the game. He knows
what he IA going 10 do the moment he steps
up TO the table, and he ha, his mind made
up that he Is going to do IT, Why, he can
rattle on hfty or sixty points In no time, ana
he's liable TO run couple OF hundred al any
time.
He made three runs Of over hundred In
the recent tournament. grand average 20, and
made a single average Of 2S and fraction.
The best professionals cant always do that
when there is something at stake. Demarest
there was something az stake when his ability
was put to the test. II looks 70 me as " his
billiard future vas in the professional ranks;
He's as good an around the table player as
ever saw, and good nurser. which Is one way
10 get points and get them fast, and don't
see that there is anything on the table the
professionals do that he cannot do,
Hoppe ts q better billiard player than
am, said Denarest in reply 70 DAILY remarks
but Daly said he didn't think so. According
TO report Yesterday the Denarest- Rerolle
game last Tuts1ay night was the biggest
betting proposition since Martin Mullen and
Wilson foss met in the amateur champion
ship some years ago.
While playing game At the Knckerbocker
Academy on Wednesday night Deinarest
knocked the tip on his cue, that seli.same tip
having gone through the national and inter-
national championships. Demarest likes
hard tip to get the resistance, he says and
he has no Use for the overhang tip. The
oyerhang intsrfeTes with you when you're
playing mass. he says, and there's no
need for that part OF the leather anyway.
There's nothing behind the extension part
Ia give resistance and you don ht the ball
with that paTt Of the zip. The extension Ia
only in the way
\. Harris (aOl outplayed W Balbridge (25l
IN the three cushion handicap tournament
a. Maurice Daly's Broadway academy last
night he game was very long, ending In
the ph inning. The score was. Harris; 30;
Ballhdge. -.
The French AMI American amateur billiard
PLAYERS who took part IN the billiard tourna-
meut At tho liederkranz a few days ago
We're entertained and dned in the lieder-
krauz lub house last night Oscar Seitz
presided Calvin DemaTest OF Chicago, who
q inf N hal
line championship vas presented with the
international championship cup, pearl
and diamond pin aud a snail horse made
Of bronze going over the hurdle Lucien
Rerolle of France got a gold watch and da-
mOnd fob, 4 T. COnklin Of Chicago also got
q watch. Gardner a pearl and diamond ring,
and POggenburg also a ring
Rerole made a speech in French which
was translat ed into English by Alfred kucbler
he thanked the Americans for giving hiu
a good square deal and said that he would
come back again next year and try for the
tile. The tournament next year will take
place In Chicago.