Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-11
MARTIN HEBRON AND YOUNG TURNER
MATCHED FOR TEN-ROUND BATTLE

n ILLIARD players who are mem
* bers of the Los Angeles Athletic
~ club are arranging for the an
nual three-cushion billiard champion
ship tournament that will be started
at the. club rooms one week from to-
night. y Entries will be received until
the hour of play and list of nearly
a dozen is expected. DR.. r. b. Grill
fifth, who holds the club championship
was the first to enter, and half dozen
other contenders in former tourna-
ments signified their intention OF COM
peting for the club honors. The tables
will be put in good condition and every
thing made ready for fast playing, and
schedule of games will J arranged
by the tournament committee, of which
Billy HENDERSON is chairman. ThlS
schedule must be played out promptly
or the game will be defaulted against
the offending player All contestants
will play from scratch, which will be
quite q departure from the custom IN
other years. but it furnishes the only
fair means for assuring a meritorious
result.
1t was announced yesterday after
noon by the Santa Anita management
that beginning with next week $1,000
additional money would be added to
this would be distributed in handi-
caps and overnight events. 1t is
planned by the management to put at
least one $1,000 event on the card each
week in addition to the stake feature,
and probably one or two other over
night events of value varying from
5000 to $500 will be added. This will
entice the best class of horses out of
the barns, and the sport promises 10
finish in the stereotyped blaze of
glory. 1t is a wise move by the man
agement, as the Emeryville manage
ment is doing the same thing, and the
best class of horses at the Arcadia
track would go north only for this in
ducement to stay here.
Entries were opened last night at
Hen Berry's Hoffman parlors for the
three cushion billiard tournament that
will begin there next Monday night
This is intended as sort of semi-final
affair to a championship play later, in
which Howard, the amateur champion
of Southern California, will meet the
winner of the tournament. Five en-
tries were received at opening, and
only one other is necessary.
Frank Kenniston, the funny man at
Berrys Hoffman parlors, spent two
cents for postage stamp yesterday to
write the following excellent sugges-
ton: 'Since it seems there is some
difficulty in finding an appropriate
name for the bunch that will represent
Vernon in the Coast league pennant
chase next season, | make the follow
ing suggestion: Let us call them the
Haphazards or the Mishaps. We must
have Hap Hogan played up some way
or other in the nickname" He never
got so serious in all his life. He never
said such sensible thing in the same
period.
An unusually attractive card has
been arranged for the sport this after
noon at Santa Anita. Small fields,
which always prevail when horses of
fair or good class are running, win
be the rule and some exciting finishes
are in prospect. There will be no
especial feature event and it is pleas
ing to note that at least three races
will be stiff rivals for the honors of
the day. Long sprints, longer than
usual, and real overland journeys are
provided in six of the events and even
the babes will have to go farther than
usual when they run for their $400
purse, as they are scheduled to travel
half a mile. The fifth race looks most
attractive on paper because it brings
out fair field for a journey at one
mile and hree-sixteenths. Such
cracks as Miss Ida, Molesey, Oberon,
Vanen, King of the Mist and Knight of
Ivanhoe are named in the overnights
and they are so evenly matched that
a good race should result. The sixth
race undoubtedly will be the sprint
feature, owing to the presence of such
speedy ones as Guy Fisher, Maid of
Gotham, Star Thistle, Fair Annie and
Donald Macdonald. They will go
seven furlongs and are very evenly
matched at the weights.
Martin Hefron. the crack New York
bantamweight who holds two decisions
and one knockout victory over Eddie
Menney, and who never has been beat
en-, was matched yesterday with