New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-03
SPORTS OF THE DAY
BILLIARD TITLE UP.
Jefries freed by Raging Bull.
SO Story Goes.

players q this country Wui Begin play To-
morrow for tine national Class \ Champion
ship title at 49, The list Of entrants for
this important tournament inciuaes T.
Ferdinand PcggenDuTg. Of the Liede-kranz
club. New York City. Edward " Gardner.
OF the Montclair CLUB. MontcIair. y. D.. and
Charles r COnklfn. Of Chicago. a trio. OK
former holders Of The title. Dr. Walter G.
Douglas. the New York Athletic CIu5
champion; Morris D. Brown. champion %
Rrooklyn: Joseph Mayer, intercity ard
PHILADELPHIA champion. and DR.. Walter E
UfenheineT. OF philadelphia. The three
last named are newcomers TO the tournz-
rnent. but from the manner in which they
have performed l. practice IL IS evident
that they are Up q championship qualiaca-
lions.
THE tournament - TO have its setting IN
FrooJ,Ivn. in the rooms OF the Hamilton
C1ub- in Clinton street Under the ss6ed-
11Ie of the National Association Of ArHate1-
Billiard Players. the governing body II
charge OF the championship. twenty-Ons
matches will be decided. exclusive OF posi-
HE ties. so that the tournament VIII be in
progress for two weeks before the sue
cessor Of Charles Wright. the san Fran
cisco amateur, who has recently rel!n-
a,1ished the title to become a pr0fe ssiOnal,
IS determined.
To a degree what may be expected %
Poggeaburg Gardner and Conkltn has
been discounted By their practice and
match play Both Poggenburg and Gard
ner have % late been rolling the worries
indirerentIy IN preparatory work against
Tom Gallagher. The best Of PoggenOurg's
games produced runs Of So. 3 and IS and an
average Of Is fat Mayer. the Philadsl-
phian, at the KnickerOOcker Academy
Brooklyn. put over a fine run Of s.. while
he has been averaging - n his home city
Brown, the BrOOklynite. has defeated Gard
ner in practice. during which he counted
an impressive cluster Of los. while his aver
ages have held consistently between u and
20 DR.. Uffenheimer. the Philadelphia. IS
Of approximately the same skill as Mayer.
and they are practically al stand-on az
10 games won and lost 20 each other.
Philadelphia. represented by Dr. Uhe1-
heimer. and Chicago. BY Charles F. Conk-
lin. will have the honor Of Opening the
tournament in the 90 point contest to-nnOr-
row night. Thereafter two games each day
will be decided The matinee game at
o'clock on Tuesday viii engage Joseph
Mayer. Of Philadelphia. and Dr. Walter a.
Douglas, Of the New York Athletic club
d. Brown. Of Brooklyn and Edward "
Gardner. Of Montclair. y. J.
Tom Gallagher is 10 ofTiciate throughout
the tournament as referee AL Of the COM
petitions are open to CLUB members through
out the city and country upon application
to the secretary or the Hamilton Club for
tickets OF admission
The programme books OF the Queens
County Jockey Club were distributed among
horsemen yesterday Fred Rehberger has
lost none Of his cunning in arranging the
conditions. and the fields are sure 10 be or
good size and well balanced Twelve stakes
are carded. with the Carter Handicap. at
seven furlOngs. as the feature OF the open
ing day on April 10
Bobby Gardner. Of Yale. the national
amateur golf champion. is between two fires
this spring. and is likely TO divide his time
between the track team and golf He IS al
most sure TO represent Yale in all the in
portant track meets and in as many golf
matches as possible Gardner is one OF ire
leading pole vaulters at New Haven and
the track team could i'll spare his services.
especially in the dual meet with Harvard
and in the intercollegiate. where he IS
Word comes from the Pacific Coast that
the second squad Of the Chicago White Sox
may be quarantined. as rUrnOr has il that
Chester Waite. an OutfieIder, is III with
smallpox Other members OF the team were
exposed to the disease. but so far no other
cases have developer. The men are living
in constant dread OF the health authorities,
however. remembering well the fun the
Yankees had last year when Hal Chase vas
stricken with mild form OF the disease n
Georgia
Billy Papke arrived here yesterday from
Havre or the French liner La Lorraine on
his way TO San Francisco. whittier he has
been summoned by JiEsmy CofTroJh- the
fight promoter. Papke said he received
hurried cable message from Cofroth saving
that he thought he could arrange a match
between him and Stanley KetcheI for the
middIeweight championship. and that be
took the first available steamer.
Papke said that he found it almost i'm
possible to get good match on the other
side after his fight on March 70 with Willie
Lewis On his way 10 California Papke vii
stop of for a short time az his home al
kewanee. ILL.,
James J Jeffries does not lack Tor a 5000
press agent Following his hunt for d bear
without seeing q bear and his falling OUT
of a wagon and breaking perfectly sOod
arm comes the story that he was forced
70 take refuge in a tree after being pursued
by a raging bull This time he escaped
with a few scratches caused BY shining
up the tree.
II seems that Jeffries and Bob ArmstTOng-
one Of his sparTing partners were out for q
'crOSs-cOuntry run near Los Angeles yes
terday. when a big bull joined IN she Fun.
and after driving JeffrieS UP a tree chased
Armstrong until he dived hSadiOnS over a
fence and sprained his wrist IL was the
fastest work Jeffries has done since he be-
gan training TO defeat Jack Johnson on
July l.
Owen Moran. who was slightly OUtpointed
by Abe Atteu in their ten-rOund bout on
Friday evening. viii face Matty BALDWIN
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