The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-07
E-SCHAEFER
PLAY BEFORE KING
Billiard Experts Tour Europe,
Giving Many Public
Exhibitions.
HOW FRENCH CHAMPION
MET HIS WATERLOO
BaIkline Players Have Been
Holding Three-CushiOn
Game Back.
BY LLOYD JEVNE.

notice that tho balklinc cracks are
knocking the hrce-cushion game OF bil-
lizards, simply because they have had
their own way and reaped all the har-
vest by keeping the game In the back
ground for the last twenty years. but
thrce-cushions is forcing its way 10 the
front again.
Now you take balkline match OF
500 or 600 points say between jacob
Schaefer and George sutton. one odnas p,ayse se
that il Is not interesting 10 the PUBIC
and The people go away disguised ana
vow they. will never attend anothsa ,a
iuai,n On the other hand, among the
tluce- cushion experts. when they play a
match the game invariably is in DOUBT
until the last point is made ana lhe
contest is exciting from start TO nnlSh.
because there are so many Spectacular T
shots. and the safety work Is one or
the features OF the game. The three
cushion game is so much easier TO un-
derstand, as everybody knows that your
cue ball is required To his three distinct
cushions before making the count, or. IN
other words before coming ,r IN W., eohtHce 1aEe
eighteen inch ballltne billiards, for in
stance. There are four lines drawn on
the table. Each line Is exactly eighteen
Inches from the cushion which makes
eight spaces around the table and one
large space In the center OF the table
Now for instance, you have the TWO
OBJECT bsllS III any O!lc vi tiiSSV Sp>NSs,'
barring the large one in the center which
,iocsu'L count. you must drive one or
both balls out OF the space IN Whlch
they happen 10 be in on the first or sec
o,;G shot or forfeit your shot but you
Csn bring them back In the same space
and have two more shots TO get them out
The balkline game IS so compllc5ted
that ninc;y-nine out OF every hundred
don't understand il and conSeQuenti! IL
is not ihe popular game in the billiard
world. You take the billiard academies
.F,g md nj a.
cities and all the great players such as
Schacfcr Hoppe sutton Morningstar
NiruauX. Barutel, Fournie. Marva. De
ORC. Cine. DAILY. Sanchez. Horgan. Day,
Icon Capron, I.amothe Cotton. Carter
aud YOURS truly, played three-cushions,
~ bslliline game was then rare
hing. as everybody wanted 10 see and
WAGER on lhres-Cushion caroms.
Great Game.
The greatest game / ever had was with
Sanchez at Paris / was engaged at The
Grand academy and he played al the
Olympia academy. i was advertised as
worlds champion az the three-cushion
game and Sanchez did not like that, as
hc was supposed to he rhe best in Eu-
rope So after seeing me play he thought
he could beat me in walk and he chai-
ten points IN 100. which he thought |
would not accept but he got fooled. /
accepted same, but still the talent thought
he would beat me as / was playing poor
N. but / knew | would be in good shape
i'm few days. ] could still feel the mo-
uon OF the ship. going TO Paris. and 1
would feel dizzy most of the time, We'll,
we made the match, TO be played in ten
days in the Olympia academy, winner TO
take al the gate receipts and all per-
ccntagc OF the betting. which amounted
To about $500. including the side bet.
Bcsides several American friends bet
3 lot Of money on me and gave me half
thcr winnings. Thc game nctted me
about $1,000 all told and il came In Just
si,,I,I l IN
gamc was called and Mr.. Sanchez started
off with rush and was thirty points TO
my ten In no Time: He mad mad been play
never hit ball on IL. so l was at n big
disadvantage. as 1 had 20 learn the
angles. But pretty soon l get going and
Sanchez got 10 sweating drops as big as
billiard balls. / caught him and passed
him and the score stood 30 10 36 In my
favor. Then Mr. Sanchez called for an
jntcrmission, as he could not stand the
strain and he wanted n chance to re-
cover hut he never came 10, as l went
right through and won the match. 80 TO
a. After that match The three-cushion
experts lot mo alone. as they did not
think l Was so easy After that Jacob
Schaefer and myself took a trip on the
continent and played I'm all tho big cities
Of Europe and we had a successful trip.
Fun for All,
We had funny experience in Berlin.
al one OF tho big hotels where we were
stopping. The guests generally hang
their clothes on the doorknobs in the
hall and set their shoes out TO be shined
We got in about . a. m and changed
things around, putting a pair of soldiers
boots in front OF lady's door and vice
versa and, we remained awake waiting
TO hear the fun. Well. about I o'clock
we heard A commotion in the hall and
as ! was half asleep. ] thought n war
had broken loose. AS i never head such
Thought we knew something about Il
but VIC acted as innocent as lambs.
From Berlin we went TO London and
played a two weeks engagement at
Argyle hall and packed tho house every
night Jake went back 10 America and
] stayed in London ABOUT three months
giving lessons We also played before
The king at Buckingham palace and his
maiesty's court greatly enjoyed the