The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-15
HARDER
GAME TO PLAY
De Orc Says One Fifteen
Ball Match Better Than
Fifty Cushion

ST. Louis, Feb. 15-That pocket
billiards, which years ago knocked
about under the more plebian label
of pool" is a more scientific game
than billiards, is III of the conten-
tions made by Alfredo de Orc, the Gu
ban u wizard. who passed through
st. Louis the past week on his way to
New York.
De Oro had just come from Denver
where he dropped the -three-cushion
championship TO Joe Carney. He was
on his way to New York where he
hopes to acquire another title which
he will take out west and fling to the
four winds.
This thing of acquiring titles is a
regular habit with De Gro. Ever so
often he bags a pool or three cushion
championship. then tlips it away. At
that, though. the Wiseacres put the
Cuban ncXt to the Incompatible Hop
pc in the cue hall of fame.
Pool Is His Pet Game
II like pool. That's my pet gae.'
opined the Cuban the othe rday. Il
would rather play one game of pool
than fifty matches of billiards. There
is more science to it. Then, its a pref
tier game to watch. The best evidence
of the truth of this assertion is the
fact that championship pool matches
liNdIlihlN uFdN more pdtluiS tudil
championship billiard matches. Its a
question of turning them away at a
pool match. You've got to paper the
house TO make a showing in billiards.
81 don't like billiards for another
reason. Its too stereotyped. What is
there to straight rail? Let an expert
play and all that Is necessary is one
gather shot. Then he'll run a thou
sand or more. The same for ISL and
1S.2 lalkline. One must develop that
delicate stroke and the he's through.
Likes 1i-Inch Balklinc
Three cushions is not a typical game
of billiards.. The man who can't play
straight rail always can play a little
you'll surely count. However. l think
the happy medium would be 14-inch
balkline. one shot in balk. This style
of billiards has never been put to a
| real test.
THE champions have always clung.
to 1871 and 1S.2. although no one has
been developed to wrest the title from
the little title holder is with a club.
However. in 14.1 they should find a
| game that would appeal to the masses.
This style will force the player to
develop along every line of the game.
He must have Il delicate stroke as we'll
as the power to drive. In lS.2 there
is little OF that.
Never figure that billiards COM
parcs with pool. When experts play
| pool. il is beautiful. 1t thrills. Moth
ing in billiards like the wonderful
combination shops that arise in poe
| kct billiards. as it is o called.
Makes Several Comparisons
Another thing about the science of
the two games. In pool You have a.
pocket 4 IL inches in width. Ii you
are playing a hank shot. Your objeo-
tive point is Just 4 1-2 inches wide.
What about billiards"
"A billiard ball is . 3-S inches in
diameter. That means that you have
an objective point of ! is inches. You
can hit it thin IN either side or full.
You have a space equal to the dia-
meter of three billiard balls as an OBJ
~iective point. whereas in pool you
must shoe, ut an object lust 4 Ia
inches in width. I am for pool first.
then billiards.. I've played them both
for twenty Years and know whereof I
speak"
SO much for science. AS to his fu-
turc De Orc that he will
compete in the coming worlds cham-
pionship pool tournament at Philadel-
phia. when it is held in the neal fu.
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