Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-22
BY THOMAS J. GALLAGHER.

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Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, October 22.-The first
noteworthy billiard event of the season
took place last Wednesday night at the
Amateur Billiard Club, where William r.
Hoppe and Harry P. Cline played an ex-
hbition game of 400 points at 1S.2 balk-
line. The contest resulted in victory
for Hoppe by a score of 400 to $50 The
winner made a high run of 100 and aver
aged 81 1-19, Cline's best run was 81 and
his average II Ills.
From now until next spring there is
likely to be activity at all styles of bill
lizards in both professional and amateur
circles. Thursday night Edward w.
Gardner and ]. Ferdinand Poggenburg
will compete in the grand hall of the
Arion Society for the interstate challenge
cup. offered by that organizations bill
lard club, of which l.. Ruesche is chair
man.
Early in November Alfredo De Orc.
champion, and Frank Sherman OF W ASH
ington, challenger, will play for the pro
fessiOnal pocket billiard championship at
Doyle's Academy.
Then November II a professional tour
nament to establish a new world chaln-
pionship at 1872 balkline will begin at
TIE I1otel <AStOI. LII tiiO
John Morgan and John DAILY will have
to play for the three-cushion carrom
championship.
Daily challenged the winner of the game
between Carney and Horgan, which was
won by the latter. at Wright's parioT
San Francisco, late in September. Botn
the champion and the challenger are now
on the Pacific coast and 1t is proDaole
they will play in San Francisco. There
is, however. possibility that either ST
Louis or New York will witness the
match.
Arrangements are in progress for pocket
and balkline tournaments under the Ju-
risjiction of the National Association OF
Amateur Billiard Players. That organ
iZation has control of the three cups EN-
blematic of the national pocket and the
national and international balkltne cham-
pionships. The pocket and national balk-
line emblernS will be mediums of compe-
titions, but 1t is doubtful if an interna-
tional tourney will be held Efforts are
being made to induce NJ. Mortier, who
played sensational billiards in the tourna-
ment at Paris last spring, and Herr
Poensgen, the German champion, who
figured in the international event at the
Liederkranz in 1911, to come here after
the 1872 title. So far neither has given a
definite response to the invitations eX-
tended NJ. Mortier says he would like
to visit the United States, but he breads
the sea voyage involved. Poensgen, who
father, at Dusseldorf. expresses the be-
lief that business will compel him to re-
main in Germany.
Four different Brooklyn clubs have I'M
officially expressed desire to stage the
next national balklne tournament The
success Of Morris d. Brown of Brook
lyn at the Hanover Club last winter de-
veloped unusual interest in tho gentle
mems game among the amateur devotees
of billiards in that borough. His bril-
liant and plucky performances were
sources Of qualification and pride to his
legion of friends in Brooklyn. AS a con-
sequence members of the borough's
Union League. Hamilton, Montauk and
Brooklyn clubs desire that the next series
Of games. for the trophy now held by
Mr. Brown be held within their respect
i've edifices.
The Arion Society will not ask a sane
ton for it's monthly games from the Ma
tional Association of Amateur Billiard
Players. Nor will Maurice DAILY ask a
sanction for his room tournament Hav-
ing disqualified Edward w. Gardner, JO-
seph Mayer. Charles Conway and Charles
White for participating in games for the
Arion cup the national association will
probably apply similar rulings to Pog-
genburg and the gentlemen who play in
Days tournament.
Messrs. Poggenburg, Gershel. Thomson.
Muldaur, Conway and Blake. A novel
feature of the affair will be that the
freeze will be abrogated. DAILY insists
that rule is a relic of antiquity that i'm
poses a hardship upon good players who,
after having brought the balls together
by well executed position shots, suffer
because the cue ball and some object
ball settle in contact. He proposes to
let the players decide whether they will
play directly at the ball to which the
cue ball may be frozen or before play
ing have the frozen ball separated with
a sheet OF paper.
Koji Yamada, the Japanese expert. who
has entered for the worlds champion
Brunswick-Ba lke-Collender Company that
he will remain in Berlin to practice and
will be a passenger on the KronprinZ
Wilhelm, which will leave Hamburg Oc-
tober %
II. A Wright, former national anna
teur champion. who is now the propre-
tor of palatial billiard rooms in San
Francisco and Oakland. may engage in
the coming tournament at the Hotel
Aston
AL Taylor, formerly of Chicago, but
now a resident of Milwaukee, asplres to
championship honors. He has forwarded
his entry, supported by the required fee
of $3.50, to the Brunswick-Balke-Co llender
Company.
George Moore, who holds the three
cushion high run record OF fifteen, is
practicing balkline. He plays almost
every night with Harry Cline at Thum s
and averages from II to 10, while Cline
goes from % to 80.
W. P. Mussey of Chicago, i'm whose room
Calvin Demarest developed, says there is
a real billiard prodigy in Chicago His name