The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-04
PREPARING FOR
bALkL|NE MATCH
NOTED BILLIARDIsTs GETTING IN
SHAPE FOR INTERNATIONAL
-- TOURNAMENT.
KOJI VA MAD A H E
WILLIE HOPPE SHOWS BETTER
THAN EyER-sUTToN, sLos-
SON, CLINE AND OTHERS
LINING Up.
KOJI VA MAD A HE R E

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-The most in
teresting development of the past week
relative to the worlds championship
at 49, balkIine billiards, TO begin one
week from tomorrow at the Hotel As
tor, was the arrival OF the japanese
expert, Koji Yamada, He came from
Berlin, where he resided for two
years and was highly esteemed for
personality and professional ability.
He is the smallest biliardist who
ever engaged in a championship tour
nament. He rarely uses bridge and
reaches about table in manner
that reminds one Of the late Jacob
Schaefer.
At naasse strokes he seems most
proficient, and his skill in this re-
spect is displayed with either hand
with equal facility. He has amazed
spectators at Siosson's s, where he IL
practising, by first executing q diff
cult masse with his right hand and
then using a left hand stroke to make
q similar shot
The matter OF fact and prompt way
In which, with either hand, he solved
masse positions astonished even Sios-
son and caused the comment: "He is
great at that speciality, and can make
a masse better with his left hand than
can with my right. hope he Will
eet in good shape for the. tourna-
nent, for liz he does he viii prove a
strong attraction
Untn Thursday night Willie Hoppe
limited his practice TO knocking the
balls around as he expressed il. Then
RE engaged III game 81 sGe -poists
with Morris d. Brown, national anna
teur champion. The game lasted nine
innings and was featured by a run
OF aia. Mr.. Brown was strongly i'm
pressed by the perforrna nee and said:
willie, In my opinion. is playing rrfuch
better than he was a year ago. His
delivery Is free, his execution accu-
rate. and his line nursing is the best
have ever seen him do"
AT Thums Harry Cline Is doing brill
liant work His style is more attrac-
tive than that OF any other aspirant
for the worlds championship His
lowest average so far is %, which he
made against Morris .. Brown.
Against willie Thomson and George
Moore he has scored averag es of Sc.
SO, CO IL and II 43-7. His best run,
go. was rf,6deewhen playing Thomson
All. TAYLOR. who represented NIL
waukee. will finish his preparation
At Maurice Days whera he Will per
form every night this week He Is
said to hare improved greatly since
his last professional appearance in
New York. which was in the shot
stop tournament in the Concert nan
~ the New York theater, November.
1906.
George Sutton is playing as well as
ever. October 2eth in game of 500
points he averaged 100. In other games
he twice averaged So Is. Last Mon
day. with no higher run than S., ne
averaged so In 500. The following
day he scored 500 In eight innings.
averaging 81 Is. He ran 14f, l3s ana
go, Although he ran 3o4 October -Sa,
his general play lis very steady anu
not SO dependable on big runs as II
formerly was. He will remain in chi-
eago until F'riday@cf this week.
Ora Morningstar, who holds the Isl
championship, is in excellent practice,
and frequenters OF Harry Davis room
in Pittshurg are enthusiastic about his
chance of becoming the 1872 cham
pion. ON Tuesday afternoon ne play
ed 900 points. averaged 80 and ran
1877, 16T and ESQ. His execution was
unusually rapid and is evidenced ps
the fact that the run of 2sa was made
In IS minutes
The veteran George F. Slosson, VINO
has held numerous championships, Is
in excellent form and playing with as
much care. earnestness and skill as
ever before. Although his best runs
during the week were iTs and 1855, per,
sons who have watched him at exer-
else assert that he will be an element
OF interest, II not victor In the conn
ing tournament. and recall his con-
uusst at Madison Sanar. Garden IN
April, 1905 when he secured the cham
pionship from so formidable an array
OF opponents as Sutton. Schaefer.
Hoppe. Cure. Cutler and Morningstar,
The Brunswick Baike-Collender COM
pany, promoters OF the tournament,
announce that on the first and second
DAYS two games will be played each
night. Thereafter until the final is
rea ched four games VIII be played
daily, two in the afternoon and like
number in the evening. There will no
reserved seats for afternoon events.
Inasrnuch as two games will generally
be In progress at the same time. two
referees will be required.