New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-02
WILL DEFEND HIS TITLE
Sutton to Play Hoppe for 1872
BaIkIine Championship.
BOTH IN SPLENDID FORM
Cushion Carrom Tournaments
Will Be Fine Thing for
Amateurs, Says Daily.

\ billiard match for ;he 49, balkline
! championship. won by William Hoppe in
/ the tournament last November. Will be
played between the champion and George
Sutton. Of Chicago on Wednesday even
ing at the Hotel Astor. The last time
these two famous players competed SUIT
ton won, depriving Hoppe Of the 49, title
That was or March 10. 1912. On Fcbru-
AIRY g 1872. they played for the 49, en-
blcm. which later became Hopes per-
sonal property. and Sutton was defeated
b! a sco-c OF 800 to 3i4.
Hoppe has been playing better than
ever before in his practice AT McGraws.
On Tuesday he averaged ~ 80 In a game
OF 40 points. On Wednesday night. with
Jose Ortiz as an opponent. he averaged
Il 81 in 800 points. and after having made
a final run of Ia continued until he had
7 completed 20. when he stopped. without
! having missed. On Thursday he made
100 in ten innings. averaging 70.
Reports from Chicago say Sutton is
Playing big billiards, and they are prob
ably true fo- he usually performs re-
mGrkabe feats in practice. While pre-
pairing for his recent match with Morn
! ingstar ne ran 27S II 81. He will arrive
! ia New York to-day and practise ct
! Maurice Daly's afternoon and evening
for three days. Although Hoppe and
Sutton are both great artists. their meth
DDS arc quite different. Hoppe Is fc-
sourccfu. aud versatile. lie combines
masterfu! general execution with int"li-
gent management OF the spheres is
brilliant oren table performer aud superb
I'm position play.
Sutton IS a specialist lie applies him
self so far as possible to ends OF the table
/ manipulation and line nursing. In both
| OF those specisl,ies he cxcels 10 an extent
| that establishes him as a formidable OPP
I pouent. Wh.u in good stroke and favored
/ by suspicious breaks. be rolls up big runs
! and averages. II vas against Hoppe in
the tournament at Madison Square Gar
/ den in l@,j that he made his unequallcd
average OF 100 in 800 points. Whether he
can come back will he decided BY
Wednesdays game. which Will be con-
: tested in the grand ballroom Of the Astor
Reserved seats and boxes will be on sale
At MtGraw's Days. SCISSORS and
Thum's and AT the office Of the Bruins
wick Bake Collender Company. whera
reservations can be made by telephone.
Maurice Daily believes that the decision
Of che National Association Of Amateur
| Billiard Players to hold annual tourna-
mepts az cushion carroms will result In a
general Improvement OF the skill Of anna
teur billiard players. lie and George I.
I SIosson have contended that candidates
for amateur balkl!ne championships
should have practised at cushion carroms
preliminary 20 engaging ~ tournaments
They supported that contention by point
ing 10 tho fact that the introduction OF
cushion carroms marked the beginning Of
the wonderful advancement incident To
prof, ssional Billiards in The last thirty
/ tive years.
Orlando Mornings;ar. OF Pittsburgh. ISL
balkIine champion. has announced that
he will accept the challenge OF william
! l. Hoppe for the title which he holds
and viii pro.ably name Pittsburgh. March
70 as the place aud time for decision.
George n. c'Handless'D Sutton Was at
the Pullman Billiard Hall. Detroit last
week He liz not only wonder at Dill
ards. but a physical marvel AZ masse
execution he is almost incredibly expert.
| The fact that he makes masse strokes is'
he says. due 10 'joshing'' about picture
of himself. taken at st. Louis. II was
burnorously commented that he was
posing FOR nassc when photographed
/ That comment caused him 20 apply HIM
self TO mssse practice. Now he can make
some masse strokes that no other player
can accomplish.
| Clarence jackson continues TO play adj
/ mira Bile 49, balkllnc. Week before last
AT Kansas city he averaged l7is I'm 1850
| points. on January IS at ST. Louis. he
| averaged % in 40 II IN rumored that ne
| il likely to challenge for the ls-2 cham-
| pionshp.
Pierre Naupome. the threc-cushion ex-
merit. who represents ST. Louis In the Ma
tional Billiard League contests. is Of
French ancestry and was born in Vera
cruz, Mexico. on September ~. ISL
/ Alfredo De orc has accepted the chal-
Ienee of Thomas Ilueston for the pocket
billiard championship. and named New
! York as the city I'm which the issue must
he decided De orc has been playing In
| Killing & Aliens room. Kansas city Hues-
ton was billed to play yesterday in new
| billiard room in Cincinnati opened oy
Louis Marks.