Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-30

Willie Hoppe, the worlds champion
billiardist, will be in Newark tonight
and so will Koji Yamada, the great
Japanese expert. These two leading
members of their profession come to
the Metropolitan Billiard Parlors,
Market and Washington streets
Play is scheduled to start at $50
o'clock and 400 points will decide the
match. Hoppe, although the cham
pion, has been beaten by Yamada
and it is almost a certainty that the
two men will meet in big tourney
contemplated in New York during
the winter season or else Yamada is
sure to challenge Hoppe for an in
dlvidual match for the title. Yamada
has created sensation by his won
derful playing and he went out as far
as the coast giving exhibitions of his
skill. He came into prominence in a
hurry and his success has been
phenomenal. To beat Hoppe in the
match tonight would be q big feather
in his cap and would not do Cham
pion Willie any good. 1t is said that
Hoppe was not anxious to play the Jap
here, for he knows that Yamada is
going to crowd him for the title
However, Willie finally yielded under
the hypnotic spell of James and Nell
son Wheaton, owners of the Metro
politan Parlors, who are close friends
of the champion.
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Football is bigger this year than
ever and the demand to see the
classy games of the gridiron is ire
mendous. Not half of those who
would like to see the Princeton and
Yale, Princeton and Harvard, Yale
and Harvard and the Army and Navy
clash will be able to be accommo-
dated with tickets. Here 1t Is two
weeks before the Princeton Harvard
game at Princeton, and the demand
for seats is said to foreshadow n rec
ord crowd for that game. AS to the
PrincetonYale contest at New Ha-
ven, there isn't a chance to supply
those who have sent in requests, let
alone the usual large number of der
elicts who bob up at the last hour.
The Yale-Harvard game is going to
break all records, and no such de-
mands have ever been made to see
the Cadets and the Middies play as
there have been this year. With the
game in New York at the Polo
Grounds, the wonder is not so much
that the demand is so great, and the
struggle to get tickets is sure to re-
suit in bitter disappointment to Il
vast number who always attended
this society and sporting function. In
all, it is believed that in the neigh
borhood Of 10000 persons will en-
JOY football in the four big games
of the season, and as many more
would go, perhaps, if they could con-
Veniently secure accommodations.
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The probable outcome of the four
big games is a matter of keen dis
cussion day after day. The prospects,
just at present, are so favorable to
Harvard that the Crimson boys
should feel like saying, "Ishkabible!"
However certainties in big football
games are few and far between, and
now and then what looks like a moral
certainly turns out Co be complete
reversal of form. Harvard. very true,
6 playing beautiful football, and isn't
showing any tendency to stop her sue
cessful march along the line. And
all the more to her chances is the
fact that her two great rivals
Princeton and Yale-are not doing
anywhere near as well as expected.
Princeton has suffered defeat and
J ale has been tied in battle while
Harvard has made all her opponents
-ook like no-accounts. The Army
and Navy are showing about equal
strength with the Navy, seemingly,
the better team. Still, no matter
what the outlook. what the prospects,
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