The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Sells L. SISIIIfuI.

Sells demonstrated skill that entitled
him to be pronounced a worthy oppo-
nent Of any amateur and a real rival
Of Alfred Mortier. He averaged li4
against Renaud IS against Agassiz,
Reddeer and Leverrisr, and q against
Rudelsheim, and made runs Of 50, IS.
81. 80, I16 and 132. With the exception
OF the final game against Sells, Agassiz
played admirably, He scored a sensa-
tional victory over Renaud. At the end
OF eleven innings the score stood Renaud.
Us; Agassiz, IS. In the next twelve
innings Agassiz scored 3l5 points and
won BY margin of %.
Renaud was the most attractive per-
former in the tournament He was de-
scribed as a marvellous and captivating
exponent Of billiards.. of more class than
any Of his adversaries. One French au-
thority says OF him; IF he ever arrives
in dominating his nerves and emotions
as he dominates his runs, he will be
unbeatable" He ran 100, 123 and log, the
latter the record for the event ..-
Reddeer had a peculiar experience He
was beaten 80 points by Agassiz, scored
sgS against the 40 Of Rudelsheim and
was overcome by Sells and Renaud with
respective runs of 1l6 and 169
Early this week. William F. Hoppe,
worlds champion at all styles of balK-
line billiards. will begin practice at the
English game. Il expect" said he, Ito
work at it five or six hours day five
days each week until my first game with
Inman. Saturdays and Sundays I viii
be out Of town or course 1 will keep
in stroke at balkline. That will be easy.
What bothers me now is whether or not
I will have TO get long cues for the
English game. ! don't want TO use a
bridge, or a rest as the English call 1t,
for 1 am not much Of a player with d
bridge. suppose all the EnglishmenI
use their rests wen. wish could play
as well as De Ore or slosson with a
bridge.
Inmnn to Sail.
Melbourne Innasl, champion Of English
billiards, will board 1.-The AQuitaniA, at
Fishguard, next Saturday and viii be due
IN New York on the 18th. Whether he will
remain there or go to Montreal TO prac-
tice for his matches with Hoppe. win be
determined after his arrival That heI
viii play with Leonard Howison in Mon
trsai for couple OF weeks is quite likely
r. B. BENJAMIN, his representative in
this country. expressed the belief that
the English champion can derive more
benefit from playing in New York and
Philadelphia. with Slosson. Cutler, Cline, |
and Morningstar than from prolonged
practice with HoBisoR. His view is In
man is not a specialist. He is versatile |
different at the American game. By
playing with different American experts |
whose methods vary, he viii learn a 1T |
tie from each.
That the English champion is striving |
70 acquire a fair degree of proficiency |
at the American game, is evident from
the fact that for over a month he has /
been applying himself to balkline on q |
standard carom table sent from Paris 1
TO London for his use. Robert Topping
Inman's steadfaSt hacker. is quoted as l
saving: The Americans are said to
consider Hoppe sure winner. Well If I
they will lay me reasonable odds will
wager $1,000 that he viii not win"
Koji Yamada. the Japanese expert, ar
rived in Berlin, June s. and the next day
began an engagement at the Cafe Equit-
able with John Bruno champion Of AUS
tria, as an opponent Berlin papers say
games with Bruno will enable German
devotees of billiards to gauge the inn
proyement made by Yamada during his
two years sojourn in the United States i
They also ampIify the fact that Yamada
defeated Hoppe in the 49, tournament of
Isf2 and came near performing a similar
feat in the 1A1 tournament in April. this
To Arrange Tourney.
An effort is being made to arrange an
iG2 tournament at Brussels to take place
during Yamada's stay in Europe The I
promoters tried TO induce Hoppe 70 enter
and were informed that the champion OF
The world could not participate because
he would have 20 devote himself to prep Il
arstion for the series OF matches at the Il
English and balkline billiards arranged
with Melbourne Inman. the English
champion. The proposition submitted
was 70 have Cure and CassienoL OF Paris,
compete against Yamada and Hoppe III