New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
SUTTON IS PLAYING
GREAT BILLIARDS
Reported in Fine Form for
Match with Hoppe at
1872 BaIkline.
PLANS EXHIBITION
PRACTICE SERIES
Champion Is Getting in Trim on
Strange Tables-Other
Matches.

George sutton will prepare for his
match with William Hoppe for the is
balkline championship by series OF ex-
hibition games in which CALVIN Deina-
rest will be his partner. The hrst three
DAYS of this week the pair VIII play AT
the Board of Trade rooms, indianapolis.
Thence they will start East, making stops
at Cincinnati. Pittsburgh and Phlla-
delphia.
They are scheduled to arrive III Ne"
York Sunday. January .. The following
day they will begin weeks practice
at Maurice Days. Sutton's friends IN
Chicago express pleasure over the tact
that he has departed from his customary
method of practising alone and declded
to work against "A live and skiliul OPP
ponent. All reports from Chicago say
the rotund expert is playing billiards
that should again make him champion.
1t is. however. concluded that the vital
question relative to his appearance at
the Hotel Aston. February ). IS; What
Will he do against Hoppe?
The champion filled several engage
ments in the state Of New York last
week and then journey TO st. LOUIS
where he will play with Charley Peter
son for five nights. He will return To
New York about January -. On January
q he will play Hoii Yamada at the Cres-
cent Athletic Club. Brooklyn Two days
afterward he and the Oriental will eX-
hibit at Providence, y. /. Asked II tray
cling about and playing on different
tables might not be injurious. he re-
piled: II prefer it and believe it II the
best way TO prepare for a match. There
is always more or less difference between
practice table and a new table set Up
for match. A PLAYER gets used to
practice table. usually plays well on II,
and rarely does equally well with a
strange equipment in a hall
Fred Eames. of Denver. will be Al
fredo De Oro's next opponent for the
Jordan Lambert three-cushion carrom
trophy The match will probably be
PLAYED i'm New York early in March.
Four years ago Eames came East. and
in a match played a. McGraw's. Jan
uary TO- II and H. took the trophy from
DE orc Subsequently Eames lost the
trophy TO Thomas Hueston, from whom
De orc recovered temporary possession
OF IT,,
Charles Common. of Philadelphia. who
competed in the Glass b 1872 balkline
tournament of the National Association
OF Amateur Billiard Players. held at
Maurice Days last week. is likely TO de-
velop into Class A performer. lie has
good method supported by CORE
spending stroke and is sure TO improve
with practice and experience.
Reviewing what he terms IA record
half season" of billiards i'm England
"Hanard." in Sporting Life" London,
says
THE great indoor game has never
known such time as the last four months
have unfolded. Quite feature has been
the splendid support accorded the leading
matches. which in turn suggests that the
game has not yet reached the apex OF
its popularity And not the least pleas
ing phase OF this support has been its
cosmopoitanism. Cabinet ministers and
the titled classes have mixed freely with
the clerk. the engineer the soldier. the
sailor and other of the foatsam and let
sam that go toward the makeup OF So
ciety as II exists to-day Coal black men
and copper colored ones. too. have sat
side by side with members Of the Japa-
nese and Chinese colonies, while occa-
sionaly Russian and German have sat
interested I'm the play OF our leading ex-
ponents OF this fascinating game In no
sport or pastme does one see such
varied and interesting crowd as at a big
billiard match.
And Tom Newman. this mere boy The
will not be twenty until next March,, has
come so much TO the front OF late by
sheer merit and talent that he has abso-
lutely compelled followers Of the game
10 talk OF him. And from talking to see
ing is the merest transitory stage With
the sole exception OF George Gray, the
marvellous Australian. no player has
created the interest that Newman has
dur.ug the last quarter OF the ceatury.