Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-09
MASTERS OF TWO
BILLIARDSTYLES
I0PLAY MATCHES
ASSOCIATED Pressl

NEW YORK, Sept I.-Bllllard con-
tests between experts always attract
attention the world over. but follow
ers Of the game in the United States
and Canada will be afforded an unus-
al opportunity within the next two
months of Witnessing the acknowledge
ed professional masters of the English
and American styles in an interna-
tional series of matches, the games in
which will be played alternately on
English and American tables. Willie
hoppe of New York, the worlds cham
pion balk line player will cross cues
with Melbourne Inman of England,
who is the worlds best cue-wielder
at the English game of winning and
losing hazard"
The series calls for $4,000 points up,
divided equally between two styles Of
billiards and three distinct matches
will be played. The first of these.
consisting of 5000 points, will he de-
cided in New York, followed by an
other, under similar conditions, in
Chicago and later on a third match
of 10000 points will be played during
a tour Of the leading cities of Canada.
Each match will be for $1,000 side
and a winning and losing share of the
gate receipts. The rules governing
the American games will be 1872 inch
balk line. one shot in anchor while
the spot" and anchor" shots will
be barred in all the contests on the
big English table The New York Sc
ries will begin September % and con.
clude October 3, and the Chicago
dates are from October II to II inclu-
sive. The Canadian dates and places
of meeting will be arranged later on.
Both men have been practising
earnestly for some months, each of
course paying great deal of attention
to his opponents style of game. and
the matches should afford billiard Low.
ers splendid opportunities for inter-
esting comparisons. Twenty-one
years ago, May 90 TO June 2, 1898, the
late Frank c. Ives, the Michigan cue
wonder, who was known as the Ma
poleon of French ands American bill
lizards. played a series of three match
es with John Roberts, Jr., the English
billiard champion, the first in Lon
don, England, the other two in Chi
eago and New York, at the English.
style exclusively. Ives won the Lon
don match 5000 to 1921, mainly
through the anchor" shot with two
object balls "choked' in the mouth of
a corner pocket This was trick
which Ives had learned from his tu-
tor at the American game, the late
Jake Schaefer of Chicago, and having
once secured this position" Ives
could have continued to click on car
ons interniinably The English cham
pion was prevented, under the condi-.
lions Of the match from playing the
spot" stroke more than once, because
he could keep counting from that po-
sition almost as continuously as Ives
did with the anchor nurse"
At Chicago the following Septem-
Der, Ives defeated Roberts again, by a
score of 5000 to 1903 under similar
conditions but two weeks later they
met in New York In a match Of 10000
points up, with the "spot" and IAN
Choir" barred, and under these chang
ed conditions Roberts won after a
most interesting weeks play by TO-
900 to 8,738. During this match Ives
surprised Roberts and all the other
experts at his deftness and the srail'
nurse in which, by diligent practice,
he had mastered the art of turning
corners and passing the side pockets
without pocketing a ball. In one
game with Roberts far in the lead,
Ives made three runs Of 651, SIS and
3a5, a total of 1851 points at this style
of play and the following day made
another run of $50. On the final day
Of the match, although Roberts was
/ .001 points in the lead, the English
champion declared that he did NOT
feel that he had safe margin as
Ives was likely to run out the game
with his wonderful rail- work but
Ives was unable to secure his fayorite
position on that day and Roberts won
handily. e.,....
The conditions Of these coming Sc
ries are unique as each man will have
the opportunity of pulling up at his
own style should his opponents home
game become too strong and If Hoppe
can develop the rail- nurse to any
degree of efficiency his well known
ability at balk line play should give
him splendid chance of winning the
larger share of the money prizes. !