The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05
HOPPE WILL BEGIN TO
LEARN ENGLISH GAME
starts Practice This Week for
His Matches With Champion
Melbourne Inman.
BRIDGE PROBLEM TO HIM
Wonders Whether He Will
Have to Use Long Cues-Ri-
val TO Sail Saturday.

Early this week William r. Home.
worlds champion at all STYLES OF balk
line billiards. will begin practice at the
English game. 81 expect" said he. so
work AZ it five or six hours a dav five
days each week until my first game with
lnman. Saturdays and Sundays I will
be out or town. OF course ! will keen in
stroke AT bilk line. That will be easy
"nat bothers ME now IL whether I will
nave 20 get long cues for the English
game ! don't want TO use bridge or
n rest as the English call It. for I am not
much OF player with a bridge. I sup
pose all the Englishmen use their rests
! wen. wish ! could play as we'll as
DO ORC or Slosson won a bridge"
| melbourne lnman, champion of Eng
l'sh billiards. will board the Aquitania
at Flshsuard next Saturday and will be
duc in New York on July II. Whether
| no VIII remain here or go 10 Montreal to
practise for his matches with Hopp. will
! be determined after his arrival That he
| VIII play with Leonard Howison in Mon
treal for a couple of weeks is quite likely
Il. Il. Benjamin, his Representative in
TINS country, expresses the belief that
the English champion can derive more
oenent from playing In New York and
! Philadelphia with Slosson, Cutler, Cline
ana Morningstar than from prolonged
practice with Howison. His view is:
inman is not specialist. He Is versa
tile at tho English game and will not be
different at the American game. By
playing with dinerens American experts
whose methods vary he will learn n little
from each"
That the English champion Is striving
to acquire fair degree of proficiency
at the American game is eviden; from the
applying himself to balk line on a stand |
ard carrom table sent from Paris to Lon !
don Tor his use. Robert Topping In
mans steadfnst hacker. Is quoted as saw
ing THE Americans are said to con /
slider Hoppe sure winner Well If they
VIII lay me reasonable odds I will wager |
10000 that he will not win"
koji famada, the Japanese EXPERT
arrived In Berlin June s. and the nex, .
day began an engagement at the Gaia
Equitable with John Bruno. champion
or Austria. as an opponent. Berlin .
papers say games with Bruno will enable
German devotees OF billiards to gauge
tho Improvement made by Yamada dur
ing MS two years sojourn in the United
states. They also amplify the fact tina,
famada defeated Hoppe in the 1879
tournament Of 1912 and came near per-
forming a similar feat in the l4,I t,,rna
ment in April this year.
An effort Is being made TO arrange an
IL y tournament at Brussels to take place
during famada's stay in Europe The
promoters tried to Induce Hoppe TO enter
and were informed that the champion OF
tho world could not participate bocause
ne would have to devote himself to prepa-
ration for the series OF matches al the
English and balk line billiards arranged
with Melbourne Inman. the English
hampton The proposition submitted
was to have Cure and Cassignol OF Pari.
compete against Yamada and Hoppe. n
a desirable fourth entrant can be OBJ
aimed the tournament will be held
The German Amateur Billiard League,
organized in April, 1911, is now a sub
'tantial and influential body. Its mem
orTsh!p includes clubs OF Berlin, Cologne,
Stuttsart Hamburg Mannheimer. Leip-
SIC ana Hanover and many prominent
ndlrldu'is in different parts OF the Ger
van Empire The headquarters OF the
cague are in Berlin and the executive
Ulcers are members Of the German Bill
ard club Of that city.
Details OF the amateur billiard tourna-
ncnts held in Paris is April and MAY have
'cen received by the Brunswick Balke-
offender Company. The tournament for
ne championship OF France. which be-
IAN April Is. was won by Guy Only {
W. 'uS' NedsslI, teUtuu ana Heddeer, |
ompeted. The winner had never before h
'ayed In tournament and his assign .
nent TO the first category (Class Al and !
Us success were unprecedented surprises
lie is young man whose execution and !
readiness promise brilliant future ,
nevertheless he was fortunate. His best
un was 30. best single average ILL
nd his grand average S.72. Agassiz with
high run Of 81 and a best single aver
ge OF 1879, had a grand average of 8. 80. o
,enaud played the best Billiards OF the X
)urnament. lie scored high run OF 6
IA. single average OF 1879 and a 80
rand average of l2,ii W
In tournament for the CHAMPIONSHIP o,
{ the world France was represented bv
gassiz, Renaud. Reddeer and Leverrier. |,
Their participants were Sells and Rudels- q
eim. Belgians. The performances were !;
'r superior to those of the French tour i:
lment Y
Sells demonstrated skill that entitled
i'm TO be pronounced a worthy opponent
any amateur He averaged l4lS
sanst Remand, Is against Agasslz, Red tn
'er and Leverrier and 81 against Rudels- to
i'm, and made runs of so. IS, 81 o. on
6 and 1872 be
Five Tie at Fox Hills.