New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-05
HOPPE PLANNING
FOR INMAN MATCH
Billiard Champion Will
Work Steadily on Eng
lish Style of Table.
HIS WEAKNESS is
IN USE OF BRIDGE
Foreign Title Holder to Reach
Here July 17-May Go
TO Montreal.

Early this week William F. Hoppe,
worlds champion at all styles of balk-
line billiards, will begin practice at the
English game.
Il expect" he said "to work at IT
five or six hours a day I'VE days each
week until my first game with lnman.
"Of course, ! will keep IN stroke at
balklne. That will be easy. What
bothers me now is whether or not !
will have 10 get long cues for the Eng
lish game. / don't want TO use
bridge, or rest, as the English call u,
for | am not much of a player with
a bridge. | suppose all the E1glishmen
use their rests well. | wish ! could
play as well as De ORC or Slosson with
a bridge"
Melbourne Inman. champion OF Eng
lish billiards, will board the Aqui-
tania at Fishguard next Saturday and
Will be due in New York on July L..
Whether he will remain here or go 10
Montreal TO practise for his matches
with Hoppe Will be determined after
his arrival That he will play with
Leonard Howison in Montreal for a
couple of weeks Is quite likely.
r. y. Benjamin, his representative
in this country, expresses 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 Howlson.
In his opinion Imam is not special
ist. He is versatile at the English
game. and will not be different at the
American game. By playing with diff
ferent American experts, whose meth
DDS vary, he would learn a little from
each
That the English champion ~ striv-
ing to acquire fair degree Of pro-
ficency at the American game is evil
dent from the fact that Tor over
month he has been applying himself to
balkline on a standard carrom table sent
from Paris TO London for his use.
Pobert Topping, lnman's steadfast
/ hacker, is quoted as saying:
The Americans are said 10 consider
Hoppe a sure winner. Well. II they
lay me reasonable odds ! will wager
80 900 that he will not win
Koji Yamada, the Japanese expert,
reached Berlin on June 6, and the next
day began an engagement at the Cafe
Equitable with John Bruno, champion
Of Austria, as an opponent. berlin
papers say that the games with bruno
will enable German dcvotees OF bill
lizards to gauge the improvement made
by Yamada during his two years So
iourn in the United States. They also
amplfy the fact that Yamada de-
feated Hoppe in the 1872 tournament Of
1912, and came near performing a sim
+ liar feat IN the al tournament in
APRIL, this year.
An effort is being made TO arrange
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Mace during Yamadas stay in Europe
The promoters tried TO induce Hoppe
10 enter, and were informed that the
crampion Of the world could not par
ticiuate because he would have TO de-
vote himself 20 preparation for the
series Of matches at the English and
halkline billiards arranged with In
man.
The proposition submitted was TO
have Cure and Cassignol, OF PARIS,
compete against Yamada and Hoppe.
II a desirable fourth entrant can pc
obtained the tournament will be held.
The German Amateur Billiard
League, organized in April, 1911, Is
now a substantial and influential Dody
Its membership includes clubs at ber-
lin. Cologne, Stuttgart, Hamburg,
Mannheimer, Leipzig and Hanover, and
~
many prominent individuals IN diner
cnt parts OF the German Empire. The
headouarters Of the league IS in Ber'
lin. ard the executive officers are mem.
bers OF the German Billiard Club, OF
that city.
Accredited representatives are Gap,
tain Kubel, Berlin; Sir Won bracnel
and Robert Court, Cologne; Emil LIN
senmaver- Hebron, Stuttgart; Hell
muth Kux, Hamburg; Albert ScnencH'
Mannheim; Albert Poensgen, Dussel-
dorf. and DR.. Simon, Frandort-oh-
Main. III,
The officials are: Captain Rubei.
chairman: Gustav Braunbeck, wee
chairman: Attorney Beneke secretary
and Robert Warshaur, treasurer. In
addition to promoting and controliing
amateur billiards in Germany me OF
Plantation may become active with re
Iation TO international events. herr
poensgen. who is banker and mem
ber of very wealthy family, came 70
New York in 1910 and played IN the
tournament for the international eham-
njonship, held at the Liederkranz'
February TO is.
Tiny Pekes Reach Broadoak.