The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-17
HOPPE DEFENDS HIS
TITLE AGAINST JAP,
Koii Yamada Will Endeavor to
Take III Emblem in Match
at Boston This Week.
DE ORC OPPOSES SLOsSON

william +. Hoppe will defend tho al
hal, line billiard championship against
knu yamada at Boston Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday nights. They will
,i,, $500 points for a purse Of $500
In addition TO the title at that style q
billiards.
Hoppe won the al emblem In the
tournament held at the Hotel Astor.
AnriI 20 to Is last year. Under the con-
ditions governing 1t he Is required to
defend 1t against all challengerv for one
wear. lie held the emblem for 364 days
without having been challenged. Had
he held Il one more day without having
heen called upon to defend II he would
have acquired ownership and II would
have become an addition to n 1871 and
,yo 1872 trophies. which are among his
assets. Yamada's challenge extended
the life OF the championship.
Had Yamada been insistent. the cham
mon would have had to play in not less
than twenty or more than thirty days
from April 26. Hoppe. however. persuaded
the Jap TO defer the match until fall
and make the affair a contest OF three
nights. lnasmuch az there was no pos
sib.lity Of another challenge, the donors
al IL lDltE Z pttNe nv
nent The championship rules provide
that matches for the emblem must be
at least 500 points. Principals. how
ever. NAV agree TO extend the number
Of points.
n Hoppe wins the coming match. the
emblem no longer will be a medium OF
a. mpetition. Should Yamada prove the
winner the championship will be re-
WED for another year.
William b. Huey of Chicago. who won
TN, three cushion championship by de-
feating George W. Moore In a challenge
match played at the Music Hall Of the
New York Theatre Building September
-. 90 and 80. has accepted the chal-
lence to the winner OF that event issued
By Alfredo DE Orc. That Huey will
name Chicago az the city in which he
viii defend his title is certain. He may
ttll upon De ORC to play as early az
October &c but cannot delay meeting
Inn beyond November 5.
In "A five nights contest OF $50 points
az Doyle's, with George +. Slosson as
an opponent. De ORC will undergo q
period Of preparation this week that may
prove valuable.
Entries for the handicap 1872 balk-
Inc armament to be held at the Music
Hall of the New York Theatre Build
ing November - 30 %. inclusive. will
close Wednesday OF this week. Hoppe
already has entered. That sutton and
Namada will be among the other en-
rants is said to be assured.
It is barely possible that Adioran.
the Hungarian expert. nay be one Of
The participants in the tournament. When
the great European war began he left
Paris. where he had been playing In
an academy. and went TO Spain. Re
Gently he has written to Sutton that
he would like to come TO the United
States and would do 40 II there were
any prospects OF activity in professional
billiards. Answering promptly. Sutton
urged him to come and enter In the
handicap.
Although about 60 years of age. Ad-
iorlu is said to have improved In the
last 'hree years more than any other
billiard player in the world. A man who
watched him perform in Paris says
There is very little difference. IL any.
between him and Cassignol. I consider
MIN Il better tournament or match player
than Cassignol, who. although in my
opinion the most artistic and finished
billiard expert in rhe world. is too i'm
reasonable and emotional to be sue
ecs,ful in public competitions. He at
',mp'S absolute perfection on every
stroke aud failure to realize IT discon-
crr,s him. II there is any player who
,au hold Hoppe level in public billiards.
Adjoran is the man
Jacob klinger. the Austrian amateur
now IA New York. has received informa-
ton from a Paris correspondent that
ArtuS. the French amateur. was killed
in an engagement in Belgium and that
FtrpuN, another great amateur. was
wounded severely.
Playing under the name Of Blanc,
Ar'IS finished second 10 Alfred Mortier
'r she international tournament held al
patls in April. 1917. As an exposition
o. skin that event was the greatest
amateur billiard event ever held In the
world. j. Ferdinand Poggenburg. who
represented America. made the second
highest grand average n finished
eighth among ten contestants. II was
against the I.iederkranz champion tina,
Morticr finished with a run OF 17s, which
Is the amateur record at 1872. That
feat was accomplished when Poggen'
burg. who had made run Of liz ant
1875, had a total of asa and with ~ Il