New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03
NEW YORK MAY
WITNESS THREE
CUSHION MATCH
Moore and De Orc Have Not Yet
Selected Scene of Cham
piOnship Battle

ship between George W. Moore, cham
pon, and Alfredo de ORC, challenger,
will take place in New York, no definite
arrangement as to where it will be
held has been made.
The game must be played between
the 9Th and 10th of this month, and
Moore has until Saturday to name
when and where he will play. Mean
while the champion is practising at
Thum's and the Brunswick Bake Col-
lender Company's wareroom and de Orc
is preparing at Tim Flynn's. The win
ner will have to defend the emblem
against Charles McCourt, who is now
located in Cleveland.
Two other players who have chal-
lenged for the championship trophy
are Horace B. Lean. o. Detroit, and
Robert Cannefax. of 81. Louis. Came
fax is a young and brilliant executant,
whose skill and confidence make him
a dangerous opponent in even cham
pionship society. On November Il, at
st. Louis. playing against McCourt, he
scored fifty points in forty-two innings
Allowing the limit of forty days be-
tween matches, McCourt will have MS
chance about February |, and the
games in which Lean and Cannefax
may respectively figure will be due
April 10 and May y.
Frank Sherman and Morris Cafritz,
Of Washington, wished to have Frank
Taberski and Edward ]. Ralph play
their match for the pocket billiard
championship in the District of Colum-
bia, and to that end made Taberski n
liberal offer. Taberski declined for the
reason that he felt obligated 20 play in
his home city. Schenectady, where he IS
managing two billiard rooms one for
the public, the other for club. The
response peeved some of Washlngton's
billiard enthusiasts. one OF whom init
mated that Tabersh had Overlooked
the best bet Of his life
BEGINNING tomorrow night Leonard
Howison and Joseph Mayer will play
five nights contest of 800 points at
Maurice Days. They will play 800
points each night.
Melbourne lnman, champion of Eng
lish billiards, and Thomas Reece are
performing quite evenly In the series
OF matches which they have contracted
to play this season. They are scheduled
to compete in ten games, IN each or
which Inman is 70 play $4,000 points
against 1900 by Reece. At the latest
advices from England they had finished
six games, Of which each had won
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mated on November II, Reese won by
tt8 on an even game. Inman's total
was 1882. During the final session
Reece scored 1868 and Inman 1876.
At Thurston's Grand Hall, London,
from October 80 to November H.,
Claude Falkiner and Thomas Newman
engaged in match of $4,000 points, IN
which Falkiner received start of l,OOo.
When the final days play began the
scores stood: Falkiner, 1869; Newman,
1856. The final scores were lo,OOO
to 15,804 in favor of Falkiner. At one
stage Falkiner enjoyed a lead of nearly
5000.
At meeting of the Billiard Associa
ton. which controls amateur billiards
in Great Britain and Ireland, held IN
London, November Il, il was decided
that the amateur championship OF the
United Kingdom should not be held IN
1917. This action was taken because
no tournament will be held in Scotland
nor is one likely to be held IN Wales
while the respective champions OF those
sections. Lieutenant A. Croneen and
Driver Cable, are in army service IN
France.
The following addendum to Rule
Of the rule of billiards, relating TO the
spotting of the red ball after it has
been pocketed from the same spot
twice in consecutive strokes, was car
ried:
For the purpose of this rule the red
ball shall not be considered 70 be on
the billiard spot unless it has been
spotted by the marker"
At Melbourne, Australia, in a match
Of $4,000 points, ended November IA,
Fred Lindrum defeated George Gray by
l,046 points.
A noteworthy incident Of the recent
national election was that in Chicago
two members of the local Bowling and
billiard Protective Association were re-
elected as municipal judges. They were
John II. Newcomer and Harry +. Oolan.
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