The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-12-07
Slosson in Tournaments
Forty-Five Years Apart
Veteran Who Just Met Coys Best at Hotel Astor Welded
Cue in First Three Ball Tourney in Tammany Hall in 1874
An Account of II

re advanced Only this need be said:
The games were short: the order
in which they were played was ad-
vantageous to ]. Dion and Vignaux,
and also to GARNER fsave with re-
spect to the first, the winning OF
which, however, was all the better
for that piayer); as the games pro-
crossed and solid work became neces-
szAry as the stronger players con-
fronted each other, the leaders Gear
nier, Fignaux and ]. Dion who had
not been beaten during the first six
days. exhibited weakness, Rudolph
and DAILY being the only ones to dts
play nerve and make Roadway. the
former excelIing in this respect. as
he had to play two of the leaders,
vignaux and J Dion. neither OF
whom had lost game before en-
counterinE him. while Daily had to
play but the unbeaten man. GARNER:
and finally. so indeterminate arc
tournaments. the summary will show
points would be badly beaten, ac~
cordinr to the record heretofore, by
players who have now gained II not
that players have attained to high
places who in long games of 500
equal places, then inferior ones.
'Cyri'Ie Dion did no playing worthy
of his fame, beating only Daniels and
merely because in that game Ru~
doiphe die hts worst playing of all.
AS for Rudolphe. who beat
U-bassy. vignaux. 4. Dion and
Daniels. he played like himself
again Yignaux and the elder Dion
only.
'~rhe tournament was wen man
aged and the attendance excellent.
As with the six met ropolitan ones
that preceded it, save the, one held
in the summer Of 1879: the fair sex
was we'll represented. Tammany
Hall being admirably adapted for
their accommodation. like the Cooper
institute and the Academy of Music.
vide the exhibition given at the IN
stitutc by Pierre Charme on April Ii.
1865. and the contests al the academy
between Dudley Kavanagh and will
liam Goidwait on January 20, 1863.
between Melvin Foster and JOSEPH,
Dion on December IS. 1858. and be-
tween Cy-rille Dion and A. r. Rudolphe
on December IS 1870
Fair Sex Encourages
THAT the attendance or ladies was
-
other is in one se7se attributable to
the fact that it was the first. other
than CT billiard event in which the
leading players OF the world were COM
pctitors
las they can be accommodated only
at heavy sacrifice in the office, their
uniform attendance at Tammonv Hall
suggests that the players are willing to
forego some portion Of their profits in
order to advance the game of which
they are the opponents. II Is not the
space the ladies occupy that Is so
costly at a billiard tournament. but
tho number Of masculines--so bet
tiers, but the majority smokers-who
are deferred from attending by the
presence Of the weaker sex.
1T is safe TO estimate that the plat
form At rorth side IF the hall with
its lowly freight made difference OF
at least $1,000 in the net receipt, thus
reducing the prize money to an ap-
preciable extent. let the players have
credit for unseif1shnAss as we'll as for
galiantry.
The following table completes the
record. The scores in black type show
the games each player has won. while
the figures preceding the heavy ones
indicate tho number OF the game. The
best run and the average accompany
each game while the best run II all OF
each player is included thus tf5s),
and this best winning average In mark
cd with star az eks for Joseph Dion.
or 1i.14>2Ss for Ubassv.
The columns running crossways
help the more readily to show the
scores made by the players who head
them while t.ontendfnG with the play
ers who Sead the columns running
icngthwtse. Thus 1t vii be seen that
GARNER. whose best run was ts3),
and best winning Gvsrage 1s.I3-3Gs
(twsce). beat everybody but vIgnaux
and DAILY; and that Daniels. whose beat
run was (lSl, but who has no winning
average (hia beN average be1nG
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