The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-10
OSBORNE TO
 TAKE PART
 IN BIG MEET
Local Billiard Star Will Appear In New YOrk-Ivory
 Pointers.

Henry OSDOTnef, ule pocket DllnaTQ crack from the Algonquin club of this city, will take part in the an- nual National Pocket Billiard cham pionshtp tournament that will get un- der way in New York tonight. Os- borne, according to New York dis patches, Is the only player in the tournament who is not a New York CT.
 Two years ago Osborne took part in a national tournament and finished fourth. In the present series the local star will not play until Wednes- day night when he tackles Charley Shongood. His showing will bear close watching by his many friends here.
 What threatens to cast into naught the efforts of energetic billiards to elevate the popular indoor sports is shaping up into a bitter wrangle be- tween the National Association of Amateur Billiard Players, the oldest organization of its kind on this con tinent, and the American Amateur Billiard Association. The parent organization has already sent broad cast a. circular forbidding its mem DeTS u pdI t1ClpdIc HI SLAAJ with adherents of the new associa- ton, and the latter has instructed room-keepers here and in other cities not to house any events of the old body.
 An example of the bitterness Of tho wrangIe is herewith given: As the dispute progressed the A. A. B. A. ar ranged for a three-cushion tourna- ment for the national amateur cham pionship, the first event of its kind In America. The games are now being played in the borough of Manhattan New York. Instantly the officials oT the N. A. A. B. P. arranged a three cushion tournament for the State championship and it is now in pro- gress in Brooklyn parlors.
 So spirited has become the rivalry between the two associations that Hal Coleman, secretary of the A. A. B. A., has issued a challenge for an inter association match. If such a match were arranged, and it is probable that, one will be arranged, 1t would bring some of the best amateur play CTS in the country together.
 In addition to having defeated all the amateur pocket billiard players in the country and some of the profes- sionals, J. Howard Shoemaker has become so proficient in snooker pool that he is now being referred to as the "snooker king"
 It is idle for anybody to comment on the showing of Albert Cutler against welker Cochran in their three matches before Bridgeport clubs last week. The fact is that the matches were nothing more than ex- hibition affairs and neither one strained himself to defeat the other. As a matter of fact Cutler and Co., chran have organized team and will travel the Keith's vaudeville cir cult. They secured their tryout in a Harlem, New York, house several weeks ago and made good. They will get $500 for their act.
 Ralph Green1eaf, chief challenger of Frank Taberski, the champion at pocket billiards, will this week start on a tour of the country. Arrange ments are being made to bring him here for a series of matches against the States best players Before start ing, however, he will meet Cowboy Weston in New York tomorrow night. Dave McAnd1esx, who was the run ner-up to Corwin Huston in last years class A tournament of the Ma tionaI Association of Amateur Billiard Players, looks like winner in the present competition. He has an ad- vantage over Huston because Of the champion dropping a game early in the tourney.
 The tournament being held under the auspices of the American Chain Company has been in progress for about a week and will be resumed at the American Chain A. A. rooms to- night. Those engaged in the tourney are Jim Kelly, Harry Alpaugh, Ben- ny White, Sam Aarons, Wallace Way erly Lewis, John Colligan and Chacko.
 MORSE DOCKS WIN.