The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
HOPPE OFFERS ODDS
TO TTTLESEEKERS
Willing to Play 10000 Points
Against $500 for Schacfcr
or Cochran.
READY WHEN TOUR ENDS
Champion De Orc Is Over
whelmed by Public Rcccp-
ton and Gift.

William Hoppe. tho balk line cham
pion. who now is on tour with George
Sutton. denies with vehemence that he
has avoided Jake Schaefer or Wellter
Cochran because of fear as to the
outcome OF games with those young
sters. Hoppe declares that he has re-
fused TO meet the challengcrs at the
present time solely because he is maxi
ing more money on his exhibition tour
than he could earn In a match or
tournament The champion promises
that as soon as his tour Is ended no
will be willing, even eager, to meet one
or both of the young gentlemen who
covet his title.
statement Of the champion with the as
sertion that the grand averages of tho
title holder are so much superior TO
those Of the challengers that they really
have little basis for asking for matches
The manager declares that II Schaefer
or Cochran Is insistent on a match
with the champion at the close OF bis
tour and will make IL worth whilo
financially he will play either Of them
a match on the basis OF 10000 points
for the champion and 1900 for thu
challenger.
The manager concludes with the asser-
ton that Hoppe now is at the top OF his
form as a player and that no one else
In the world has the remotest chance OF
taking the title away from him.
De Orc Receives Fob.
Alfredo De Orc. one OF the most re
markable figures in the billiard world.
is noted for icy GOODNESS at critical
points in close contests with the worries,
and he has been calm and .elf-coptained
1~f~ l1,,A Ia
mond studded fob symbolizing the e.
TEEN OF his thousands of friends was
handed to him at a complim entary ban
quet at the cafe Boulevard the Iron
nerve OF the man yielded and he was
unable to hide his emotion.
He explained that although he had
been before the public thirty-one years
as billiard player. 1t was the first time
he had been the recipient OF public
testimonial, and he was not accustomed
to that sort OF thing. He added that no
possessed a large collection of trophies
won on billiard tables all over tho world
but the Gift he had Just received would
have tho place OF honor as long al he
lived.
Doyle Praises Champion.
Jack Doyle, the toastmaster, in Intro
ducng the guest Of honor, declared h.
being dead 1000 years and was CON
fronted by changed conditions in 1913.
Newsboys were distributing small cylin-
drlcal Photographic Instruments that
had replaced newspapers. and III"
subscribers merely pressed button
and learned all the latest news. The
first item was 10 the effect that Mary
Smith had just been elected President OF
the United States and that II had bean
500 years since a male had been In the
White House.
Other items OF interest were TO The
effect that the League OF Nations
scheme was nearing completion, but was
still opposed by the League Against a
League OF Nations. Also that German
. still was paying indemnity TO the allied
goyernments.
But" said Doyle, the most inpor
tant news heard was that Alfred D.
O-o had reta ned his three cushion titlN
by one point
3 Among the speakers was Wild HI
Donovan, who said that no baseball
pitcher had ever shown the nerve In the
pinches that De ORC showed in clos
games Of billiards
Hal Coleman. secretary OF the Ams1S
can Amaten' Billiard Association. spoAe
in behalf OF the amateurs.