The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-05
LEADING SIX
CUE EXPERTS
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SEEK HONORS
Have Been Selected by Car.F,a
Analysis to Play for Hopes
Title.

Chicago, Nov. Six Of a..
worlds leading 1872 balkline bf1Iiss9
players, representing three nation
! Will compete in the first intern
t1onal championship tourname,t
staged in Is years a week r.
Monday when Willie Home ~
present title holder, will defend NJ,
title here in a tournament contir.
/ ing for eight days.
The contestants will he Ho,,,
the champion; Edouard Horemap,
the Belgian; Roger Cont M
French champion; WeIker CocbrsS.
Young Jake Schaffer. son of ~
famous wizard; Ora Moruingstss
and George Sutton.
Total purses aggregatiug Sc ia
have been offered as prizes ri
this amount, $4,000 Will be awan5s5
TO the winner. To the runner-un
$1,000 will be given. and prizes n
81 1000, $3.50 and $3.50 will be award,
ed those finishing third. fourth ami
fifth.
Games in the tournament VIII
consist of 400 points each unless
in the event of 4 tie for first place
in which case 500 points will Ia
played to determine the winner
Three matches a day Will be Ii,
program until a round robin in
which each of the players meets
every other player is finished,
The six who will play for Will,
Hopes crown have been select
ed by tournament committee after
a thorough study of the record Of
the many entrants in tournament
and exhibition play over a long
period OF years. Four of the plat
erS are Americans. Two of then
Welker Cochran and Jake Schafer.
are youngsters who have held thei.
places in the cue hall of fame sincs
they were in their teens.
EdOuard Horemans, the BeIgisa
contender, is well known to tie
American public since his exhih-
ton tour of the states last yen.
He enjoys the faculty of occasion
ally turning a 400 point game n
one inning and has a series of high
runs which compare faVorabIy witt
the best ever made in the 132
game.
Roger Cont is the dark hors
of the tournament. He is maxim.
his first trip to America and has
been until recently practicing En-
tirely in private. He has a rec
ord for playing which in Frame
attracted such attention that final
ly his fame reached this county
and won him a place in this tour
ney.
Like foreman, Cont played On
higher tables than are used ID /
while the balls used in T
France are one-sixteenth of an inch
greater in diameter than those en-
ployed in official tournaments herr.
His marks, playing under French
conditions. are comparable to those
made by the famous Maurice Wig
laux, the Partisan from whom WI
lie Hoppe wrested the title in 1906.
On three occasions COchrane has
come within an ace Of capturing
honors from Hoppe During the
last year he has shown so much
that he is looked UJ0l
as one of the leading Contenders.
Cochrane has victories over HOre-
mans, Schaeffer and MOrningstar
20 his credit. In Detroit he took
} 900 point match form HOremaBs
by a lead of 80 points. Horemans
.ook the second game of 1000 points
by 1874 point lead Cochrane took
/ $500 point match from Schaefer
y more than 500 points. In New
York he led $50 points out Of 2,4@
md in Brooklyn he won q 1,20O
point game by 100 markers. The
)nly match he lost to Schaefer was
n Chicago, where the latter led 1853
points in an 1900 point match. HIS
'ecords in a tour with M0Tningstas 4
show even greater possibilities.
Hoppe is q fav0rite with many /
If the fans. probably because they ]
are familiar with his playing i
through Is years OF exhibition tours
n which be has made nearly every 4
own in the country.
Cochrane. Schaafer and Cont are
till in their early tWeHties Hore-
mans is year younger than
Hoppe, who is "a