The New York herald., 1922-09-03
1872 TOURNAMENT
WILL START NOV. 1S
Games Will Be 500 Points and
Played at the Pennsyl-
vania Hotel.

The projected billiard tournament for
the championship of the world at 1872
balkline has reached definite stage II
will be held at the Pennsylvania Hotel.
beginning Monday. November 13. and
lasting eight days. This is authentic.
Speaking of the conditions thus far de-
termined. Charles r. Miller. vice-presi-
dent of the Brunswick -Balke-C Coliender
Company, which is promoting the event,
said:
THE games will be 500 points. Ono
game VIII be played on the opening
night. For the next five days two will
be played, one each afternoon and one
each night. A similar schedule for Mon
day and Tuesday of the second week will
complete fifteen games, which will be
required If six players compete. There
may be more than six contestants but
doubt IL there will. AS originally planned
the tournament would be limited to six
players and six days. That plan was
abandoned. 1t would involve the playing
of three games, one in the morning, one
In the afternoon and one In the evening
of each of the last five days. Such a
program would be boresome to the
public and unfair to the players 1t would
have every player in action every day
for five days. None would have a rest.
Exactly what will be the program will
not be decided until after the arrival
from Europe OF our president. B. e.
Bensinger. He Is on board the Aquitania
and should be here Friday or Saturday.
Conditions and prizes for the tourna-
ment may be announced next Sunday.
They may. however, be delayed another
week"
Erich Hagenlocher, the German bill
lard expert. who was in New York and
vicinity from January / to May s, was
a passenger on the Swedish-American
steamship Stockholm, which on Monday
morning arrived from Gothenburg. His
wife. whom he married in Berlin--July
81. came with him. During his pre-
vious visit he took out first naturaiiza
tion papers and 1t is probable he Is
here to stay. That he will be an entran.
in the y balkline tournament for the
championship of the world. to be held
in November, Is assured.
Had he been able to. obtain passage
from Hamburg or Bremen he would
have been here earlier. Reservations
on steamships leaving German ports TO,
the United States were not obtainabl.
Every accommodation S uch steamers
provided was engaged and hundreds
were or waiting lists. Tourists who had
seen Austria and Germany and vera
homesick were largely responsible for
those conditions. Speaking Of the ex-'
perience he had with relation to EN-
barking Hagenlocher said: From Ber-
lin to Hamburg is four or five hours.
From Berlin to Gothenburg is two days.
To get here before September l had to
first make trip from Berlin to Sweden.
But we had a pleasant voyage-tcr
days on the water and only three days
rough.
While here last April Hagenlocher
demonstrated that he was an artist of
extraordinary skill. In game of 1000
points against Albert @. Cutler. played
at Maurice Daly's, he won by more than
1000 points, ran SS5 and averaged So.
Although Cutler played n remarkable
game in which he averaged 36, he was
completely overwhelmed. A week later,
at the Strand Academy. Welker Coch-
ran opposed the German In a contest
of 2.40O. Cochran began with expressed
confidence yet was beaten AL points
by an average of AZ.