The New York herald., 1922-05-21
FRENCH PLAYER Is
TO MEET SCHAEFER
Cont Practicing in Paris for
Championship Match
in Fall.
BY THOMAS J. GALLAGHER.

Having defeated Hoppe and Cochran.
who made futile efforts to wrest his
championship from him, Jacob Schaefer
will not be called on to again defend
his title before November.
The next aspirant for the worlds
championship at IS % balkline will be
Roger Coati. the 21-year-old French
champion. who issued a challenge to the
winner OF the Schaefer-C Cochran event.
Cont, whose home is in Pau, in the
south of France. is practicing in the
Olympic Academy, Paris.
During his experience in the United
States last winter he improved his game
in several respects. This summer in
Paris he hopes to make further progress.
The next time Schaefer prepares for a
billiard match he will probably appre-
ciate that playing golf does not fit one
for severe test at billiards.
Maurice Days Views.
Maurice Days views on this subject
are:
'I don't care who the billiard player
is. in order to keep up his game he must
practice diligently. Moderate physical
exercise Is helpful to billiard player,
but 1t is not SO important as exercise
with cue.
Look at what Schaefer's father, Slos-
son. Ives and Vignaux did. They prac-
ticed billiards and accomplished results.
Ives was the most Industrious practice
player I ever knew. When he found
himself in poor stroke he played alone
for hours. Slosson was another player
who in good practice was able to win
games from Schaefer and Ives, and>ln
poor stroke was pitiful.
"Out of stroke, he went to Paris to
play in 1S q tournaments and didn't win
a game. He came back. practiced, and
in 1906 won the first 1872 tournament
ever held in this country. Two later ex-
amples Of the results of practice are
Hoppe and Horemans.
Hoppe, who always kept in good
physical condition, never overlooked the
fact that billiards was his profession.
He rarely neglected practice. Horemans
ought to beat anybody. He practices
more hours than any other player"
A Safety Game.
Julius Bake. who arrived from Chi
cago Friday and will on Wednesday en-
saw the first session of the Schaefer-
Cochran match, of which he remarked:
''At the outset 1t was an exhibition of
intense safety tactics. Schaefer had
declared that he could make any shot
the anybody could make, in fact any
possible shot. When Cochran heard
that in my hearing he remarked.
III show him some he can't make
He did. He played safety to the limit.
and effectively. Jake, who was way
off stroke. kept trying and missing. AT
the same time he had due regard for
| safety. The consequence was the scor-
ing was generally slow and the playing
far below what was expected"
Edouard Horemans, the sensational
Belgian billiard expert, who is now
playing better than ever before, a fact
that was emphasized when on April %,
at the Rational Recreation. opposed by
Edward w. Gardner. he ran s1S at IS q
balkline. is anxious to match himself
at 1871 against every first class cue
artist, excepting the German champion,
Erich Hagenlacher.
Recently he went to Canada. Before
going he said. 'T wish THE New YORK
HERALD to announce that / will play
Hoppe. Schaefer. Cochran. Cont.
Morningstar or sutton matches at IS i
for $500 a side"
New Billiard Room.
Newark is to have the largest billiard
room in the State or New Jersey. 1t
will be situated on Broad street. about
100 feet from Market. will be equipped
with fifty-two tables and will open
about August /. 1t will be operated by
the Steel Billiard Company, of which
Edward Steel is president. The COM
pany owns the building in which the
tables will be located.