The Washington times., 1926-11-03
HAMPTON
PASSES Up
HIS TITLE
By r. D Thomas

~ - - = A&ASAANeNeS
with every recognized top-notcher
III the city entered. except the au-
therftic champion himself, play viii
start at the Arcadia tonight in The
1872 baidline billiard tournament Tor
the 1926 amateur championship q
washington.
Frank Turton who won the city
title tournament held last season
at the establishment OF Lewis an0
Krai1ss. Ii the lone expert NOT eh
tered. Turton already T. listed lof
action IN the Lewis and kraIss
evenf that win determine washing
fonss lineup AGAINST Baltimore ID
fha annual irfercity competition
This. coupled with the fact that be
|ie busy business ,Tlan, makes y
expedient for Frank 10 play IN only
the one event.
The opening contest at the Ar
eadia viii bring together CAPT.
Charles ID. Wolfe and r.. IL Wood,
with action starting ct o'cios:lI.
Wolfe was 0ue " the leaders
III tile memorable tournament
staged 81 Lewis and Krauss -
which TurtOn was the brilliant
victor. TurtOlf lost only one game
as ala Ben. III. Clark and Frank
won the play-off for first place.
CAPTAIN wore, with p. n
Powell. tied for second place In tlls
regularly scheduled competiss On,
each Of these losing only two
gau1es. They look forward To an
other clash. which viii come IN the
Arcadia event
among the entries are:
IarasI, r. w CurrleE IapL-
Charles i. Wolfe. e. kpsgeil, 81
81. wood ana Robert n. kcsits, FL
star perform ers.
g. ,. I.arast. il ana tsonekt "a.
lFouts. neither Of whom stood OUT
Fin the title play last season, NAY
give the boys 3 surprise at the ar
cadia. Both have improved Inn
uaensely since they last appeared ~
Ichampionsh cOpape titiOa.
The tournament winner will re-
cefve d Rold medal emblenatic Of
the title. First, second and third
places Win carry cash awards.
This Is tho first O9 y series Of
che and IVORY tournaments that
win keen Washington blIllardlsts
busy this winter. The Lewis aEa
ISrauss estab IisllEnellt, which has
played LEADING part in prOmOt-
ing cue coripetitiOn, plans
string 81 events.
Joe Concannon. manager Of the
Arcadia billiard room. figures 70 90
the same and down at the Grant
i Central they're getting hepped up
over q pocket billiard program.
before many days the Kingpin IN
4 Nj. Pleasant will have if1 operation
q bis billiard annex and It's
cinch that Pop Evans ia charge.
will keep hls patrons thcrolls hly In
Iterested.
TherA'e another large billiard
room. seldom mentioned IA these
/ days. but still doing business apienty
and this latter to the satisfaction
Iof many old.tirners Old Mike
lScanlon's place at Ninth and y
Streets. at one time the headQ uart-
ers OF all that was best here IN the
great indoor game. goes the even
tenor OF IT. way despite al the
new and bigger additions 10 WASH
lington's billiard equipment.
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who remembers Grey Kennedy.
i WGN1 ABe NAUehtGGtAsAGtf fAWAp&
Clark, Gus Wade, Jake AtE and
-, well It's long list! Mike
SeanIOuss place has an Interesting.
coIOrfuI history and no other
establishment Of It's kind could
i sport q cleaner record. Il was
there that Frank Sherman pol
iished his game before whining
i two national pocket billiard titles.
1
Some OF the bowling alley man
as ars thought they'd have 4 soft
night while the good people Of Wash.
ington listened tn on election TO
turns chat couldn't mean much to
most OF 'eml. But it waa bad
guess. Every alley in the City. Il
seemed. had checks out and lots
| OF them.
After 7:3O O'Clock one IL fortunate
to get an alley without waiting
half an hour OF more. Observers az .
these waiting pinspillers often are
heard to remark: There must be 4
pile OF money in this game But
they think moot OF the long sumner
months when nearly AL the alleys