Chapter VII: Part II: Plate XIII (5)

W. R. Av. G. A.
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Poggenburg, 300 5 2 70 40 9.68 5.66 7.21 5.20
Stark, 300 3 3 77 63 10.34 10.79 7.77 6.78
Keeney, 280 3 5 72 44 9.03 6.83 6.15 6.10
Townsend, 280 2 3 61 48 8. 7.37 5.70 5.29
Muldaur, 220 2 2 36 31 5.64 4.78 4.52 3.73
Arnold, 220 0 0 23 19 3.09 3.17

Approximate average of whole play at Slosson’s, 5.75; at Daly’s, 4.32; of both combined, 5.30.

Play-off for the Daly-Slosson Cup, December 19–20th: P., 600—6.82—44; K., 439—33.

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=A. A. U.’s Second Class B Tournament.= Knickerbocker A. C., N. Y. City, December—300 points, 14:2. This and all later ones given under authority of the A. A. U. were not strictly invitation tournaments, the box-office being open to the public. A. G. Cutler’s run of 74 does not properly belong to this series of games, having been accomplished by reason of his preliminarily playing in more games than some others. Threshie, Smith and Kellogg’s singles are winning ones.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Threshie 5 74 10.34 7.65
Smith 4 72 11.11 6.19
Kellogg 3 49 7.50 5.58
Hendrick 2 52 6.81 4.98
Cutler 1 74 6.31 5.42
Hevner 0 36 3.67

Tournament’s approximate average, 5.55.

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=Chicago Amateur Handicap.= Foley’s Room, December.—14:2. Harris (145), 9—0; Al Taylor (300), 7—2; Levine (145), 6—3; and Lang, Atwater, and the younger Foley (severally 200, 135, and 170), all 5—4. Best single and general averages and highest runs were 7.14—6.20—66 by Taylor, and 6.10—4.—56 by Nolan (250), who won but two games.

1900.

=A. A. U.’s Second Class A Tournament.= Knickerbocker A. C., February 5–16th.—400–point games, 14:2, anchor barred, for championship Silver Cup given by the B. B. C. Co., to become the property of anyone winning it thrice.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Foss 5 115 14.29 10.64
McCreery 4 68 14.81 9.59
Smith 3 54 8.51 7.50
Threshie 2 79 12.90 7.99
Mial 1 80 7.41 6.32
Conklin 0 44 5.68

Average of tournament, 7.95.

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=Metropolitan Amateur Championship of 14:2.= First tournament held by Hanover Club, and second participated in by the N. A. A. B. P., Brooklyn, N. Y., March 12–17th. Average of tournament, 6.57.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Poggenburg 3 49 8.33 7.20
Keeney 2 45 8.57 6.58
Townsend 1 33 5.77 5.52
Stark 0 64 6.58

The remarkable features were presented of three players, Stark, Keeney, and Poggenburg, having the same total innings (125), of Stark and Keeney with 821 points each, and of their also tieing on general average for the first time known to us in a demonstrated way.

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=Roomkeepers’ Championship of Philadelphia.= This time without a handicap, it began May 3d in a tournament at 14:2. Merrick Levy won it, but had to average 4.88 against John Cline to do so. John Thornton was second.

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=A. G. Cutler vs. Chas. Threshie.= Hub Billiard Palace, Boston, May 9th, 10th, 11th.—Match at 14:2. C., 1000—6.17—48; T., 998—51. The pair had the rating then of amateurs.

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=Cook County Amateur Championship.= What with tournament bouts and challenge matches as a sequel, W. P. Mussey’s memorable Chicago 14:2 series lasted this year from February 26th to August 15th. That four out of the nine in the tournament met on even terms tended largely to overcome the logical objection to handicapping as a championship factor. The table below exhibits a winning average of 9.68 for one “scratch,” as well as a general average of 7.10. The challenge matches were always interesting, and often impressive, as when, with a run of 76 and an average of 10.34, Conklin took the emblem from Kellogg. McGinniss, like Kellogg, Brown, and Dr. Parker, lost half his tournament games; but he made amends by winning his whole six matches, thus acquiring ownership of the “Mussey Medal,” in the final match for which, August 15th, he averaged 7.50 against Adams.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Harley Parker, 225 4 52 6.82 3.86
R. J. McGinniss, 300 4 52 9.68 7.10
C. F. Conklin, 300 7 47 7.68 6.
A. J. Brown, 225 4 41 5.11 3.80
W. W. Kellogg, 300 4 44 6.38 5.54
J. D. Adams, 225 7 44 5.92 4.31
T. J. Nolan, 250 2 35 4.90 4.15
B. S. Bingham, 200 3 36 5.74 3.69
C. S. Schmitt, 300 1 51 5.88 4.80

In beating Conklin by 225 to 232 on the tie, Adams averaged 5.77, and Kellogg reached 5.88 in depriving Adams of the championship in the very first match. Expressed in a round way, the average of the tournament was 4.80.

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=Doubled Tournament Games at Daly’s.= N. Y. City, October 15–20th.—Handicap at 14:2. Gallagher (400), 4—0; Morningstar (250), 3—1; Howison (200), 3—1. Highest runs, winning averages and general averages: M., 73—9.62—7.78; H., 39—10—6.07; G., 84—general, 12.55. Playing off tie, Howison won by 2 points on an average of 8.78.

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=Clubmen Made Desperate by Ties.= October.—The 14:2 tournament of the Olympic Club, San Francisco, ended in a first-place tie of four out of seven—Dr. O. B. Burns, F. L. Taylor, J. J. Roggan, and W. Franklin. The first three tied again, shutting out Franklin; and after tieing again and again, they played once three-handed, which summarily cut the Gordian knot thus—Taylor, Burns, and Roggan. In the tournament proper, Burns had made high average (5.77), and Franklin the high run (42).

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=Revival of 8:2 in New Orleans.= Capt. John Miller’s Room, October 22d to November 16th.—Louis Abrams and George H. Miller, the two “scratchmen,” were first and second among six. Best runs and averages: Abrams’s 8.33 and 46, and Miller’s 7.14 and 57.

Following week, same game, match for $50, best in three nights. Abrams made the more points, but Miller won the three nights, averaging 5.88 as his best, and running 48 to Abrams’s 29 for high.

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=Knickerbocker A. C.’s Championship of 14:2.= N. Y. City, beginning December 26th and recordable chiefly because of the winner’s having the unexampled privilege of “keeping warm” in the depth of winter by playing all his games one after another without interregnum, which necessarily had to deprive the remaining games of interest. Contestants: Chas. S. Norris, J. A. Hendrick, Dr. A. B. Miller, Dr. L. L. Mial, and Albro Akin. Best general average, 5.77 by the winner-in-chief, Norris.

1901.

=Championship of the N. A. A. B. P.= First tournament, under the patronage of the Hanover Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., for the Brooklyn Eagle’s Gold Cup, but the third annual one of the Association, Brooklyn, N. Y., January 14–26th. Arthur R. Townsend won play-off. Average of tournament, 5.96. Three tied on high run, and the other three were not far from virtually tieing on general average. Such closeness, practicable for any grade of performers at any form of cushion caroms, is phenomenal at 14:2 balkline for players of the speed of these.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Townsend 4 69 8.11 6.26
Keeney 4 46 7.32 6.04
E. W. Gardner 3 52 8.33 6.80
Stark 3 50 7.89 5.83
Poggenburg 1 50 9.68 5.85
F. C. Gardner 0 50 4.71

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=A. A. U.’s Third Annual Class A Championship Tournament.= Knickerbocker Club, N. Y. City, February 5–15th.—At 14:2. Average of tournament, four 400–point games apiece, 6.39.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Conklin 4 52 8.70 7.55
Threshie 3 47 7.41 7.37
Hendrick 1 40 5.33 5.03
Mial 1 63 6.56 6.39
McKee 1 60 7.30 5.85

In the play-off, Mial made the best run and single average (89 and 8.16), both in defeating McKee.

As winner-in-chief, Conklin on February 16th played Foss, holder of the A. A. U.’s championship. F., 400—10.87—69; C., 262—43.

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=Morningstar vs. Howison.= Maurice Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, beginning February 18th.—Six nights’ purse game at 14:2, even up. M., 1800—8.78—92; H., 1761—76.

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=Progressive Billiards.= City Athletic Club, Toronto, Can., February 23d.—Game so called, ten members on each side, using five tables with four players apiece. Messrs. White and McDonald made highest and lowest individual scores—177 and 37.

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=Three-handed Doubled Games.= Daly’s, N. Y. City, March 18–23d.—Handicap purse tournament at 14:2. Morningstar (300)—1122—23.08—183; Gallagher (400)—1158—19.05—75; McLaughlin (400)—1414—20.—92. G. A.—M., 14.20; McL., 13.09; G., 12.12.

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=Competition by Telegraph.= March 26th.—14:2, St. Louis and Cleveland, Wayman C. McCreery playing in John Lacari’s room and Martin Mullen in Ed. M. Helm’s. Runs, etc., wired to and fro. Averages not announced. Totals and highest runs: M., 500—80; McC., 471—53. McCreery, who suggested this experimental contest, proposed to spot at every inning. As the St. Louisan later wrote _The Weekly Billiardist_: “Mullen thought that too easy, and amended by commencing in the ordinary way, viz., playing on the far ball, then playing with still ball for five innings, then respotting,” and so on.

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=“The Mussey Handicap.”= Mussey’s Room, Chicago, ending May 7th.—Amateur 14:2 tournament for gold watch and chain. Messrs. Adams, Kurtz, Gerhardt, and Miehle, severally in at 240, 200, 215, and 200, were trailers in that order. The other five, with their handicaps, best single averages and highest runs, were Ed. Rein (230)—6.76—52; Dr. Harley Parker (230)—5.90—65; W. W. Kellogg (275)—8.60—45; C. F. Conklin (300)—8.57—49; and H. A. Coleman, of Milwaukee (300)—6.25—36. The two postmen, Conklin and Coleman, won 5—3 each, while Rein and Parker, third heaviest weight-carriers, but first and second winners, won 7 to 1 and 6 to 2.

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=Morningstar vs. Jose Ortiz, of Spain.= Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, May, five nights’ purse game of 14:2. M., 1500—10.49—83; O., 1032—68.

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=C. F. Conklin’s Lofty Average.= A. M. Clarke’s 14:2 handicap, Chicago, closing May 29th.—Leaders were Conklin (250 and unbeaten), 15.60—run, 67; Brown (175), 5.67—33; Morin (175), 6.50—38. The latter two tied in games with 5 up and 2 down, and Brown won play-off by 18.

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=John Miller’s Plexus, or Bunch of Ties.= New Orleans, 14:2 handicap, ending October 2d.—Of seven entries, Abrams (160), G. H. Miller (160), and Zaehringer (140), tied in high run (31), as also did Van Gelder and Peterson (120 each) on 21, while there were two ties for first prize, Abrams winning play-off, and three for fourth.

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=Gallagher vs. Ortiz.= Daly’s, N. Y.; October 7–11th.—14:2 purse game. G., 1500—11.54—82; O., 913 (with 250 odds)—58.

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=Daly Handicap at 18:2.= N. Y. City, October 21–26th, and Willie Hoppe’s first in tournament, which was for purse. Handicap, best winning and general averages, and highest run, individually: Hoppe (200), 10.—8.81—54; Morningstar (300), 12.—12.75—59; McLaughlin (300), 15.79—13.79—89; Gallagher (300), 11.11—9.50—75; Ortiz (225), 5.22 (gen. av.)—49. Hoppe and Ortiz reversed in games, 4—0 to 0—4, and the other three, tieing at 2—1, tied again, and then divided.

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=Chicago Handicap at 14:2.= Foley’s Room, October 18 to December 9th.—Amateur contestants—Harris and Kent, 200; Cochrane and Sorenson, 175; Miller, 160; Dethke, 145; Ballard, 135; Gunther and Shute, 130. Outcome—Harris, Ballard, Sorenson and Cochrane. High runs, with averages of both kinds: 49—5.26—4.00, by Harris. Miller’s 44 was second in runs.

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=Second World’s Championship at 18:1.= Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, N. Y. City, December 2–10th.—Tournament for jeweled badge and $2,000 in cash added by the B. B. C. Co. to $1,500 in entrance fees and net receipts. This was the public début of Leon Barutel, Orlando Morningstar, and Leonard Howison in first-class company. Tournament’s average, five 400–point games apiece, 6.61.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Schaefer 5 68 12.50 7.78
Slosson 3 45 10.26 7.58
Barutel 3 42 8.70 6.19
Sutton 2 64 13.79 9.26
Morningstar 1 62 9.52 5.21
Howison 1 35 5.32 4.84

Instead of any contest, there were three challenges for this emblem. Sutton, who challenged twice, claimed it the latter time, and it was awarded to him on October 30, 1903, in default of Schaefer’s covering forfeit. (See March 4, 1904, and January and March, 1906).

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=Championship of the Northwest at 14:2.= Played for on a 4½ × 9 table in Duluth, Fargo, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, November. Emblematic cup presented by B. B. C. Co.

W. R. Av. G. A.
W. F. Hatley 5 85 14.40 10.33
G. E. Spears 4 86 15. 8.33
C. Peterson 2 60 7.90 6.12
Chas. Clow 1 33 5.80 4.67

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=Schaefer vs. Barutel at 18:2.= Frank A. Keeney’s Knickerbocker Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., December 19–21st, three nights’ purse game. S., 1800—16.90—85; B., 946—58.

1902.

=Last Class B. Tournament of A. A. U.= Knickerbocker Club, N. Y. City, winter of 1901–2.—Game, 14:2. Instead of by games, this tournament was to be decided by best general averages in case of tie for first place. A. G. Cutler, W. W. Kellogg, and J. A. Hendrick tied, and Cutler was winner on average. Other contestants were Frank Billiter, of Minneapolis, C. S. Schmitt, of Chicago, and W. A. Paige, of Boston, all new to this series of games.

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=Second Tournament for “Brooklyn Eagle” Gold Cup.= Brooklyn, N. Y., January 13–18th, under patronage of Hanover Club and under auspices of the N. A. A. B. P. Four games apiece, 300 points, 14:2. Average of tournament, 5.32. Uniformity of runs and general averages is remarkable for players of their speed.

W. R. Av. G. A.
E. W. Gardner 4 52 6.12 5.48
Townsend 2 39 6.25 5.20
Stark 2 37 8.82 5.15
Poggenburg 1 40 6.52 5.88
F. Gardner 1 38 5.26 5.13

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=Championship of France at 18:2.= Grand Hotel, Paris, February, 500–point games.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Cure 2 156 17.86 16.65
Fournil 2 131 31.25 27.73
Vignaux 2 175 50. 20.46
Gibelin 0 70 13.33

Average of tournament, 18.22. The three ties were determined in the same hall in March, and placed Cure first, Fournil second, and Vignaux third.

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=Third and Last Annual for the A. A. U. Championship.= Knickerbocker Club, N. Y. City, February.—Average of tournament, six games apiece, 5.75.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Chas. Norris 5 62 8.89 6.55
W. H. Sigourney 5 64 7.02 5.50
L. L. Mial 4 90 9.09 7.28
C. F. Conklin 3 45 8.51 6.03
Chas. Threshie 2 52 9.55 5.78
J. A. Hendrick 1 34 7.84 4.60
Dr. A. B. Miller 1 42 4.88 4.71

Chas. S. Schmitt played in the opening game, was beaten by Sigourney (400 to 251, average 8.70), and then withdrew, Sigourney losing the credit both of his victory and of his highest average, instead of Schmitt’s forfeiting his other games. (See “Revival of Cushion Caroms,” 1903.)

Mial alone beat Sigourney, and Sigourney was the only one who beat Norris (55 in 400). In playing off, Norris won by 25.

February 19, as chief winner, Norris played Wilson P. Foss, who was 100 when Norris was 71, 153 when he was 211, 237 when he was 307, and winner when he was 464. F., 500—6.85—52; N., 464—70. The B. B. C. Co.’s Challenge Cup then became the property of Foss, he having won it in tournament in 1900, defended it in 1901 match with Conklin, and now in match against another Chicagoan.

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=Adorjan vs. Morningstar.= Daly’s, N. Y. City, May 26–30th.—300 a night, 18:2. A., 1500—17.08—105; M., 929—80.

On the final night, the winner made double figures in ten innings out of his twelve—something whose like probably cannot be matched at any style of game, whether free three-ball or full four-ball. These were successive in the last eight—27, 17, 21, 35, 23, 76, 46, 26.

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=Championship of St. Paul and Minneapolis.= Doubled 300–point games of 14:2, 4½ × 9, closing May 28th.

W. R. Av. G. A.
C. Ferris 3 77 10.34 9.15
J. W. Carney 2 87 10.34 8.20
G. E. Spears 1 55 [11] 8.44

Footnote 11:

The one winning average by Spears is lacking.

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=Championship of Minnesota at 14:2.= Opened at Ryan Hotel, St. Paul, June 16th.—300 points, 4½ × 9.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Ferris 3 77 12.50 9.28
Carney 1 65 10.71 7.94
C. Clow 1 35 6.96 7.90
Spears 1 61 11.11 9.35

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=New England Championship at 18:2.= Boston, Mass., March 25–27th.—Match announced as above (although no tournament had been held), Maxime Thomas, then of Worcester, Mass., vs. A. G. Cutler, Boston. C., 1000—av., 11.90; T., 862. Chief runs not high.

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=Julius Adorjan, of Hungary, vs. McLaughlin.= Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, May 12–16th.—300 points at 18:2. A., 1500—18.29—118; McL., 1294—120. Average of the whole play, 17.15 in 2794 points.

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=Pittsburg, Penn., Handicap at 14:2.= Great Northern Billiard Parlors, ending May 15th.—Won by James English, who was “scratch” with Messrs. Marshall (second prize), Phillippi and Roberts. The two last mentioned tied with Beymer for third, without playing off. English made the best single average (4), as well as the best run (33), which, however, was equaled by one other. Messrs. Powers, Jack and Billings were the remaining contestants.

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=Chicago 14:2 Handicap.= Foley’s, May 12th to July 12th.—Miller (150) first with 7 up and 2 down, and Rein, Kent, Brown, and Hale, respectively at 250, 210, 210, and 140, were tied with 6—3 for from second to fifth. Rein was highest in averages and run, 7.58—5.33—45, and Kent next with 5.53—4.34—41.

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=Amateur Class B Championship of Pacific.= Waldorf Café, San Francisco, July 12th to August 12th.—Games, 150 up, 14:2. Won by J. J. Roggan, who had beaten Frank Pecchart, the favorite, by 1 point in tournament proper, and beat him by 44 in playing off. With no higher run than 16 in the game by which he won third prize, Frank Whitney made best average, 5.17. Pecchart’s 36 was best run of all. The other players were Dr. O. B. Burns, Henry White, Frank Dubois, and Dr. W. E. Davis.

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=Championship of the Northwest.= St. Louis Hotel, Minn., October 1st.—Wm. F. Hatley vs. G. E. Spears, 14:2 on 4½ × 9. H., 300—13.04—44; S., 165—31.

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=Waldorf Café Handicap at 14:2.= San Francisco, November.—Class B amateur tournament. Dr. O. B. Burns won his whole six games, while H. A. Wright, the one “scratchman,” carrying a weight of from 16.67 to 36.67 per cent. more than his opponents, failed twice in his six trials, and tied with Messrs. Coffin and Carcass for second, third, and fourth prizes. The other contestants were Messrs. Howe, De Sola, and H. W. White. Wright made highest single and general averages and best run, 10.34—5.67—58.

1903.

=Fast Play by Chicago Amateurs.= December 29, 1902, to March 18th.—Thos. Foley’s annual winter handicap. Six ran past 40.

W. R. Av.
Conklin, 300 6 58 7.30
Rein, 250 10 74 12.50
Harris, 215 4 44 7.17
Brown, 215 4 46 7.97
Lang, 215 2 24 3.47
Kent, 215 6 50 6.94
Cochrane, 190 4 32 4.22
Miller, 165 4 56 4.23
Adair, 150 3 23 4.29
Ballard, 150 6 20 3.75
Hale, 150 6 37 4.84

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=G. E. Spears vs. Wm. Ryle.= Kansas City, January 12–14th, Minneapolis, January 19–21st.—At 14:2. S., 3000—7.—75; R., 2447—45. April, 1904: S., 1800—73; R., 1493.

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=Third Tournament for “Brooklyn Eagle” Gold Cup.= Brooklyn, N. Y., February 2–13th.—Under patronage of Hanover Club, 300 points nightly, 14:2. Game that directly caused a tie: W. P. Foss, 300—10.—67; E. W. Gardner, 280—31. Play-off, February 14th—F., 300—15.—73; G., 149—38. Tie of four not played off. Average of tournament, 7.87.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Foss 5 82 18.75 12.13
Gardner 5 58 12. 8.72
Conklin 3 59 10.34 6.80
Poggenburg 2 71 9.38 7.51
Stark 2 47 7.69 6.77
Townsend 2 59 8.57 7.41
Mial 2 79 8.11 7.31

Gardner lost only to Foss, and Foss to none but Conklin, who then made his best average.

Of the three—Townsend, Gardner, and Foss—having an equal lien upon this championship, the last declined to compete in the tournament of 1904, which see.

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=Townsend vs. Conklin.= Knickerbocker Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., February 16–19th.—14:2 for a jewel trophy offered by Frank A. Keeney. T., 1000—7.11; C., 918. Neither surpassed his high run in tourney that led to the match.

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=First World’s Championship of 18:2.= Grand Hotel, Paris, France, February 15–20th.—Tournament for emblem and $1,000 in cash, both given by the B. B. C. Co., and added to entrance fees and net receipts. Average of tournament, 17.47. Games, 500 points up.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Cure 2 113 20.83 19.76
Sutton 2 200 31.25 20.81
Vignaux 2 136 23.81 22.29
Slosson 0 71 8.49

Weeks before play began, the four entered into a parole agreement to play off ties, as well as to divide the net receipts equally. Months before that, the first three had signed a document requiring all ties to be determined by the general averages, and specifying as prizes only the emblem, the given money, and the entrance fees. At the conclusion of the final game (Vignaux vs. Cure), it was announced that ties would be played off in the same hall, beginning February 25th. Vignaux declined to play off, claiming to have won on general average, and carrying the case into court. Litigation lasted nine months, the claimant being awarded the championship in his first suit, but denied the equal share in the receipts forming the basis of his second.

All matches are for the jeweled emblem and $500 a side, 500 points up. The first was also the last of this series.

=Vignaux vs. Sutton.= Grand Hotel, Paris, January 29, 1904. V., 500—19.23—148; S., 496—128.

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=Another Tie in General Averages.= Yearly championship of the N. Y. A. C. at 14:2, closing February 26th.—Dr. Walter G. Douglas had for years been the club’s champion at both caroms and pool (beaten at the latter this year), and the tournament of 1903 is given only because of the rarity of an exact tie in general averages, which might not have occurred, however, had not Percy Gardner forfeited to J. V. B. Rapp.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Douglas 3 32 4.80 4.41
Rapp 2 38 5.21 4.41
Kinsman 1 22 3.33 2.86
Gardner 0 15 2.42 1.94

=Philadelphia Amateur Championship at 14:2.= Hall of Philadelphia A. C., closing March 27th.—Won by T. Mortimer Rolls, Belmont Cricket Club, who had also won in 1902, when this championship was instituted by the Schuylkill Navy. R. won by 7—0, and in one game averaged 4.79. With 5—2, J. E. Cape Morton (av., 4.38) and C. A. Shedaker tied for second and third, Morton losing play-off by 250 to 162. Over 4,000 persons saw the tourney in whole or part.

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=Armless Sutton vs. Gallagher.= Given 300 in 1500 at Clarence Greens, March 16–20th, and 600 in 3000 at Maurice Daly’s, March 23–27th, and losing by 653 in N. Y. City, but by only 89 in Brooklyn, George H. Sutton made first formal appearance in the East.

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=Amateur Championship of Twin Cities=, Minneapolis and St. Paul. West Hotel, March.—14:2 on 4½ × 9. Parker won by 6—0, with highest single average, 5.72. Thayer was second. Huyck made highest run, 51.

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=Amateur Championship of France and Belgium.= National Academy of Amateurs (El Dorado), Paris, France, March and April, games 400 points, 18:2. Eight entries, MM. Rérolle, Rasquinet, R. Maure, Lejeune, Fouquet, Naves, Nélys, and Comte de Drée. First and second winners were Rérolle of Toulouse, and Rasquinet, then an army officer in Brussels. One scored 2800, not losing a game, and the other, beaten only by Rérolle (400 to 391), 2791. Against Rasquinet, opponents scored 2319; against Rérolle, but 1485. The highest runs, allowing only one for each player per game, were 109, 103, 87, 73, 73, 61, and 55 for Rérolle, and 91, 67, 63, 42, 41, 30, and 27 for Rasquinet. In single winning averages, Rasquinet reached double figures but twice, viz., 10, and 10.50, while Rérolle reached them in every game, viz., 11.70, 14.60, 14.80, 14.80, 15.30, 17.30, and 33.33 (Lejeune in this game scored but 64 altogether). The general averages, as forwarded from Paris, were 17.40 and 10.10 for Rérolle and Rasquinet; but their single averages, as forwarded, together with their total points per game, show their general averages to have been 15.91 and 9.83.

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=Pittsburg, Penn., Handicap.= Great Northern Room, April and May.—At 4.2, and probably on a 4½ × 9. Bennie (185) tied Poland (170), 5—1 in games each, for first prize ($100), and won play-off. Phillippi (185) beat English (200) for third and fourth after tieing at 4—2. English, who won the series in 1892, this year made best winning average (5.56), first against Poland and next against Jack. Powers and Miller were the other two players.

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=Pacific Coast Class B Amateurs.= Jas. F. Morley’s Rooms, San Francisco, June and July.—14:2 championship. Won by Frank Pecchart, Frank Coffin second. The pair having tied, P. won play-off by 200 to 127, averaging 5.26.

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=Chas. Ferris vs. Al Taylor.= West Hotel, Minneapolis, October.—Three nights of 14:2 on a 4½ × 9, purse game. F., 1200—19.67—112; T., 1008—105.

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=High Amateur Averages.= Maurice Daly’s, N. Y. City, ending October 26th.—Ferdinand Poggenburg and Dr. L. L. Mial going 300 to Wm. Gershel’s 250, doubled games of 14:2.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Poggenburg 4 119 17.65 11.11
Gershel 2 33 8.93 5.97
Mial 0 51 7.86

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=Championship of the Northwest.= Fargo, N. D., Duluth and Minneapolis, Minn., ending November 13th.—For cash prizes and a challenge emblem presented by the B. B. C. Co. Doubled games of 14:2, 300 points, on a 4½ × 9 table. Average of tournament, 10.03.

W. R. Av. G. A.
W. F. Hatley 6 88 21.43 13.81
F. Billiter 5 94 13.64 10.67
G. Spears 5 67 15. 9.89
C. Peterson 3 70 14.29 10.04
C. Ferris 1 91 17.65 9.06

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=J. W. Carney vs. George Kenniston.= Hoffman Billiard Parlors, Los Angeles, Cal., November 18–20th.—Purse game, 14:2. C., 1000—7.60—50; K., 953—45.

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=McLaughlin vs. Gillette.= Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, December 1–3d.—Purse game, 18:2. McL., 1000—13.16—100; G., 485—38.

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=Brooklyn Amateur Tournament at 14:2.= Keeney’s Knickerbocker Academy, ending December 14th.—200–point games. Won by C. B. Barker, who made high run and average—41 and 8.70. In playing off ties for second and third prizes, C. E. White beat Dr. H. D. Jennings. Other contestants were Frank Boyd and L. A. Servatius.

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=Amateur Tournament at 14:2.= Metropolitan Academy, N. Y. City, games of 200 points, ending December 15th.—Won by L. A. Servatius in playing off ties with Messrs. Bennett and Farley. Servatius averaged 4.65 in defeating Farley. J. H. Millette made high run—39.

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=Eames vs. Cutler.= Hub Billiard Parlors, Boston, November 3–5th.—400 points nightly, 18:2, $250 a side. E., 1200—15.19—124; C., 1021—84. The remote cause of this contest was that Cutler, having withdrawn from the amateur ranks, had the year before, in Boston, while Eames was in Denver, Col., played and won from Thomas, formerly of Montreal, a balkline match of multiple nights announced as for the championship of New England.

1904

=First American Amateur Tournament at 18:2.= Daly’s, N.Y. City, beginning January 4th. Handicap.

W. R. Av. G. A.
J. F. Poggenburg (300) 3 58 10. 8.41
Dr. L. L. Mial (300) 2 60 8.57 8.51
Wm. Gershel (250) 1 27 4.15 5.13
F. M. Canda (225) 0 26 3.71

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=First Match for 18:2 Championship of the World.= See Vignaux vs. Sutton, January 29, 1904, under February, 1903.

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=Pittsburg, Pa., Handicap at 14:2.= Great Northern Billiard Hall, January 11–26th.—4½ × 9 table. First to fourth, Messrs. Bennie, Jack, Powers, and Brown. Bennie, the only “scratchman,” made highest run and best average—36 and 6.90.

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=Chicago Handicap at 14:2.= A. M. Clarke’s Room, ending January 28th.—J. M. Miller (175), first in field of ten, winning every game. C. F. Conklin (300), beaten only by Miller (175 to 213), made highest run (112) and best average (12). John Daly, who also was at 300, won only a game or two.

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=Fourth Annual Gold Cup Championship.= Under patronage of the German Liederkranz Society and the N. A. A. B. P. Held in the minor hall of the German Liederkranz Society, N. Y. City, February 1–13th.—Game, 300 points, 14:2, Arthur Marcotte, of Quebec, representing Canada; C. F. Conklin, Chicago; J. De Munn Smith, St. Louis; E. W. Gardner, New Jersey; and Dr. L. L. Mial, Arthur Townsend, and J. Ferdinand Poggenburg, N. Y. City. Prizes: First, the “Brooklyn Eagle” Gold Cup (contingent upon three winnings, consecutive or non-consecutive) and a royal Dresden vase (absolute); second, silver punchbowl and ladle; third, marble statue of “Night”; fourth, a camera; for high run, an ornate clock, with candelabra; for best single average, a cut-glass wine set, with silver tray. Average of tournament, six games apiece, 6.66.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Poggenburg 5 73 13.64 8.56
Mial 5 73 10. 7.39
Gardner 4 64 9.68 6.75
Conklin 3 68 13.04 8.41
Townsend 2 60 9.09 5.98
Smith 1 50 6.82 5.62
Marcotte 1 35 3.90 4.67

Tie game, February 13th: Poggenburg, 300—9.68—41; Mial, 185—31. By agreement, high run in this game also determined the tie as to high run of tournament.

Four players now have equal claims upon the Gold Cup, viz., Messrs. Townsend, Gardner, Foss, and Poggenburg, severally as winners of the tournaments of 1901, 1902, 1903, and 1904.

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=Championship of “The Young Masters.”= Salle Scribe, Grand Hotel, Paris, France, beginning January 31st. Tournament at 18:2 (in reality, 45 centimetres, or 17¾ in.), 400–point games. There were ten in at the outset, but Jose Ortiz, of Spain, and Mons. Payan, of France, appear not to have played, while Juan Alvarez, of Spain, and Al Taylor and Joseph Capron, of Chicago, seem to have withdrawn after playing two unsuccessful games apiece. This table, forwarded from Paris, limits itself to the four games played by every one of the five named therein after the others had withdrawn.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Willie Hoppe 4 94 17.39 12.80
Manuel Sanchez 3 54 18.18 13.71
Robert Glorieux 2 100 11.76 10.86
Ora Morningstar 1 107 18.18 13.89
Mons. Ducasse 0 52 8.78

We make the average of the final four games apiece, or ten in all, to be 11.82.

As matter of exact record, Hoppe’s best winning average is 20, made in defeating Taylor by 400 to 164; Morningstar’s 21.05, in defeating Capron by 400 to 85; and Glorieux’s 12.90, in defeating Taylor by 400 to 310. The general averages of those known here to have played six games apiece are: Morningstar, 14.14; Hoppe, 13.66; and Sanchez, 12.36. Omission of the first two games played by every one of those three affects the single and general averages somewhat, but not the high runs at all, all five of the tabulated contestants happening to have made their highest in their latest four games.

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=Boston Class A Amateur Tournament at 14:2.= “The Hub” Academy, closing about February 26th.—Won by W. A. Paige, who defeated Charles Eaton in final game by 300 to 260. Table probably 4½ × 9.

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=Championship of the World at 18:1.= Paris, France, March 4th.—First match contest for championship instituted in 1901 and $500 a side. Maurice Vignaux, 500—12.82—89; Geo. Sutton (as champion), 387—79. (For later matches, see Jan., March, and Oct., 1906.)

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=Brooklyn Amateur Handicap at 14:2.= Keeney’s Knickerbocker Academy, February and March.—H. Hoxie, H. White, and F. Lowenthal, tied, won play-offs in that order March 7th, 8th, 9th.

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=Fifth Avenue Hotel Amateur Handicap at 14:2.= N. Y. City, ending March 12th.—C. E. White (300), 5—0; E. O. Presby (250), second. In playing off for third prize, Dr. W. G. Douglas (300) defeated L. A. Servatius (250) and J. M. Millette (225). F. M. Canda (300), who beat Douglas only, made highest run of tournament (46), and White the highest single (6.67) and general average (5.51).

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=Interclub Tournament at 14:2.= Arts Club, Philadelphia, February and March.—Won by T. Mortimer Rolls, of Belmont Cricket Club, who made highest runs and single averages (94 and 10.87, both against T. R. Reaney, and 51 and 6.95, both against Dr. C. A. Borda). Other competitors were Harrison Townsend, Julius J. Hovey, J. E. Cape Morton, and Dr. Holden.

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=Foley’s Chicago Amateur Handicap at 14:2.= Ended March 23d.—J. M. Miller (155) first, Ed. C. Rein (250) second, and Messrs. Hale and Cochrane (both 180) tied for third and fourth. Rein made highest run (76) and best single average (11.36, against Hale, in final game).

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=Amateur International Souvenir Match at 18:2.= Theatre of the Automobile Club of France, Paris, March 29th, 30th, 31st, for an emblem presented by the B. B. C. Co. Admission by invitation. Lucien Rérolle, of Toulouse, 1200—12.24—129, 94, 71; W. P. Foss, of Haverstraw, N. Y., 1153—74, 73, 63.

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=Championship of Billiard Club at 14:2.= N. Y. City, ending March 29th in tie among Dr. A. B. Miller, Florian Tobias, and Dr. W. G. Douglas. Of the eight contestants, Wm. Gershel made the highest run (65), Douglas the next highest (51), and Tobias the third highest (50). The highest average (8.06) was made by both Douglas and Miller.

Miller, in winning both plays-off, ran 52 and averaged 11.36 against Douglas, this final contest of theirs occurring April 18th. All games were of 250 points. The 11.36 is Miller’s best performance in a set competition to date.

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=Championship of Minneapolis.= Hotel Vendome, March and April, game 14:2 on a 4½ × 9 table, with seven contestants.—Winner was Hogue, who lost no game. Logan, who was second, was beaten only by Hogue, and made best run, single average, and general average, viz., 43, 7.14, and 5.28.

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=Interborough Amateur Tournament at 14:2.= Maurice Daly’s Room, N. Y., March 28th to April 14th, including ties. All games were 300 up. Average of tournament, 5.50.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Dr. W. G. Douglas 3 43 6.26 5.60
F. M. Canda 3 42 7.14 6.68
A. Lewenberg 3 40 7.50 6.02
C. B. Barker 1 36 5.45 4.87
C. E. White 0 38 4.04

The playing-off resulted in another tie, Douglas being beaten by Lewenberg, Canda by Douglas, and Lewenberg by Canda. In beating Canda for the second time, Douglas averaged 9.68, thus surpassing his best previous one—8.06 (vide “Championship of Billiard Club at 14:2,” above). In the second play-off, Douglas beat both Lewenberg and Canda, and the latter lost to Lewenberg.

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=Mussey’s Handicap at 14:2.= Chicago, Ill., March and April, with C. F. Conklin and R. J. Maginniss at “scratch” (300). Of the other eight, H. A. Coleman represented Milwaukee, and C. S. Schmitt, once of Chicago, had latterly moved from Boston, Mass., to Racine, Wis. Messrs. Reinman, Huntley, Adams, Harley Parker, and George Kent were of the eight representatives of Chicago. Maginniss, who made best run (89) and best single average (13.64), was winner-in-chief, with Schmitt second. Conklin, who made the best general average, was third, and Coleman and Adams divided fourth and fifth prizes. Maginniss and Conklin played the final game, April 29, the latter losing. Maginniss was beaten by Kent only.

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=French Amateur Championship of the World at 14:2.= Billiard Palace, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, March 7–21st, under the auspices of the Federation des Sociétés Françaises d’Amateurs de Billard. Unlike that at 18:2, won by Rérolle a year before, this championship is typified in a Challenge Cup, the gift of the B. B. C. Co. There were twenty-one entries, but a weeding-out process left but six for the final rounds, whose fifteen games resulted in these winnings:

Rérolle 5
Darantière 4
Blanc 3
De Drée 2
Maure 1
Cayla 0

Maure forfeited a half-finished game to De Drée. The best runs of the whole tournament were 111 by Rérolle (in the last game of all, which was with Darantière, second winner) and 108 by Maure. The third-best run seems to have been Darantière’s 89. The best winning average was Rérolle’s 20 against Blanc. As to general averages, there are no complete figures at hand as to any one of the players; but Rérolle’s was probably not far below 15. The games were 400 up. A special round of 250–point ones for a consolation prize terminated as follows: Nélys, 3—0; Castel, 2—1; Faroux, 1—2; Lamare, 0—3. In the deciding game of this round, Nélys vs. Faroux, the former averaged 8.62, with 31 for high run to 27 for the loser (Faroux).

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=San Francisco Handicap at 14:2.= At J. F. Morley’s Room, May 2–19th.—H. A. Wright, winner-in-chief, averaged 16.67 in one game and 14.85 in all (1500 points), and ran 101, 95, 84, 76, and 67 for high in his five games. Wilson H. Sigourney, beaten by Wright and Frank Dubois, had 18.75 for high average, 12.62 in 1426 points for general, and 111, 95, 83, 79, and 79 for high runs per game. The two general averages are high for amateurs in this country. Dubois, Frank Coffin, Dr. O. B. Burns, and J. F. Morley played 150 to the 300 of Wright and Sigourney.

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=Jacob Schaefer vs. Louis Cure.= Match at 18:2 for $2000 a side, 500 points nightly, Nouveau Cirque, Paris, France, June 6–11th.—S., 3000—22.90—166; C., 2988—255.

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=Al Taylor vs. John Matthews.= Chicago, September 14th.—Match at 18:2 for $50 a side. T., 400—11.11—61; M., 259—39.

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=Ten Games Straight.= Summer handicap at 14:2, Foley’s Room, Chicago, July 7th to October 3d.—Roney (115) won all his games. Myers (150, scratch) tied Bevington (140) for second and third, and Bevington forfeited. Eleven contestants.

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=Amateur Handicap at 14:2.= Maurice Daly’s, New York City, October 3–10th.—Winners of the first eight games made an aggregate average of 8.25, which is high for the start of an amateur tournament having as many as six competitors. After defeating J. Ferd. Poggenburg (scratch, 300) by 240 to 292, and Wm. Gershel by 240 to 188, averaging 8 in the first game and 8.28 in the second, Albert Brock had to withdraw, and those games and his unplayed three were canceled. This was Paul Van Dieman’s first tournament, H. A. Coleman’s first in the East, and Albert Lewenberg’s first tournamental victory at balkline.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Poggenburg, 300. 3 70 15.79 7.80
Lewenberg, 240. 4 44 8. 6.96
Coleman, 240. 2 36 6.32 5.07
Gershel, 240. 1 39 6.32 5.43
Brock, 240. 2 37 8.25 8.12[12]
Van Dieman. 0 32 4.38

Footnote 12:

Two games only.

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=Boston Class B Amateur Championship at 14:2.= “Hub” Billiard Parlors, October.—Amidon won all five of his games, and also made high winning average (4.26) and second highest run (26). Smalley’s 39 was highest.

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=Chas. Threshie vs. Wm. A. Paige.= Class A challenge match at 14:2, Boston, Mass., about November 15th.—T., 400—11.11—48; P., 203—36.

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=Championship of Northwest and Southwest at 18:2.= A tournament so announced was held in St. Louis toward the close of November, and was won by Al Taylor, of Chicago. The other contestants were Chas. Peterson, Frank Maggioli, and Lewis Shaw. They played afternoon and night, 300 points up, and every game (600 points in all) had two sessions. Peterson was second. It was professedly a challenge championship for shortstops, but there has never been a match for it.

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=Handicap 14:2 at Louis Bensinger’s, Chicago.= October 31st to December 8th.—Chas. F. Conklin (scratch, 300) won every game of his but the last, which was with Ed. Rein (265), who finished second. Tieing Bliss for third and fourth, A. J. Brown won play-off. Bliss had been the leader until Conklin, making high average (14.29), defeated him by 300 to 46.

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=Maurice Daly’s Class B 14:2 Tourney.= N. Y. City, December 5–14th.—Won by Albert Lewenberg, with H. A. Coleman second and F. M. Canda third. The chief winning averages were 9.26 by Lewenberg, 8.03 by J. B. Whitehead, and 7.58 by Canda. This was the first tournament of Whitehead and James Vantine, and Canda’s last up to the present time. A sixth competitor was Louis A. Servatius.

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=Championship of Illinois at 18:2.= Louis Bensinger’s Room, Chicago, December 12–17th.—Three-handed tournament among Clem E. Ellison, John Matthews, and George Wheeler. Ellison, the winner, made the best run (124 in the first half of his game with Matthews), and the latter the best full-game average (13.33) in his contest with Wheeler. They played in double sessions of 300 points each, and in his first session with Wheeler Matthews showed the remarkable speed of 33.33 per inning for the 300 points.

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=Foley’s Chicago Handicap at 14:2.= October 17th to December 24th.—Ballard (175) lost only one game to the two each of Jenkins (140) and Ed. Rein (scratch, 300). In the play-off for second prize, Jenkins beat Rein. Of the other seven, J. M. Miller (200) failed to win a game. Rein made the best run and average (84 and 9.38), Ballard the second-best run (37), and De Witt Cochrane the second-best average (8.70).

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=Amateur Match, Ed. W. Gardner vs. Dr. L. L. Mial.= German Liederkranz Society’s Rooms, December 29th.—Game 14:2. G., 300—14.29—137; M., 100—46.

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=Northwestern Amateur Championship.= West Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn., November and December, Messrs. Logan, Huyck, and Campbell tieing, playing off, and winning the first three prizes in that order. Thayer made the best run (50), and Thayer, Logan, and Fremont tied on the best winning average (7.14). Liverman, Stephenson, and Risden were the other competitors. The game was 14:2, 200 up, on a 4½ × 9 table.

1905.

=Maurice Daly’s Class B Amateur Championship.= Begun January 23d, N. Y. City, and won by H. A. Coleman.—In playing off tie for second and third, February 3d, Wm. Gershel averaged 11.11, defeating Albert Lewenberg by 300 to 119. Other contestants were Chas. E. White, Louis A. Servatius, and James Vantine. Games were 14:2, 300 up.

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=Fifth Annual Gold Cup Championship Tourney.= Held in Chicago January 30th to February 11th, under the auspices and at the clubhouse of the Chicago Athletic Association. Known as the “Diamond Tournament.” Games, 300 points, 14:2. The day before play began, H. A. Wright, of San Francisco, was summoned home, his father having been mortally stricken by paralysis; after playing one game, defeating Edward Rein, of Chicago, J. Ferdinand Poggenburg was called to New York by the death of his mother; and Rein, having won from Ed. W. Gardner and lost to Chas. S. Schmitt and Wilson H. Sigourney, was forced by illness to forfeit to Chas. F. Conklin, Chas. S. Norris, Byron Stark, and Charles Threshie. The C. A. A. threw out the games of Poggenburg and Rein, but the subjoined table retains them, inclusive of the 51 to 1 score by Conklin and Rein as a factor in their general averages, as well as Poggenburg’s run of 79, which was actually the highest of the tournament, although Conklin’s 78 was awarded the special prize in consequence of the canceling of games.

W. H. R. Av. G. A.
Conklin 7 78 11.11 7.76
Sigourney 7 61 10.34 7.49
Gardner 5 76 11.11 8.17
Norris 5 66 8.82 6.28
Threshie 5 45 7.89 6.02
Schmitt 3 49 8.11 5.31
Stark 2 52 5.51
Rein 1 41 6.82 4.73
Poggenburg 1 79 6.97

Stark has no winning average because the two games credited to him were won by forfeiture only, and Poggenburg lacks a general average because of having played but one game.

Averaging 8.33, Norris won the play-off for fourth and fifth prizes by 300 to 256. The championship tie was won by 300 to 231, Conklin averaging 6.52; and Conklin averaged 9.09 in winning from Gardner, by 300 to 263, the special prize for high single average.

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=Mussey’s 14:2 Handicap, Chicago.= Held in February, and won by Dr. Harley C. Parker, who was at “scratch” with C. F. Conklin, whom he defeated by 300 to 228, losing to George Kent alone. Kent, Walker, Edwards, and A. J. Brown tied for second, third, fourth, and fifth prizes, and agreed to divide.

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=A Shortstop Championship.= McLaughlin’s Room, N. Y. City, February 27th to March 10th.—Tournament for the 14:2 shortstop championship of Greater New York and vicinity. Frank Hoppe won his whole four games, Louis M. Crane and Walter Aborn tied for second and third prizes (Crane won play-off by 250 to 227), and Wm. Cox and Fred. Harer tied for last two places, Cox winning by 250 to 160. Crane made highest run and best single average, 45 and 6.94, and Hoppe the best general average, 4.85. This was meant to be a challenge championship for an emblem given by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., but there have been no matches.

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=Philadelphia Clubmen’s 14:2 Handicap.= Tournament under auspices of the Schuylkill Navy’s Athletic Club, February 20th to March 20th.—Every man played in nine games. Dr. Uffenheimer, of the Pennsylvania University Club, won his every game but one, and that the opening one, in which Hovey defeated him by 20.

H. G. W. H. R. H. A. G. A.
T. Mortimer S. Rolls 325 6 47 9.56 5.51
J. E. Cope Morton 275 6 47 5.85 4.31
Dr. Wm. E. Uffenheimer 240 8 36 5.59 4.30
Julius J. Hovey 240 5 35 6.86 3.74
Dr. F. W. Holden 240 5 25 4.71 3.46
C. A. Borda 240 3 30 3.93 3.05
James S. Alcorn 225 6 53 5.62 3.08
Walter R. McShea 225 3 24 4.26 2.70
H. P. Moon 225 1 25 3.14 2.44
W. A. Hawley 225 2 27 3. 2.73

Alcorn, who made the highest run in the tourney proper, was defeated in the play-offs by both Rolls and Morton. In defeating Alcorn, Morton surpassed his tournamental average by making 5.98, and Rolls made 7.22, surpassed only by his 9.56 in beating Moon by 325 to 82. Also defeating Rolls in the play-off (275 to 292, with 5.73 for winning average), Morton secured second prize.

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=French Championship of the World at 14:2.= Classes A and B were both determined in March. The Class B tourney, held first, was won by Roudil, of Montpellier, who lost but one of his six games, and tied Nélys, of Fontainebleau, as to highest run (51), but was second in winning average (6.81) to Rose, of Paris (7.89), who lost four games. Roudil’s general average was 4.79, which was second to Nélys’ 4.99. The winner of second prize was Pleindoux, of Beziers, who won four games, and yet was the only one of the seven whose general average (3.72) failed to pass 4.

Lucien Rérolle won Class A, although he lost one game to Letellier by 400 to 259, the winning average being 16.

W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Rérolle 3 118 20. 15.55
Darantière 2 47 14.29 10.78
Letellier 2 85 16. 9.58
De Drée 2 54 9.09 8.36
Artus 1 108 9.30 7.80

In the play-offs, Darantière scored 400 to 213 and averaged 14.29 against Letellier, and 400 to 218, with an average of 16.67, against De Drée; and Letellier, in defeating De Drée, averaged 11.11, making the ninth winning average above 10 in thirteen games. The play-off high runs were: Darantière, 82; Letellier, 72; De Drée, 60.

The average of the tournament may be roundly expressed as 10.35, exclusive of the three tie-games.

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=Bensinger 14:2 Handicap, Chicago.= Ed. Rein won by defeating C. F. Conklin in the final game, about March 15th, leaving Conklin tied for minor prizes with Thos. J. Nolan and Dr. Harley Parker. Conklin and Nolan defeated Parker in the play-offs.

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=Amateur 14:2 Handicap in Brooklyn, N. Y.= Frank A. Keeney’s Room, February, March, and April.—Won by J. M. Millette (225), who lost but one game out of seven. Chas. E. White (scratch, 260) and Wm. A. Leonard (200) tied on 5—2, and no one else did better than 3—4, which was the tally of Louis A. Servatius (230), Frank A. Boyd (225), and John A. Keane (220). The other two were Geo. C. Seeley (200) and Henry Hoxie (190). The best winning averages were White’s 7.03 and Leonard’s 4.76, the best general averages White’s 5.72 and Millette’s 3.89, and the best runs Leonard’s 43 and Servatius and White’s 41 each.

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=Jacob Schaefer vs. W. F. Hoppe.= Three nights of 18:2, John Miller’s Room, New Orleans, April 18th, 19th, 20th.—S., 1500—16.85—117; H., 1467—118.

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=French “Championship of the World” at 18:2.= Paris held a tournament in April and May.—The winner was Van Duppen, of Antwerp. Totals were made public, but not averages and runs.

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=Maurice Daly’s Class B.= N. Y. City, May 22–26th.—“Even up” at 14:2. Neither having won a game, Wm. Gershel and Albert Lewenberg did not play the scheduled sixth and last.

W. H. R. W. A. G. A.
Mark Muldaur 3 41 7.14 6.05
H. A. Coleman 2 44 8.33 6.17
A. Lewenberg 0 26 5.03
Wm. Gershel 0 46 3.70

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=Foley’s Summer Class B Handicap, 14:2.= Chicago, Ill., May 15th to October 13th.—Twelve entries, J. M. Miller (scratch, 200) tieing Roney (145) and C. L. Jackson (200) for first, second, and third. Harris (200) made the highest run, 41, and Jackson, new to tournaments, the best winning average, 6.90. Playing off the ties put Jackson, Miller, and Roney from first to third.

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=Summer 14:2 Tourney at Daly’s.= N. Y. City, June 12–21st.—Won by Eddie Foy, beaten only by W. Wefers, who made the highest run (31), which was duplicated by M. Conly, whose winning average (4.65) was second only to R. Dittman’s 6.45, and whose general average, 3.42, was highest of all. Games were 200 up, L. Wormser winning none, and S. B. De Young, Dittman, and Wefers tied on 3—2 for second, third, and fourth prizes, play-offs resulting as those players are named.

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=Al Taylor’s Stunt at 18:2.= Wagered that he could not average 15 in six sessions at Foley’s Room, Chicago, week ending June 24th, Taylor to choose his opponent and selecting George Wheeler, he failed by 20 per cent. T., 2500—12.14—104; W., 1683—74.

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=Three-handed 18:2.= Louis Bensinger’s Room, Chicago, week ending September 2d.—Games played in double sessions. Clem E. Ellison won, defeating both George Wheeler and Frank Maggioli, who came out even. Wheeler made highest run (120) and average (21.40), but it was against Maggioli. Against the safer Ellison, who won by 600 to 523, he could not reach 9.50. Maggioli lost to Ellison by 449 to 600.

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=Amateur Championship at 14:2.= Challenge match, 4½ × 9 table, West Hotel, Minneapolis, about September 7th.—Ed. Huyck (champion), 200—5.26—30; W. F. Thayer, 142—26.

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=Maurice Daly’s Class A Handicap at 18:2.= N. Y. City, October 2–7th.—H. A. Coleman (240) was first; J. Ferd. Poggenburg (300), second; Wm. Gershel (240), third; and Dr. Walter G. Douglas (240), fourth. Poggenburg, whom Coleman defeated by 240 to 232 in the opening game, made the highest three runs of the tourney, 60, 73, and 54, and also the highest average, 12, first against Douglas, and again in defeating Gershel. Coleman’s 44 was the fourth highest run, and his 8.57 the highest average next to Poggenburg’s 12. Gershel’s winning average was 5.33. The general averages were: Poggenburg, 8.95; Coleman, 6.05; Gershel, 5.72; Douglas, 4.88.

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=Class B 14:2 in San Francisco.= “The Savoy,” September and October.—Won by George Kennedy. High average, 10, was made by Wm. Maguire. Within a few days, these two played 1,000 up at Jas. F. Morley’s Rooms, Kennedy winning by 31 and averaging 6.90.

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=Handicap 14:2 in Portland, Ore.= J. G. Reddick’s Room, September and October.—W. F. Lowry, A. Clark, W. R. Cody, and J. Mayer played 250 to C. B. Hansen’s 160. When last heard from here, Lowry or Clark should have been winner-in-chief.

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