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WITH CUE AND BALLS
BILLIARD EXPERTS TO BE FURTHER
' RESTRICTED.
There Will Be Little Nursing; and No
Anchoring; or II a l l Play at the Coining
Tournament In New York A Great
Contest. .
[Special Correspondence.]
New York, Nov. 23.—The billiard
tournament which begins at Madison
Square Garden Monday evening, Nov.
29, and continues through the week
Will undoubtedly prove one of the most
interesting conW 'ts with the cue and
ball that have been witnessed for sev
eral years past. Not only will the clev
erest experts of the world contest in
these events, but the rules which have
heretofore governed championship con
tests have been so altered and amended
for the coming tournament that their
all round playing abilities are sure to
be more nearly equalized than at any
time since balk line billiards came into
vogue. •
The rules which will govern the com
ing tournament are simply tlie result of
endeavors by such players as Slosson,
Schaefer and Ives to keep the game it
self somewhat in advance of their own
wonderful skill and cleverness with the
cue. In other words, the restrictions
that have from time to time been im
posed, in the form of rules tending to
do away with the possibilities ,of ex
tended runs by any player in competi
tion, hkve served their purpose but a
short time. It required but a few
months of practice in each instance for
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THE GAMES.
these wizards of the cue tp overcome
the handicap imposed, and, presto, they
were as clever as ever and fully as like
ly to run the game out with the balls
once anchored to their liking. When
such a condition of affairs had been
reached, it only remained for addition
al restrictions to be levied, for no prob
ability is more undesirable in a match
game or tournament at billiards than
that of one of the contestants getting
the balls in hand at an early stage of
the game and running out hie string
while his competitor sits helplessly by,
and sees the contest ended.
Years ago, soon after the pocket war
succeeded by the all rail table, four
balls were decided to be too many upon
a table at one time, and the three ball
game was adopted. Very soon, howev
er, the leading experts learned the trick
of anchoring the balls in the corner of
the table and by driving the cue ball
backward and forward across the faces
of the anchored balls to continue their
play so long as they were able to stand
at the table. To prevent this the
“champion’s game” was devised, in
which chalk lines were drawn upon the
cloth from the side to the end rails,
thus forming a triangular space at
each corner in which the number of
points that could be counted in a single
run, without first driving an object ball
across the chalk line, was limited. From
this style of game was evolved the balk
line, which with certain important re
strictions will be the game played in
the coming tournament.
At first, balk line billiards was a hard
proposition, even for tlie most expert
{flayers. The lining of the table into
nine spaces and limiting the number of
points a player could make in any one
space without first sending a ball across
the chalk line and returning it to its
original position, or, technically speak
ing, “driving it out of balk,” was a
new game to the best of them. Before
long, however, the trick of anchoring
the first and second object balls against
the cushion on each side of a balk line
was mastered, and, each ball thus lying
in a different space, the player was at
liberty to drive his cue ball across their
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facesand count so long as he could hold
the balls at anchor. The limit of endur
ance was finally reached when Schaefer
ran out a game in New York city by
this method with a run of 666 points,
and Ives followed him at Chicago a sea
son later with a run out of 483. It was
then decided to limit the points a player
could make at anchor to ten, and up to
the close of last season this rule seemed
effective. Indications were not wanting
last winter, however, that the imposi
tion of still greater restrictions would
be necessary if the attractiveness of the
expert game was to be maintained, and
these restrictions have now been applied.
The balk line in the coming contests
will be 18 inches from the cushions, but
one shot will be allowed in balk, and but
one point cau be counted from the balls
at anchor. A glance at the accompany
ing diagram of a table lined for the up
to date game will make the simpler rules
clear.
The result of these restrictions, as can
be easily imagined, will be, essentially,
a game more difficult than any yet at
tempted and yet one that will abound
in plays far more brilliant in character
and more attractive to spectators than
any employed in past tournaments. Not
only will there be more action in the
game, but the opportunity for sensation
al open table play, masse, follow and
long draw shots will of necessity be
greatly increased, to the end of more
nearly equalizing the playing strength
of the contestants than has seemed prac
ticable heretofore.
As to the contestants, they will be
those players whose names, styles of
play and accomplishments with the cue
are well known in every city in the
world where billiards is played. There
will be five players in all —Slosson,
Schaefer, Ives, Daly and Sutton. And
What a host of pleasant recollections
the mention of these names awakens in
the memory of the average lover of bil
liards as, recounting the great contests
that have taken place in this city, Chi
cago and Paris, he recalls the enthusi
asm awakened by the marvelous execu
tion of Ives, the wonderful brilliancy
if Schaefer, the faultless technic of
Uosson and the cleverness of Vignaux,
Daly, Garnier and the Dions in contests
that have aroused the keenest interest
upon both sides of the Atlantic. And
indeed there are few more impressive
scenes than that of a closely fought bat
tle between two such experts. The pret
ty costumes of the women and the even
ing dress of the men give eclat to the
scene, for a billiard contest between ex
perts in the metropolis is essentially a
fashionable event, and the class of spec
tator' present is in every way character
istic of such.
At a great billiard game even the
spectator who does not understand the
finer points of play as well as he might
catches the enthusiasm and finds his
blood tingling with an excitement that
under such conditions is wonderfully
contagious. In the coming games there
are sure to be some strong situations
and many a stirring burst of applause,
for Slosson, Schaefer and Ives are in
fine fettle, Daly is enthusiastic ever the
game, and is playing it better every
day in practice, while Sutton, although
a “short stop,” is a strong player, and
likely under the new rules to prove an
exceedingly interesting dark horse.
The games will consist of 500 joints
each and will be played on a tabic of
regulation size. There will be three
prizes, the cash being derived from SIOO
entry fees, $1,250 added by the Eruns
wick-Balke.-Collender company, and the
net box office receipts. Entries closed
Nov. 7. W. L. Palmer.
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ALIASES OF rGyaltV.
Emperors, Kings, Queens and Princes
Travel Under Assumed Names.
[Special Correspondence.]
London, Nov. 15.—The word “alias”
has to a majority of people an unpleas
antly suggestive sound. It at once
brings to mind murderers, thieves and
scalawags in general and is invariably
associated with the printed accounts of
.court proceedings.
When one reads or hears that John
Smith is alias Tom Jones, John Smith
is invariably put down as a bad lot
and an undesirable person to meet in a
dark street.
But aliases have their legitimate
uses, and, strange as it may seem, they
abound among the royal families of Eu
rope. There is always a certain amount
of commotion when royalty goes gad
ding, and a pretty hurly burly might
ensue at the railroad stations if the pop
ulace knew that the king of this or the
prince of that was about to descend
from his coach or railway carriage.
Queen Victoria, for instance, finds it
advisable at .times to use an incognito.
Probably every one in England knows
that she and the Countess of Balmoral
are one and the same. She, however,
does not always use that alias. Occa
sionally when traveling she goes under
the name of the Duchess of Lancaster.
This is an alias, and yet it is not. It is
one of her numerous titles, but there is
no doubt that it is used to hide the
greater title of queen.
His royal highness the Prince of
Wales is very often plain Mr. Moulton,
and the democratic gracioußHess of his
manner isWchttetomakethe alias all
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the more impenetrable, une wSuid not
hesitate in' a moment of desperation to
ask Mr. Moulton for a match or the
time of day.
| The. Princess Maud has always had a
strange passion for traveling about in
cognito. Upon these occasions she
adopts, as a rule, the name Miss
Mills.
| Some time ago as Miss Mills she
spent two or three weeks at a country
house as one of a large party. She was
introduced as a neNvcomer by a chaper-
■ on whose position was an unimpeacha
ble social guarantee.
Although as the days passed it became
evident that Miss Mills stood among the
guests, though not of them, she .was the
center of attraction. It was not long be
fore every man in the house was at her
feet.
With the greatest of good humor, but
a gentle, unmistakable dignity withal,
she discouraged their advances. And it
was not until the merry princess was
safely at home that her identity was
disclosed to the house party.
Another member of England’s royal
family who has an alias or incognito is
her royal highness the Duchess of Con
naught. Upon nearly every journey she
assumes the name of Countess of Sussex
and carefully guards it.
The emperor of Austria is also the
happy possessor of an alias. His jour
neyings are made as Count Hohenembs.
This is his strictest incognito and one
that is very little known beyond his pal
ace and suit.
The empress of Austria, his consort,
seconds him on the matter of an alias
and cloaks her royal self in the unro
mantic sounding name of Elizabeth
Nicholson. There is a romance behind
the name. As the empress once had a
favorite. lady’s maid, she perpetuates
her attachment in the incognito.
The king of Belgium travels as the
Comte de Ravenstein, and this alias is
known from one end of Europe to the
other. It is especially well known in
Paris.
Although Wiljiam, emperor of Ger
many, is ready to do deeds bizarre, any
thing, in fact, to prove himself fin de
siecle to the last cry, it is not apparent
that he has an alias. He probably pre
fers to go up and down the world, his
empire, as William, emperor. But his
two sons, Princes William and Eitel
Fritz, have traveling names. They ar
rive at and depart from railroad stations
as Counts of Ravensberg. Prince Victor
Napoleon is the Count Montfort off many
hostelry registers. Os late he has trav
eled extensively under that name.
George B. Fife.
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in search of an American beauty, for the
United States has become famous
throughout the world. The American
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Time For Thanksgiving.
The end of harvest time is universal
ly set apart for thanksgiving. Whether
in the form of the American Thanksgiv
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the Scotch Halloween,, the. Hebrew
Feast of Tabernacles, the Roman festi
val in honor of the goddess Ceres or the
Greek festival in honor of Demeter, the
instinct prompting it is the same. Since
men first became tillers of the ground
their two greatest annual events have
been seedtime and harvest.—New York
Sun.
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It is a day for the dreams and the ideals
of youth and maiden. It is a day for
youth away from home to freshen their
hopes and kindle anew their aspirations
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