Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — To Meet Slosson. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

To Meet Slosson.

Lotus Barutel, the French billiard expert, who came to America three months ago with Jacob ow his return from Europe, has been; matched to play George F. Slosson in New York at a date yet to be agreed upon. A deposit of SSOO has been made with a billiard flrm to bind the match, which will be for SI,OOO a side, at eight-een-inch balk line. Mr. Barutel is a native of Toulouse, France, and has been playing billiards professionally for fifteen years. He has met all the well known experts except Slosson. He

has traveled extensively, giving exhibitions and playing matches in Vienna, Berlin, Buda-Pesth, Rome, Carlsbad, St. Petersburg, Brazil. Portugal, Chile, and Mexico, as well asvin the leading academies of France and America. * Baptists of Malden, Mass., are interested in a suit for back salary which has been filed in the courts of Middlesex county by the Rev. James R. Randolph against the trustees of St Luke's Baptist church. Mr. Randolph claima that he entered into a pontract with the defendant trustees of the church on May 10, 1896, agreeing to serve as pastor of the church at a salary of *SO a month. He claims there is now due him the sum of *1,051.44, back salary, and he sues the trustees to recover It.

LOUIS BARUTEL.