Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 22, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 27 November 1897 — Page 3

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WITH CUE AND BALLS

EXPERTS TO BE FURTHER RESTRICTED,

BILLIARD

There Will Be Little Nursing and No Anchoring or Bail Play at the Cominc Tournament In New York A Great

Contest. [Special Correspondence.]

Njew York, Nov.

22.—The billiard

tour jament which begins at Madison Bqo Jb Garden Monday evening, Nov, 29, md continues through the week will undoubtedly prove one of the most interesting contests with the cue and ball that have been witnessed for several years past Not only will the cleverest experts of the world contest in these events, but the rules which have heretofore governed championship contests 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 coming tournament are simply the result of endeavors by such players as Blosfon, Schaefer and Ives to keep the game itself 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 imposed, in the form of rules tending to do away with the possibilities of extended runs by any player in competition, have served their purpose but a short time. It required but a few months of practice in each instance for

Chalk Line-Urn from cushion

Balls at anchor 7-T+

1 4—Anchor spaces

Years ago. soon after the pocket was succeeded by the all rail table, four balls wero decided to bo too many upon a table at one time, and the throe ball gamo was adopted. Very soon, however, tho leading experts learned the trick of anchoring the balls in the corner of the table and by driving the cue bull backward and forward across tho faccs of tho anchored balls to continue their play so long as they were ablo to stand at the table. To prevent this tbe "champion'h jnune" was devised, in which chalk lines were drawn upon the cloth from tho side to the end rails, thus forming a triangular space at each corner in which the number of points that could bo counted in a single run, without first driving an object ball across thochalk line, was limited. From this style of gnme was evolved thchnlk line, which with certain important restrictions will bo the game played in the coming tournament.

At first balk line billiards was a hard proposition, even for tho most expert players. Tho lining of the table into nine fjniccs 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 speaking, "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 twills against the cushion on each side of a balk line was mastered, and, each ball thus lying in a different space, tho player was at liberty to drive his cue ball across their faces and count so long as he could hold the balls at anchor. The limit of endurance was family reached when Scbaefer ran out a game in New York city by this method with ft run of 506 points, and Ives followed him at Chicago a season later with a run out of 483. It was then decided to limit the poiuts a player jcould 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 imposition 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 bulk line in the coming contest* Jwill be IS inches from the cushions, but 'one shot will be allowed in balk, and but one point can be counted from the balls at anchor. A glance at the accompany* ing diagram of a table lined for the up to date gamo 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 attempted 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 sensational open table ploy, masse, follow and long draw shots will of necessity be greatly increased, to the end of more nearly equalising the playing strength of the contestants than has seemed practicable heretofore

As to die contestants, they will he those players whose names, styles of play and accomplishments with tho etui well known in every city in the

world where billiards is played. There will he fife players in all—Sloeaon,

Bchaeler, 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 billiards as, recounting the great contests that have taken place in this city, Chicago and Paris, he recalls the enthusiasm awakened by the marvelous execution of Ives, the wonderful brilliancy of Schaefer, the faultless technic of Slosson and the cleverness of Vignaux, Daly, Gamier 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 battle between two such experts. The pretty costumes of the women and the evening dress of the men give eclat to the scene, for a billiard contest between experts in the metropolis is essentially a fashionable event, and the class of spectators present is in every way characteristic of such.

At a great billiard game even' the spectator who does not understand the finer points of p)'* as well as he might catches the enthW^pa and finds his blood tingling with all 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 over 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 points each and will be played on a table of regulation size. There will be three prizes, the cash being derived from $100 entry fees, $1,250 added by the Bruns wick-Balke-Collender company, and the net box office receipts. Entries closed Nov. 7. W. L.

London,Nov.

TARI.K 8UKFACE AS IT WILL BK LINED FOR TlIK OAME8. tliefio wizards of the cue to overcome the handicap imposed, and, presto, they wero as clover as ever and fully as likely 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 additional restrictions to bo levied, for no prob ability is more undesirable in a match game or tournament at billiards than that of ouo of the contestants getting the balls in hand at an early stage of the game and running out his string while his competitor sits helplessly by and Hees the content ended.

Palmer.

ALIASES OF ROYALTY.

Kmperorn, King*, Queens and Princes Travel Under Assumed Names. [Special Correspondence.]

15.—The word "alias"

has to a majority of people an unpleasantly 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 ouo 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 Europe. There is always a certain amount of commotion when royalty goes gadding, and a pretty hurly burly might ensue at the railroad stations if the populace 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 aro one and the some. She, however, does not always uso that alias. Occasionally when traveling she goes under tho 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 graciousness of his manner is such as to make the alias all the more impenetrable. One would not hesitate in a moment of desperation to ask Mr. Moulton for a match or the time of day.

Tho Princess Maud has always had a strange passion for traveling about incognito. Upon these occasions she adopts, as a rule, tho name Miss Mills.

Somo 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 newcomer by a chaperon whoso position was an unimpeachable 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 before every man in the house was at her feet.

With tho 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 Hohenemba. 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 unromantic 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 Oomte de fUvenstein, and this alias Is known from one end of Europe to the other. It is especially well known in Paris.

Although William, emperor of Germany, is ready to do deeds bizarre, anything, in fact, to prove himself fin de clecle to the last cry, it hi not apparent that he has an alias. He probably prefers to go up and down the world, his empire, as William, emperor. But his two sons, Princes William and Eftel Frits, have traveling names. They arrive at and depart from railroad stations as Counts of Ravensbexg. Prince Victor Napoleon is the Count Montfort of many hostelry registers. Of late he has traveled extensively under that name. soros B, Font

The English and the French.

It has been the writer's fate to live a good d«sl on both sides of the English channel, and nothing is more amusing than to hear the absurdities that are gravely asserted by each of their neighbors. To an Englishman a Frenchman will always be "a tiger or monkey" of Carlyle, while to the French mind English gravity is oflly hypocrisy to cover every vice. Nothing pleases him so much as a great scandal in England, and he will gleefully bring you the paper containing the account to prove how true is his opinion. It is quite useless to explain (as the writer has often tried) to the British mind that Frenchmen do not all pass their lives drinking absinth on the boulevards, and as Englishmen (as Max O'Rell says) seem to leave their morals in a valise at Dover when off for a short visit to Paris, to he picked up on their return, it would be time lost trying to make a Gaul understand what good husbands and fathers they are.

These two great nations always seem to stand in the relation to each other that Rome and Greece held. Our English cousins are the great conquerors of the world, the great colonizers, with a vast capital in which wealth and misery jostle each other in the streets a hideous conglomeration of buildings and monuments, without form and void, very much as old Rome must have been under the Caesars, enormous buildings without taste, and enormous wealth, while the French seem to have inherited the temperament of the Greeka The drama, painting and sculpture are the preoccupation of the people The yearly exhibitions are almost the unique subject of conversation in drawing room or club The state protects the artist and buys his work. Their "conservatories" form the singers and their schools the painters and architects of Europe and America—idler in New York Post. .w,.

Greco-Turkish Strategy and Football. The strategic position of the Greek and Turkish armies in the late campaign was out little more complicated than the strategic position of two football teams when they are lined up for a scrimmage When the game began, the Greeks had possession of the ball, and they rushed it into Turkish territory, where they lost it almost immediately on a fumble, and after that the Turks drove them rapidly down tho field, going around their ends and breaking through their center very much as they pleased.

The Greeks were outnumbered three to one, but there are many people who think that they would have run away even had the number of men on both sides been equal. There is, however, no way of proving that they would have done this, while it can be proved that they were outnumbered and were nearly always for that reason attacked as strongly on the flank as in the front. This fact should be placed to their credit side in summing up their strange conduct. If an eleven from Princeton played three elevens from Yale at the same time, one can see that the game would hardly be interring, and to carry out the simile still further and then to drop it, it was as though this Princeton eleven was untrained and had no knowledge of tricks or of team play, and absolutely no regard for its captain as a captain.—RicharH Harding Davis in Harper's Magazine.

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The Cattle of

Arbela, which gave its name to the third great battle between Alexander and Darins, is a town in the Turkish viilayet of Kurdistan, on the caravan route between Bagdad and Mosul, about 40 miles southeast of the latter city The battle, however, was not really fought at Arbela. but at a place 80 miles distant,

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Rapid Change.

"My hair turned from raven black to coowy white in a single night" 'That's nothing 1 went in to a pawsbroker's shop once and stayed only 15 minutes. When 1 came oat, my watch bad turned from gold to silver."—LonI den Tit-Bits.

'A When Man Is Dangerous.

It is a singular fact, yet one substantiated by statistics, that most crime is committed in New York by men 29 years old. This is not only true of the lesser, but also of the greater crimes, although a man is presumed to be at that period of his life not only in the zenith of his physical powers, but also in full and complete possession of his mental strength, vrith a complete appreciation of right aud wrong and their respective consequences. This condition is a problem which has not been solved by the student of criminology, and one which is made the more complex by the fact that the ages of 21, 27 and 45 years nearly equal it, with the intervening years showing afar less percentage of crime

It is indeed peculiar that the criminal tendency should be so strong at 29, with no such inclination, so far as criminal statistics show, in as great a degree for the succeeding 16 years and then another outburst of the animal in man.

This condition is found to be true by actual figures, and as all statistical computations at which average conditions are sought to be determined are arrived at by this method, so may the student of this subject as well as the insurance magnate who bases his rates on the general average of losses in proportion to the risks taken, and does so with full safety, employ it in solving the problem before him.—Chicago Times-Herald.

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Ingenuity In the Cabin.

During ono of his journeys a famous traveler cam*) to a lonely cabin and found the door wide open. In the center of the room he entered he found a cradle, in whi:h an infant was reclining fast asleep. The cradle was rocking with surprising regularity, but no sign of what propelled it could be seen/

The traveler's curiosity was aroused. He went to the cradle and found a stout cord attached to a nail driven in the side of it. The cord, he found, passed through an auger hole in the side of the house.

He took up the trail, which soon led him into a ravine, where a donkey was standing and switching his tail. The mystery was explaned. The other end of the cord was attached to the ass' tail, and the constant switching of its caudal appendage furnished motive power sufficient to rock the oradle.—London Telegraph. ,,

A Little Testimonial. S

"How do you like your new typewriter?" inquired the agent. "It's grand," was the immediate and enthusiastic response. "I wonder how I ever got aloug without it." "Well, would you mind giving me a testimonial to that effect?" ,.,t "Certainly not. Do it gladly."

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Thanks, said the agent and moved jquickly away—Pearson's Weekly.^ "5 _________

Day's Journey.

"A day's journey," as the expression is used in the Scripture, means from 10 to 20 miles. The "Sabbath day's journey," frequently mentioned in the Bible, was 2,000 paces, or about threequarters of a mile. The Jews were forbidden to travel farther than this distance on their Sabbath, but often evaded the prohibition by taking a small quan tity of food and burying it in the ground at the required distance from their homes, whereby this spot became tech nically a habitation, and they could proceed from it another Sabbath day's journey on thoir way.

The Local Ftfcvdr.

An American who bad left bis native couutry to travel in Europe with the maxim, "When in Rome do as the Romans do, well in mind, found him self in Marseilles. He wanted some ice cream and went into a restaurant and ordered it •»5 «.§ "What flavor will you have?" asked the waiter.

Tbe American hesitated a moment and theti remembered bis maxim*"Oh, garlic, 1 suppose," he answered. —Youth's Companion.

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There is a Class of People

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