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Modern Billiards / A Complete Text-Book of the Game, Containing Plain and Practical Instructions How to Play and Acquire Skill at This Scientific Amusement

Chapter 195: 1897.
By Benjamin Garno
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A comprehensive manual treats billiards as a disciplined recreational skill, beginning with historical context and equipment and room considerations. It offers systematic, illustrated instruction in cue handling, shot-making, cushion play, and a wide range of game variants and scoring methods, including carom and pool forms. Practical chapters cover evolving techniques, table and cloth care, selection and use of cues, and strategies for counting and position play. Additional sections explain rules, tournament conduct, and competitive records, aiming to guide readers from basic shots to advanced, repeatable strokes through diagrams and methodical practice advice.

1897.

All Tie in Pittsburg, Pa., Tournament of Shortstops. Davis’s Room, February 27th to March 6th.—14:2 without anchor, $1,000 in 40, 30, 20, and 10 per cent. divisions, 400–point games. Average of tournament, approximately 12.70. In play-off, Sutton beat both, and Spinks, running 187 and averaging 40, put third prize upon Gallagher.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Sutton 3 88 22.22 12.  
Spinks 3 138 36.36 11.90
Gallagher 3 100 27.   17.16
McLaughlin 2 78 15.39 11.78
Maggioli 2 99 13.33 10.14
Catton 2 97 22.22 13.41

Same Players, Plus John Matthews, in Chicago. Under the auspices of and at Clarence E. Green’s Imperial Room, April 6th.—Same game and the like prize-money. In playing off, Catton won by 600 to 478, but Spinks topped the shortstop record with a run of 197. Maggioli’s 28 is either a losing average or an error. Average of tournament, 14.65.

W. R. Av. G. A.
Spinks 5 167 18.18 15.50
Catton 5 158 23.50 16.75
Sutton 4 169 30.77 21.10
McLaughlin 3 99 17.39 13.33
Gallagher 2 95 21.   15.50
Maggioli 1 107 28.   13.  
Matthews 1 118 15.   9.80

Hugo Kerkau’s American Debut. Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, July 5–10th.—Purse game, 300 points of 14:2 nightly. K., 1800; Morningstar, 1523.

Same place and terms, July 19–24th.—McLaughlin, 1800; K., 1702.

First World’s Championship at 18:1. Madison Square Garden Concert Hall, N. Y. City, November 20th–December 4th.—Emblem and $1,200 in cash, both presented by the B. B. C. Co., added to $500 in entrance fees and to the net receipts. Average of tournament, four 500–point games apiece, 8.89.

W. R. Av. G. A.
G. F. Slosson ($1466.50) 4 97 12.20 9.39
J. Schaefer ($879.90) 3 85 15.45 9.25
F. C. Ives ($586.60) 2 140 31.25 14.95
M. Daly 1 73 8.20 7.18
Geo. Sutton 0 53   6.09

SCHAEFER DEFEATS SLOSSON. Same hall, February 5, 1898.—First match for championship and $500 a side. Schaefer, 600—7.46—76; Slosson, 596—34.

IVES DEFEATS SCHAEFER. Central Music Hall, Chicago, April 4, 1898.—Second and last match. I., 600—15—91; S., 426—90.

As there was no challenge outstanding, and as Ives declined the emblem without waiting to qualify as champion, it reverted, under the rules, to its donors, and there was no 18:1 championship again until December, 1901.