How to Play Billiards, the Great Indoor Game;

v&mammejA zr: " ; h .sg'y r 'J' I H . 7 TAB WABJNGTOS HBlj4tI,. StPftA,?, JANUARY 17, 1915. Jimmy Mulligan May Coach the Track Team at Catholic University M How to Play the Great J Quality When You See the An- Billiards, Indoor Game; nouncement that Lessons Gleaned from Work of World's Cracks McConville Beginner Is First Told How Clothes are Game Is Played, Then In TWO OF CONEY ISLAND'S SNOWBIRDS structed How to Play It ' ' ' . Reduced Br J. CLIN'TOJf RANSOM. We have witnessed in Washington this it is time to make up your mind season three series of games by the a&MWZr jimms Champion Billiard Players' League; we r irr to get another suit. have seen the veterans, Frank Sherman wiwrr and Alfredo Do Oro, pitted against one another in pocket billiards, and several High-Cla-ss tournaments in balk-lin- e And pocket bil- All liards are in progress or are to be staffed ' before summer. It seems fit, therefore, with this growing interest in billiards to record a few observations about the pIIksj r "gentleman's game." SUITS First, billiards, whether straight-rai- l, balk-lin- e, three-cushion- s, or pocket billiards, is one of the finest of indoor games, and ought to be cultivated much game Is '". Jr l lj." T"ilL .. ' BsiOssSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsEssSsK1 ' lff"Tljil I more generally than It is. The r UttJtittTrJlV&CdsJSK T t0 J H ill' ''llltfn I w $35.00 not only a most interesting sport, but it is one of great possibilities in the war PrgMrrara5ffCT.r,g istmrcEsOssMsssssssl'' i m 'otftiBBBWMMwnMM Yfif skill, accuracy, and scientific execu- 5 IImBSBSBMBSMSi'T iMlSMBti Mil iM ijiTJSm M I U9 I Vi tiT MtssmssssssssssssBsaSillllilJ us SBjssb ' H ' BSSSSSSSSMnspWTTliiTWss BwMssMWwSBSSBHI'11 BSSBSWSMST aHUT ".43uatfsm69HBBSBTSESSBBBBBBBBBBBk.Mi 'AStssSl Tli of 'siW McConville clothes tion. I would not concede greater skill are far or science to the coif, tennis, or baseball mous for their perfection of fit player than to the billiard player who i really masters the game or acquires sucn KKIIIIIIIIIIHMMIIIIMLSIrasra!3iiffigp and tailoring and their durability. mastery as to play respectably well. And strange enough, when it came to organ- A McConvillellirSuit will last from one to three seasons longer than izing the champion billiard players of m America into a leasrue to play in the lBilg9ilRP9HGHniHIIIHHHHHHs the average. various cities, only nine men could be found in balk-lin- e to Join It. Three- - cushion billiards might marshil a greater Full-Dre- number, ns pocket billiard undoubtedly ss and Cutaway Suits a Specialty. would, but at best the number of men who are accounted masters in billiards Is ri- diculously small considering the univer- sality and excellence of the game. lloiv the Cnme I Played. Billiards is now played on a flat' table 10 by feet, covered with green Jas.D. McConville cloth, the rails of the table being of elac-ticl- ty This picture looks as if it were taken at Palm Beach San Diego, rubber to furnish the necessary or but it wasn't. The scene is good old Coney Island, New York State, and the time is January. 1915 The two balls, -- w . w for the balls. Three ivory rMV j j t, .wss..w .i auwut xju ivgiccb x'rfiircnuwi arc niumucrb oi mc onuwoira viud, wno Dcueve in cnioymff tne surt Mb days in the vear. when it Merchant Tailor are used in the game, each 2.75 inches i nnr7 frvr. warm in diameter, and. according to the 208-1- 1 Woodward BIdg. quality of the ivory, weighing about Phone M. 5001. 7 1- -2 ounces. The balls are propelled by cues made of wood with leather tips, the weight of the cue varying from 15 Knockout Brennen Is Ready for Jimmy Mulligan May to II ounces, according to the predelec-tio- n of the player. In pocket billiards fifteen object balls and one cue ball is Tuesday's used. 'The pocket billiard table is 5 by Big Bout withMiller Coach C. U. Track Team 10 feet, and has pockets at each corner A and midway of the .side rail?, into which Buffalo Slugger Expects to the balls are propelled. The billiard Former Hilltop Tutor Likely na MIDDLE-WEIGH- & Ra.Ave. equipment, as usually Installed, costs Arrive Here Tomorrow SLUGGING BUFFALO T. for the table $250. the balls $22.50 each, to Be Appointed at Meet- MAY COACH C. 17. ATHLETES and the cue.-- . $5 each, one of the most 1 A.. " 1 n. valuable equipment of any game ana Attendl.ttne tagles ing of the Council This kfA played in Ihic country. Sow, I take it. tliat the average bil- - Oyster Roast. sssssssssssssssssss ' Week. liaid player. In the beginning, ap L il Tbd&&Menu proached the game in a wholly wrong l4ssssssssssss4pWMpY Jj attitude. The champions of all forms ORIOLE IS SSSSSSSSbk. x BOY PRIMED HAS gWjKaLZliV lsiusVssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssH of the game, who have been here this FAMOUS RECORD Choice of Grape Fruit Appetizer, Little Neck Clams or Oysters. season, have demonstrated by their play flBisBW3v-'- Celery. ' that it is first of all a gentle game. Knockout Brennen, the Buffalo slugger, flslllllil.HllHllHI 0jIvm la no slam-bangi- by By JOIL.V A. DUCAX. jSssHllp There them who battles Young Herman Miller, Chicken Consomme en Tasse or Cream of Celery iHioi in billiards or pocket billiards. of For the past three years the Catho aux Croutons. True, they sometimes shoot with force, Baltimore, at the new Ardmore Club lic University students have made Filet of Soles au Gratin. Potatoes Tuesday night intends getting in right Hollandaise. nnd send the balls round and brilliant efforts toward putting the BIsBIt?; 4ssbbbsbbbbbbbbU ssssssssssssssH round th1 table, but Is with Washington fans right off the reel Young Turkey Stuffed, Cranberries. ' this never done by Eagfes' Brooklanders on the map In the track exr-rp- t appearing at the big oyster sbbbbbbbbbbUbsbbbbH sbbbbbUjbbbbbbB sbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbB for a definite purpose, to make and field gante. but the proper facili- sbbH Lima Beans. Mashed a difficult play or pet out of a tight roast tomorrow night Brennen Is a ties' for the game Potatoes, or member of the organizaUon and delights and the right kind psac. .vine snots out or ten by there : of encouragement was not' forthcom- ssMsin .shiitilH.' isslH Half Roasted Red Head Duck. to show a diamond-studde- d fob, the gift ing', masters of the cue are gentle strokes of sslssHiisK'v and the result was the poor show- HPHLst sMH Hominy. made with Infinite and care. the Buffalo Aerie. He was pleased to ing that they have made. Jelly. skill learn of the local blowout and told his Harvey Hut the average young player seems manager But the supporters of the old Red Salad. to costly that he would do his best to get i slsjssmsM0ibVi4rf and Black are coming think that the equipment of here In plenty of time to be a guest Into their own Ice Cream and Cake, or Apple the billiard table is made for about the and fiHBByHk as the athletic council at the Brook- - Pie. purpose to have a chance to meet some of the real as the machine guns we sports Capital. land institute is making preparations ' y LsssssH English Plum Pudding, Brandy Sauce. read so of the JP" ssssssssssssssssBlilssssssBsssSiv&fi pslHsslttsllsilssssssPB to secure coach who sUHHI f Demi Tasse. much about in the European "Brennen will try to land In "Washing- a will not be war. namely, to be handicapped In any way by a ruling used rough and to ton in the afternoon of Monday and be on jK WBBssssssH be beaten about with sledge hammer hand when the Eagles down there have miES3k of the council. stroke and terrific speed. manager, Jimmy Mulligan, who coached the their celebration." writes his VCftMtk. GT. flvisHBBfa sssHsssssssssH Georgetown o i:ny vIth Your Miots. Allle Smith. "He's a loyal Eagle and is (ffiitssHHsk'-BHssss- successful team during always the past two seasons is In line for the This attitude toward the game is wholly willing to do anything for his IHssLsilJslllilIBi Neglect fellow-members- position, Is the Cause ." and it a sure bet that if of wrong, in the young player as (.HlHpaspLsHB well as fifteen-roun- Jimmy is at the head of the sport. the old Nothing is more The d dash between the common than Buffalo C u. will have a real team. Alfred to si-- loud-voic- hltsmlth and the rising middle- in a billiard parlor several lisssssss' ssssssssssssssssBislsssssssssssssssssssc. Stern, former Central High School and young men slamminir the weight from Baltimore will very likely HislBaH'sllHE Association's Forfeit! hall develop Into one of the most thrilling University of Virginia athlete, also has into no kets or lashing them about the bid in for the position, while appli table as though ivory ever staged around Washington. Brennen Mmr-'m'-s-: were steel and is enlarged cations have been received from ono i iibler armor plate. Let ,t be an edition of Knockout Management ba missed? From what has been said that light-weig- or two leading coaches. Did seeri! Brown, the New Tork ht Be- EAY0 BRENNEN. other ,'m Y.M.CA. of the Brookland team tlie usual way of playing billiards, espe- - A meeting of BBBBsfllSsV9ivSBBBV' 5 WTt'IRsfHsPsI I so far Tracy ing bigger and stronger, he packs a The mlddle-welc- ht from NVit Vnun- - the athletic council lallv among young players is wholly the fast Vort Stair, irhn m..V. n.nnn will be held early week an' if not quite, forgotten.

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