1876.

Slosson vs. Sexton. Foley’s Room, Chicago, September 17th.—Purse game, 5½ × 11 four-pocket table, counting in the old way. Slosson, 2000—33.33—356; Sexton, 1730—257. [The night before they had played the three-ball game on the same table. Slosson, 600—8.22—137; Sexton’s total, 278.]

Those games were not matches, and are not records. Not being matches, they furnished no line at all as to Old Billiards vs. New. This is the final four-ball chronicle as to professed experts of standing. The revival of contests on pocketless tables, tested as early as 1860, and abandoned outside of Philadelphia as too repressive of “safety,” or generalship, had brought the game into disesteem for spectacular uses. So small a table as a 5 × 10 for that way of going was almost a burlesque of competitive billiards in the hands even of approximate masters; and yet it remained for four-ball caroms to be played, although by an inferior class of experts in the remoter West, on a 4½ × 9 carom!

BEST RECORD PERFORMANCES AT FOUR-BALL CAROMS
IN MATCHES FOR A GENERAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

BEST AVERAGES ON 6 × 12 FOUR-POCKET TABLE.

166.67 in 1500, jawing barred, pushing allowed—J. McDevitt, 1868 (see series under 1863).

25.86 in 1500, push and jaw allowed—J. Dion, 1866 (see series under 1863).

BEST RUNS ON 6 × 12 FOUR-POCKET TABLE.

1458, jaw barred, push allowed—J. McDevitt, 1868.

616, due to jawing—J. Dion, 1867. (See series under 1863 for both.)

BEST AVERAGES ON 5½ × 11 FOUR-POCKET TABLE.

40.54 in 1500, push and jaw barred—C. Dion, 1876.

31.25 in 1500, push and jaw barred—A. Garnier, 1873. (See series under 1869 for both.)

RUNS ON 5½ × 11 FOUR-POCKET TABLE.

321 by C. Dion, 1872; 279 by A. P. Rudolphe, 1870; and 249 by Maurice Daly, 1873—all push and jaw barred. (See series under 1869.)

PUBLIC CONTESTS NOT FOR GENERAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

BEST AVERAGES ON 6 × 12 SIX-POCKET TABLE.

12.20 in 2000—Michael Phelan, 1859.

17.24 in 1500—John McDevitt, 1863.

10.00 in 1500, push and massé barred—Dudley Kavanagh, 1862.

BEST RUNS ON 6 × 12 SIX-POCKET TABLE.

177 by Dudley Kavanagh, 157 by John Seereiter, and 129 by Michael Phelan, all in 1859.

90, push and massé barred—Michael Foley, 1862.

BEST AVERAGES ON 6 × 12 FOUR-POCKET TABLE.

8.40 in 1000, push and jaw barred—Michael Phelan, 1864.

166.67 (by jawing and pushing)—John McDevitt, 1868.

BEST RUNS ON 6 × 12 FOUR-POCKET.

56, push and jaw barred—Michael Phelan, 1864.

1483, by jawing and pushing—John McDevitt, 1868.

BEST AVERAGES ON A 5½ × 11 FOUR-POCKET.

42.86 in 1200, push and jaw barred—Frank Parker, 1870.

BEST RUNS ON A 5½ × 11 FOUR-POCKET.

492, push and jaw barred—Melvin Foster, 1869.

327, push and jaw barred—Maurice Daly, 1871.

315, push and jaw barred—J. Dion and A. P. Rudolphe, 1870.

BEST AVERAGES ON A CAROM TABLE.

15.38 in 1200, push and crotch barred, size 6 × 12—Victor Estephe, 1865.

25.00 in 1500, push barred, crotching allowed, but none done, size 5½ × 11, 25
16 balls—Dudley Kavanagh, 1865.

39.47 in 750, push barred, but average due to crotching, 5½ × 11, 25
16 balls—J. Dion, 1866.

33.33 in 1500, crotch barred, push allowed, 6 × 12—E. H. Nelms, 1867.

1000 in 1000, push and crotch allowed, 5½ × 11—Melvin Foster, 1869.

32.26 in 1000, push allowed, crotch barred, 5½ × 11 table, $500 a side—W. W. Wright, Virginia City, N. T., December 11, 1868. Loser, C. A. W. Jamison, who was given odds of discount, averaged 51.23 in his total of 1537.

93.75 in 1500, 5½ × 11, crotch barred—M. Daly, 1871.

BEST RUNS ON CAROM TABLE

543, crotching barred, push allowed, 6 × 12—E. H. Nelms, 1867.

297, by crotching on a 5½ × 11—J. Dion, 1866.

1000 (whole game), by pushing and crotching, 5½ × 11—Melvin Foster, 1869.

BEST AVERAGE IN TOURNAMENT.

100 in 300, 5½ × 11 four-pocket, no restrictions—M. Foster, 1867.

Note.—No account has been taken here of either tournament games or matches on any table smaller than a 5½ × 11, which was the first-class professionals’ limit.