Brooklyn, N. Y., Annual Amateur Handicap. Daly’s Assembly Rooms, March 10–22d.—Average of tournament (five games apiece), 5.10.
| W. | R. | Av. | G. A. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. R. Townsend (500) | 4 | 257 | 17.24 | 9.83 |
| Dr. H. D. Jennings (300) | 3 | 91 | 8.57 | 4.73 |
| Frank A. Keeney (300) | 3 | 135 | 5.77 | 5.49 |
| Herbert S. Haskell (500) | 2 | 171 | 9.43 | 6.65 |
| Wm. H. Barnard (350) | 1 | 56 | 3.50 | 3. |
| George Moulton (275) | 1 | 39 | 3.44 | 2.90 |
J. Schaefer vs. J. F. B. McCleery. San Francisco, May 29th, 30th, 31st.—$200 a side, 3000 points, Schaefer giving odds of discount, 4½ × 9, c. b. S., 3000 (winning score)—average, 751 in actual score (3004)—run, 3000; McC., 15—run, 13.
F. C. Ives vs. McCleery. Same city, same table, a day or two later, Ives conceding 1000 for a stake of $250 a side. Ives, 3000—176.46—982; McC., 1748—717.
Nothing could more fitly close the chronicle of regular three-ball caroms than those McCleery matches. For other than amateurs or rising professionals, the game had lacked approval ever since the spring of 1879. Several of the contests after that were designed chiefly to surpass the “run” and “average” records of one or two professionals earlier in the wonder-working field; and so lamentably did the unrestricted game decline that first-class players, avoiding one another to the neglect of championships, welcomed matches with fourth or fifth-rate ones on 4½ × 9 tables.
Kerkau vs. McLaughlin. Daly’s Room, N. Y. City, purse games. August 16–21st.—McLaughlin, 6000—run, 1290; K., 4749, total. Sept. 6–11th.—Kerkau, 6000—run, 1355; McL., 4520—run, 1349. Averages in both were light for the high runs.