Clubmen Made Desperate by Ties. October.—The 14:2 tournament of the Olympic Club, San Francisco, ended in a first-place tie of four out of seven—Dr. O. B. Burns, F. L. Taylor, J. J. Roggan, and W. Franklin. The first three tied again, shutting out Franklin; and after tieing again and again, they played once three-handed, which summarily cut the Gordian knot thus—Taylor, Burns, and Roggan. In the tournament proper, Burns had made high average (5.77), and Franklin the high run (42).
Revival of 8:2 in New Orleans. Capt. John Miller’s Room, October 22d to November 16th.—Louis Abrams and George H. Miller, the two “scratchmen,” were first and second among six. Best runs and averages: Abrams’s 8.33 and 46, and Miller’s 7.14 and 57.
Following week, same game, match for $50, best in three nights. Abrams made the more points, but Miller won the three nights, averaging 5.88 as his best, and running 48 to Abrams’s 29 for high.
Knickerbocker A. C.’s Championship of 14:2. N. Y. City, beginning December 26th and recordable chiefly because of the winner’s having the unexampled privilege of “keeping warm” in the depth of winter by playing all his games one after another without interregnum, which necessarily had to deprive the remaining games of interest. Contestants: Chas. S. Norris, J. A. Hendrick, Dr. A. B. Miller, Dr. L. L. Mial, and Albro Akin. Best general average, 5.77 by the winner-in-chief, Norris.
1901.
Championship of the N. A. A. B. P. First tournament, under the patronage of the Hanover Club, Brooklyn, N. Y., for the Brooklyn Eagle’s Gold Cup, but the third annual one of the Association, Brooklyn, N. Y., January 14–26th. Arthur R. Townsend won play-off. Average of tournament, 5.96. Three tied on high run, and the other three were not far from virtually tieing on general average. Such closeness, practicable for any grade of performers at any form of cushion caroms, is phenomenal at 14:2 balkline for players of the speed of these.
| W. | R. | Av. | G. A. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Townsend | 4 | 69 | 8.11 | 6.26 |
| Keeney | 4 | 46 | 7.32 | 6.04 |
| E. W. Gardner | 3 | 52 | 8.33 | 6.80 |
| Stark | 3 | 50 | 7.89 | 5.83 |
| Poggenburg | 1 | 50 | 9.68 | 5.85 |
| F. C. Gardner | 0 | 50 | 4.71 |