Three-handed 18:2. Louis Bensinger’s Room, Chicago, week ending September 2d.—Games played in double sessions. Clem E. Ellison won, defeating both George Wheeler and Frank Maggioli, who came out even. Wheeler made highest run (120) and average (21.40), but it was against Maggioli. Against the safer Ellison, who won by 600 to 523, he could not reach 9.50. Maggioli lost to Ellison by 449 to 600.
Amateur Championship at 14:2. Challenge match, 4½ × 9 table, West Hotel, Minneapolis, about September 7th.—Ed. Huyck (champion), 200—5.26—30; W. F. Thayer, 142—26.
Maurice Daly’s Class A Handicap at 18:2. N. Y. City, October 2–7th.—H. A. Coleman (240) was first; J. Ferd. Poggenburg (300), second; Wm. Gershel (240), third; and Dr. Walter G. Douglas (240), fourth. Poggenburg, whom Coleman defeated by 240 to 232 in the opening game, made the highest three runs of the tourney, 60, 73, and 54, and also the highest average, 12, first against Douglas, and again in defeating Gershel. Coleman’s 44 was the fourth highest run, and his 8.57 the highest average next to Poggenburg’s 12. Gershel’s winning average was 5.33. The general averages were: Poggenburg, 8.95; Coleman, 6.05; Gershel, 5.72; Douglas, 4.88.
Class B 14:2 in San Francisco. “The Savoy,” September and October.—Won by George Kennedy. High average, 10, was made by Wm. Maguire. Within a few days, these two played 1,000 up at Jas. F. Morley’s Rooms, Kennedy winning by 31 and averaging 6.90.
Handicap 14:2 in Portland, Ore. J. G. Reddick’s Room, September and October.—W. F. Lowry, A. Clark, W. R. Cody, and J. Mayer played 250 to C. B. Hansen’s 160. When last heard from here, Lowry or Clark should have been winner-in-chief.