109 run in 1200 (non-championship)—L. Rérolle, Paris, France, 1904.
12.24 average in 1200 (non-championship)—L. Rérolle, Paris, 1904.
IRREGULAR CONTESTS
Ives vs. John Roberts. Henley’s Circus, London, Eng., May 29th to June 2, 1893.—$5,000 a side, 1,000 points nightly. I., 6000—run, 2540; R., 3821—run, 249. Roberts’s total has been variously given. The figures here are from Major Broadfoot’s “Billiards.”
This was styled a “compromise match” at the English winning-and-losing game on an English 6 × 12 six-pocket table.
CENTRAL MUSIC HALL. Chicago, September 18–23.—$5,000 a side. Ives, 6000; Roberts, 5303.
LENOX LYCEUM. N. Y. City, October 2–7th.—$5,000 a side, R., 10,000; I., 8738.
De Oro vs. Roberts. On October 16–21st following, at Madison Square Garden, N. Y. City, these experts played alternately on an English and an American ball-pool table for an announced stake of $1,000 a side and the championship of the world, De Oro winning by 1000 balls to 927. No two players can ever be justified in creating a championship.