First Continuous Pool Tournament. Daly’s, Brooklyn, January 30th to February 9th.—$50 entrance, games, 150 balls. Frey and Malone tied for first, and Malone lost play-off. Albert G. Powers was third, Daniel Lawlor fourth, De Oro fifth, Manning sixth, and Knight seventh and last.
Wm. Clearwater’s First Tournament. Grand Billiard Hall, Syracuse, N. Y., February 20th to March 3d, continuous pool. De Oro and Clearwater tied for first and second, Malone and Powers for third and fourth, Manning won fifth, Myron Eggleston, George Kuntzsch, Dankleman and Wharton tied for sixth, and Louis Shaw was last. Clearwater defeated De Oro, but Malone and Powers did not play off.
Powers vs. De Oro. Hub Billiard Palace, Boston, Mass., May 1–3d.—Best in 101 games of pyramid on a 4½ × 9.—$300. P., 51; De Oro, 35.
1889.
Fifth Championship Series. Hardman Hall, N. Y. City, February 25th to March 2d.—Continuous pool, 100 balls up, for the B. B. C. Co.’s Challenge Emblem and money prizes. Frey, De Oro, and Malone tied as the first three, Clearwater and Manning tied for fourth and fifth, and King came next and last after forfeiting to Manning. The first three ties were played off in Daly’s Assembly Rooms, Brooklyn, March 11–16th, 300 balls, 150 per night, and resulted in Frey first and De Oro second.
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES FROM 1889 TO 1904. By rule, 200 balls nightly for $150 a side and the emblem. Albert Frey having died suddenly of pneumonia, the first match was between De Oro and Manning, and was played at Daly’s, Brooklyn, June 20–22, 1889, De Oro winning by 600 to 564.
Same hall, April 10–12, 1890.—De Oro, 600; Manning, 565.