Show Bob Ingersoll Plays Pool A stout man about whose fair round face a smile of contentment played continually con-tinually sauntered in a billiard room on lower Broadway yesterday afternoon and picking up a cue from a rack as a weapon and a Staten Island lawyer as an opponent oppo-nent stood up at a pool table and pocketed pock-eted ball after ball with finished ease and skill He talked while he played and before long fifty men were grouped around the table They had overheard excerpts of the talk and identified the in twink stout man as Bob Ingersoll a ling Word got out into the street that IIP vns maninulfitiner a cue and saving lie was manipulating things and dozens of additional bankers and brokers hurried into see what it looked and sounded like Youre a fine player Bob said when he whipped two games off the table with scarcely an effort I tell you what Ill I do If you can beat me Ill pay everything I every-thing The Staten Island lawyer at length won defeats after eleven successive a single game feats amid great cheering Somebody promptly presented Bob with two fresh bouquets of costly flowers and he plunged his hands inhis pocketsexcavated a lot of silver from its depths and settled for everything with a smile that was nearly as big as the pool table pocketsNew York Sun 3d |