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Show YIGJfAUX COMES WITH HIS CUE. Sick of the Sea, But Hopeful That He Will Soon be in Form. Among the passengers that arrived on board of the steamer "Normandie" in New York the other day, was Maurice Vignaux, the celebrated French billiard-ist. billiard-ist. He" comes to this country to enter into several tournaments; in which Slos-son Slos-son and Schafer will be his principal opponents. oppo-nents. Vignaux is accompanied by his wife.' He complained bitterlv of the roughness of the voyage, being sick, he" said, for the greater part of the trip. The first, game in which he will take part will be the tournament in Chicago next month for money prizes offered by the Chicago Roomkeepers' Association, lhe game is to be the fourteen-inch balk line, and Vignaux says he knows but little lit-tle about that frame. Vmm r; i. goes to St. Louis, where he plays for one night against Schaefer and Slosson. He then returns to New York to take part in the handicap tournament to be played ! there m December. He said, in reply to the reporter's inquiry regarding his form that he had. been playing very good . billiards bil-liards while in Paris, and that he hoped to begin his practice as soon as he recovered recov-ered from the effects of his sea trip |