Show ROBERTS THE British billiard champion cham-pion has sufficiently recovered from his astonishment at being defeated by young IVES the American to challenge him to another contest of 60DO or 12000 points under the same conditions as before 1 except where the balls are jammed they are to be spotted The Englishplayers it seems are not up on the nursing I system They playa fourball game with i six pock3ts in tho table a carom mark ling 2 and a pocket 3 points misses counting count-ing one each for the adversary Now the Englishman will get his cueball on a line with the spotball and keep on pocketing the latter till the cows come home Therois no delicacy of touch required re-quired as in the nursing carom IJ and one kind of shot is as monotonous as the other to the spectator A run of 2510 pbints such as IVES made before he purposely pur-posely broke up the balls is no doubt a great exhibition of steady nerve and patient work but it is very tiresome to the lookeron and particularly was it so to the friends of ROBERtS For the galleries gal-leries there is nothing prettier than the American threeball twocushion carom game THE REJECTION at the Worlds fair art department of Artist ANDERSONS picture pic-ture illustrating the scriptural verses 1 to 11 of the eighth chapter of JOHN has given rise to much interesting discussion The popular title of this picture is The Woman Taken in Adultery but the painter insists that the sentence Neither do I condemn thee is the correct one as it brings out the moral sought to be inculcated in-culcated There arc three panels in the piece which is a canvass 20x12 feet The first panel fhows the entrance of the temple tem-ple at Jerusalem with the woman led by a slave and guarded by a Roman soldier The central panel shows the Pharisees turning away disgusted when CHRIST utters the words Let him that is without with-out sin cast the first stone f the populace ready with missiles to attack her The third panel has CHRIST saying to the woman Neither do I condemn thee TherQ are in the picturo nineteen 1ifc size figures Prof IVES chief of the art department de-partment says it was not the theme nor the question of nudity that induced the turning 01 the picture to the wall bat its I artistic unworthiness Indeed ho says it is not a nude picture but did not meet the standard requirements It seems an outside jury of ministers saw the painting and invited ANDERSON to hang it in their institute so it caunot be so cry bad The controversy mates a good advertisement in case ANDERSON wants to exhibit thework for money |