Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-12-15 | Page 22 | Hoppe Will Soon be Busy

HOPPE HI WilL SOON Of BE BUSY Joy oy Billiard Champion Wants to Meet Both and Schaefer New Nw Y rk Dec Dee 14 The return to this country of If Willie W Hoppe Is expected to cause A stir stu in local billiard circles There have been no big matches In New SeV York this fall and until Hoppe announced ed that he was wae coming back to regain his old title there was little prospect of any an Hoppes first opponent will probably Ibe be George The Boy Wonder wants to meet Sutton and Schaefer as soon as possible but as Albert Cutler has lias already challenged the winner of the balk line match between Schaefer Schaefer fer and Sutton at Chicago next month there seems teems to be no chance of the lad playIng a championship match before March or April has Intimated that he will challenge Hoppe Immediately for an anSI SI match Of OC course this would not be bech bech ch match but it would be beg OJ g attraction The veteran has beon been Steadily Improving his hl game and thinks he will be bo as good as he h ever was ns in two wo ViO or three weeks Hoppe won the title from In this city two years ago and defended it successfully until llast last spring when he hp relinquished the Ittle tItle tale and sailed for Europe In Ms his game with the young oung te ter performed brilliantly while Sloe on an appeared nervous and unsteady If It l losson can do as well in a match as does 1 In practice he should give foppe oppe oppe a much better argument this thise lime m e