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Show EILLIARDISTS TO MEET. j Will Compete for American Champion- f ship Honors. I Tribune Spncial Spoytinz Service. ! CHICAGO, III., Sept. C9. Sbort-stop j billiardists meaning tho half dozen i balk-liners who arc" of that class just below the great Aniericau stars. . Schaofer, Hoppe. Slosson and Sut- I ton are to be given a greater op- j porlunity this season than ever be- , fore. ' ! Arrangements are now being made ! for a tournament, to be known as the. j American champion?hip, to be held in New York early in October for J tho short -btons. Tor this tourney the j Brunswick - Dlake - Collender Company j will offer a 500 challenge emblem, i Assured entries arc Peterson of St. Louis. Harry Clinc of Philadelphia, ' Albert Cutler of Boston, and "Oray j Tom" Gallagher anil Profossor Edward Ed-ward ArcLaughliu of I'cw York. Tho I tournament will be at cighteen-iuch i balk-lino, two shotu in balk and a I mcctiuii of players will soon be held to arrange details. In addition to this tournament a i scrips of inter-stale tourneys will be hold this winter, in which those play- - 1 crs competing for tho B. B. C. emblem em-blem wu be eligible. The two tournaments, tour-naments, while in no way couAicting, ! aM general interest, to billiards. Iho inter-state circuit will be enlarged en-larged to include besides New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia nnd Boston, as ut last reason, the cities of St. Louis, Chicago and Pittsburg and possibly others. |