| Show rvUUUUININUUUUUUUI1f11VVVVV KING OF BILLIARDS Rtmarkiblo Career of F C Ivcs I the Worlds Greatest Player WAS A WKSTHIIX IUODUCT I Unto a rpll of ochcfe rngnrreJ Ili br of lprep ad Arner lee In Ili 0un II to grMUy la he quntlalml 1C any man wane the dM > ii at tool nyron gained inch nolorlei celebrity middle tlnellon If not absolute popularity In IM brief a period a did Fronts CAN + O1n Ire who died on August M In Metlco I w n when IK had Jut reached with a hope or prolonging a life which was Ionic Hi ally atan end before Marline on that Journey In the entire hUtory uf bit Uinl to far as lt > history U I known from the Confoeilona or 81 Augustine down lu today then has been no man who wa 10 favored with profea lonal advantages an was lrOllct C eve and ho man an III yellow the honor favors and lurtcelea which hut b n Ironed an hn for years o did Fnn Is C Iv Ilwit his grl frlunel hav been i dlarrad br Thomas 1Iy at a period 1 Of Hm when 1011111 In this country threaten to doe out for want of new life or young and fresh bl od among our profoaalonal experts Krauk hoes Nan a weer1n pr duet arm Jphn creahanln Howling 1M tarn I Io file farm he was practically aa mining and vlgoruua aa a young ado IIU I latent talent If not ginlpa far billiard was anon dlecovere1 by Mr I Foley oho In his day was one of America greatwt rxlerls I at ter cu Foley coached Uc until It was wad dlecovered that aa an expert Ivea could loach Polar lleorgc T Hloaon then In Chicago who nt that limn Woo Mr 1oley eon Inlaw woo iucled by rule 1 > to Nan die I UK rising Young eipert 1 which Mr Blwmu dkl UIIIII 11 I removal to Nw Yk when M fr Nlwnn I like Mr ay hand4 his protests oter In Jacob Hthaefer In lhlcao with the mum that hi hound intake I him the great extort ex-tort irf the ruIn laver 011111ng to teethe tee-the erler or the malara of the game Nchaefr was nut slow 1 In I handling owed wore by thus time rate promla of Wins on Df Ilia leading I experts of the clay Hcliaefr end Ives r mala01 togthl still let l II rn ba 0014 In nit my tins Aragonites of Nchefr they never loan i ii d until hank Ives was practically a liraaloi expert than Ih wigs N frank Ivaa was not only a Street billiard player hut 110 a great AIIlwnal as il Olkn r iII = diplomacy la known to the world as his utwayumnI caner has hown Our Imf all of these year i In 0h1ch Foley 101oou I seat Nchasfer did 110 much to mk Ivan I the 111Ins gun In 110 bit Man world eastern ncwipaper writers And out the pnftealonals length and nver0whn breadth of through the land were no leas I IIlIou In the Internal lit flee future Napoleon of bllllardi JUUUNHVKI TO KUIIUIK Hating mattered the game 10 such an extent aa lo be abk lo defeat both Nloiiin and Hchaefer Ivei next turned 1010 attention to John lloberli of Koala Koa-la nil where the young American cuv red 1 hlmaelf ollh Imperishable glory 1 nee I not only def ntlog Mr Iloberta at hla own game In landun but alai In New York when Mr Itoberla come to meet lit Almilmn thud Hiving Ixea n double victory ocr Mr Iloberta at the tellers own game which wad up lo this 11m in othing rnnel4ered Imlbl lo do by any living expert Ivan by this time woo no nrmly etabllihed aa nn H tern that he ilgh d for 110 uoilu 1 lu conquer He Kent to France where the oaf his < Ui was iui h that later in ho onerl to play Maurice Vignette BOOO in looo points for 110000 a aid Th rremhman ilecllnel Ihe proposal ten an IIJ Jb Hrhaefer later on lio yealvel a i like challenge from Mr Ire 11 arn1 i lo IM the opinion of many that ahoy challenge lo VIou n1 It h I f I n re hilt In re 1ravn44 On I its pure I Ire Thl hII a not Ina F p JI ofolntn of 110 publi Tl I I + n n r 10 don Any doubt In our mind I Itr 1 f TIP t ty pin and nIt n-It + r 1 III I ellrhl it dnh tlrt 11111 1 U aro h fr n all 1 I r u 111 wit I1 y > Inf Clans tt t i rl 1 LIt I L-It 11 or + nit + have b 1 e r W < o1IL o1 110 tunl profeealonally nil okarr t IL r a 1It 11o1i1J so I r vialase I COO to aka Fromelint11 Wwu14 have 1 l1l1IIlIlIIIIfIInnIIU masnt prnfe ahnnl 1111 whlla Mot I um ry be exrltaIt h or mlfh r 10 hntm refamed his j teat presto In I Cal Ito It of dofea Sir a ulqu vrlorl 1101 Ives whhh wait never ImpoI I altimeter This frank teas t the neatest player 1 play-er the world lea + o kon nJ OV r may know tItaewr r n there K kut Illlle doubt in ciur mini The hlttry of 11 h n nun ran nn > be erltln In a brier newtpaper aril le I vn 011 r there la I unllhilud l pile During oho tat M yean In i rIu il eta Ally ado I I I I r men who limy > > I I t nk in a itaaa all by themI u Inv i are Job Iloberta of Krgl u i v i uxI Prm Hlonon eVltoiv Sense rrr and Ire ut till a country The titter In actual ci ron wu but I child limp red b Ih Olio rs and yet to ui ho Memi to hare lwn th gniateil of all That rVhaefer Is I mar or nn Ideal player ei jest arel 1 prafaMloiial than any nf the others PMtWllr I will tale later on Al though Inhe many r ipecta M mmtiti Notion he H letter the greater man of the two ren ra not in our mini i to be doom pyed with Ives or taqn In pW nl Tat of nevee a an pert l Tha v Iv and WIIIIm nrOI were the f realel nthbl r money Idayeri wee own In Ilia hlllts rd world 1I simply a matter of history with perhaps i the eln hAne tie elreptmn NI kemen of Michael Ihel holio HUH d The llrooklyn pattern i all complain of the remarkably small attendance and lack of enthusiasm In I ilrvoklyn Only IIN people graeled the Huperhaa upon their num from the ucceewiful I weal am trip which almost cinched the lien until tor 1lanlen e Ilr Dlaytil out as a le gee fair |
