Show IRS IRIS MAIDEN WINS I BILLIARD J IW IN OLD OD com f Miss May Dempsey sti Rare Ability in Ham ling lini the Cue i t LONDON England Feb events cast their I shadow ha ot b bet fact which applied to Ils is I elated with the of oC t. t one hiss AJa alay a Dempsey in Hard liard handicap at C Wa Wat Ireland Irelan Slip blie wa- wa wa-ih wa Ih one oft ol wal leato lei lea lear to what It If Is lii only fai fan to a assume sume ve y e elot lot of or spit spit-ft one ono female o of 21 28 25 Perhaps the distinctIon j Is la hers being the first lady player enterprising and truly up to dat dati Moreover Mom if jf favored wih j lb h the urn Miss hiss Dempsey Dempse managed to get t I ther her two l heats beats ats and ana to r opponent to five points in the th First Woman Ouis Miss l D Dempsey's s example r. r ra na n stand to oth others Is I's of her sex ex who vho present ar and d years ears of or giac r revealed a more ui 1 i I less g Q sire to place themselves an e t l with all aa mankind There s 's is tho the thoman man many a A. od reason to fo be he ad uJ d tho the cult of biLliards b by our women women- Apart from being the most Sc the most social inclined of 0 x i 1 g gIt g gIt It holds the k key y to the great groat front fron of a better understanding to a a. fi great and edifying game We Wi se Set see sexes mingle on the th tennis courts an i. ah the golf courses Hitherto has lisa not been done openly as regards regard billiard table The mythical nove have supplied such fantasies in em profusion but their counterpart art ha hano halt haJJ no reality In the flesh Billiards In r of fact has been the exclusive ve mono of selfish men J 1 3 Like Piano Playing J S Attempts have been made In th thea theato d to establish better billiard relations tween the sexes They have bave not mc wa for force torce of advocacy We have known lady champions jf tho the novelty of their theli public nubile the table has quickly waned It SS be otherwise though were a youn young man to display a nice idea of the g gand gand gand and ability to put It into execution f Is not only possible but probable Inear I t near future ii Billiards is to be he acquired by all alIt having some sort soil of a natural apte apt re e trained to make the best beat use 0 of gifts There is indeed a rema remar likeness between piano playing playing and billiard playing The Thelong r IS long practice and amid delicacy of tou- tou differently given and knowledge of are applicable to all three 3 So far as has been set seen the fou players who have at one tim time an another another ancL other figured as championship asplin aspi aspirin in iii England did not possess SS to attract the exacting critics ot sterner sex set Those commonplace tw tv and thirty breaks made in the the- 4 commonplace manner fell fen far sho shot ho the requirements It Jt will l be he oth other othe tl when the ladles ladies with an occasional break that break that mecca of the billiard p pat pIE at at her hem command makes males a bid hid for n U larity There is no bU but buta but buta a stolid outlook to lo the future in ex eXP lii luff the believe that l a I lady billiard i ll WI fi d fully qualified ability i It will mateland matel and give the grand rand old game gamo that Ill flU deserves for having steered Id out 6 danger shoals of or bad associations 4 enough of them now and holdis head very high billiards is on ott t tl th grade Female Arm Lacks Strength From th the very ery hour it was i ii that ladies were VIero lik to become ested in billiard pla ing a oI HI diversity of opinion wits was IS found to to among the billiard coa i he hes a as to weight of cue should bp be us d by fj It has been found b by experience p th female arm if it supple and f action larks lacks In III tho streng-tho The Th resa res rest resta 1 a weak weal stroke upon the cut CUP ball a r effectiveness at anything above a bYI m nu niJ pace shot So one section heavier than normal fifteen and ond a al ounce cue and amid another section fathe fa fathe the other extreme of a much 11 lI The Tho argument remains undecided this very ery day |