Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-06-24 | Page 4 | Willie Hoppe to Meet Sutton

WILLIE HOPPE TO liiiiLib! 5JUiflOii Two Billiardists Will Contest for Purse of $1,500 and Net Gate Receipts in St. Louis vin October. St. Louis, Juno 24. Willie Hoppe and G. Butler Sutton, of Chicago, will meet for the 1S.2 balkllne championship champion-ship In this city the third week in October, according to advices fromj R. B. Banjamln, Hoppe's manager,! "who met Sutton in Chicago. The veteran Sutton, who has lost a goodly number of times to Hoppe held out for Chicago as the place to play the contest, but as Hoppe is the champion and has the final say-so, tho Windy City man swung into line, and St Louis will get the event. The two stars wlU play 1500 points on three nights, 500 each night. According Ac-cording to the Chicago dispatch, they will contest for a purse of $1,500 and the whole of the net gate receipts.