BILLIARDS.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 283, 8 May 1875, Page 3

BILLIARDS.

FOUR-HANDED GAME UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE LADIES OF THE HOMOEOPATHIC HOSPITAL. (From the New York Herald.") The four-handed game played Thursday night at Tammany Hall between the Dion Brothers and Gamier and Daly will remain celebrated in the history of the United States as the first public billiard match that received the patronage of many of the leading ladies in the country. It was a great triumph for the game of billiards, as although the receipts went to the Homoeopathic Hospital Fair Association, it would have been impossible to draw such a brilliant assemblage if Mr Matthew Delaney had not first opened the way by making his tournament a public amusement at which no lady was ashamed to be seen.

Shortly after eight o'clock p.m., Colonel Fellows, ex-district attorney, stepped up to the centre of the room, and, after making a few preliminary remarks, introduced the players to the spectators. The game was to be 500 points at French carroms, played on a 5 x 10 Griffith table, fitted with the Delaney wire cushions. The umpires were Messrs Post and Palmer, and Mr Pearsall officiated as referee. Game was called at twenty-one minutes past eight, and Cryille Dion broke the balls, scoring a pretty run of 15. For the first few innings no remarkable play was made by either of the players, but at last Maurice Daly made a first class scratch, which received quite as much applause as a brilliant masse. At tbe close of the thirteenth innings the game stood: — DION 40, GARNTER 19,

giving an average of one and a half to the latter side. Various opinions .were given accounting for the poor play. Some said the boys were bothered by their swallow-tail coats, and others that there were so many ladies present they were afraid of " kissing." Joe Dion finally summoned up courage and made a pretty run of 30, that Gamier followed with 11. After a little more uninteresting play Cyrille Dion got the balls along the side cushion, and, by some careful manipulation, rolled up 58. Gamier fol lowed shortly afterward, and then Cyrille added 19 to his score. Gamier and Daly were both playing wretchedly, and finally the former summoned up courage and took off his swallow-tail, going to work in his shirt sleeves with a confidence that added 20 to his string. Cyrille then came to the front, and, as the immaculate fit of his evening garment restricted the free action of the muscles of the shonlder, he followed Garnier's example, and also succeeded in running 20. Joe Dion was the next to relieve himself of his superfluous clothing, and, finally, Daly, summoning up all his courage, jerked his arms out of his sleeves, and threw the masterpiece of Poole on one side with as little regard as if it came from a Chatham street slop shop. The ladies sympathised with the delicacy that had governed the action of Daly, and rewarded his next shirt sleeve effort, which culminated in 7, with a round of applause. On the thirty-fourth inning Cyrille ran 16, and then Maurice Daly, destitute of coat, began to exhibit what he knew about billiards, making a brilliant run of 65, which he followed in his next hand with 12. Gamier then got to work and rolled up 27, and on the fortieth inning Joe Dion counted 36. At the close of the fortieth inning the game stood:—

DION 312, GARNIER 238. On the forty-fifth inning Cyrille Dion put in a good run for 48, giving his side a lead for over 100. On the fifty-third inning Cyrille run 10, and followed in his next hand with 17. Gamier and Daly were barely averaging one. The Dions finally won the match and the badges,