=First Championship of Pennsylvania.=—October 4–10, 1864, Sansom Street Hall, Philadelphia.—500 points on a 6 × 12 carom, p. and c. barred. Prizes, champion cue for first; silver plate, worth $100, for second. Nelms beaten by Estephe and Montgomery only. Average of tournament (seven games apiece), 8.23. Money stake in matches, $100.
W. R. Av. G. A. Estephe 7 121 13.51 11.29 Nelms 5 108 13.12 9.55 Bird 4 64 11.60 8.94 Montgomery 4 74 9.26 7.64 Ryall 3 54 9.80 7.98 Plunkett 2 92 9.60 7.96 Palmer 2 57 10.20 7.70 Hewes 1 49 7.22[1] 5.83
ESTEPHE VS. RYALL. First match, same hall, December 13th.—E., 1200—10.63—60; R., 966—76.
ESTEPHE VS. MONTGOMERY. Same hall, February 20, 1865.—E., 1200—16—109; M., 525—44.
ESTEPHE VS. NELMS. Third and last match, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, April 13, 1865.—E., 1200—15.38—78; N., 1161—155.
=First Annual Championship of Upper Canada.= November 21–26, 1864, Music Hall, Toronto.—Games, 500 points, 6 × 12 four-pocket. Wm. Jakes beaten by none but Samuel May, who won play-off with D. Miller. Two prizes for place, and one for high run. Tournament unique in the approximate uniformity of its high runs and averages at the style of game. Its own average (six games apiece) was 5.99.
W. R. Av. G. A. Jakes 5 60 8.20 7.56 May 4 64 7.58 6.01 Miller 4 48 7.81 6.70 Cronn 3 40 7.25 5.42 Brown 3 49 8.62 6.32 Cheseborough 2 40 5.62 5.43 Phillips 0 43 4.90
=First Public Contest on a 5½ × 11 Table (Four-pocket).= Grover’s Theatre, Washington, D. C., January 23d.—$250 a side. Melvin Foster, 1500—19.23—170; John Deery, 1445—205. Return game, Irving Hall, N. Y. City, February 11th.—F., 1500—16.13—137; D., 1124—122.
=Thomas Foley vs. Chas. A. Frink.= Metropolitan Hall, Chicago, January 29, $250 a side, 6 × 12 four-pocket. Foley, 1000; Frink, 872. Same terms and hall, February 11th.—Foley, 1000—14.71—93; Frink, 537—47.
=Amateurs’ Sixteen-hour Contest for $2,000.= “Arena,” 185 Sixth Avenue, N. Y. City, February 20–21st—Admission by invitation. Wm. N. Wickes gave Wm. McKeever odds of “double discount,” best in 37 100–point games “around the table”—i.e., mixed caroms and pocketings, latter limited to three consecutive times from the one spot (6 × 12 four-pocket). Games won: W., 20; McK., 14; W.’s extra one due to a dispute as to which had won the 13th. Total points: W., 4981; McK., 2129. Winner’s general average, 14.43. No intermission. Referee throughout, Peter D. Braisted, Jr., color-sergeant Seventh Regiment.