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The Seventeenth Game the Closest Contested
-siosson's Victory over Joe Dion One
Of the Games PLAYED In Fourteen Inntnss.


The Seventeenth Game the Closest Contested
-siosson's Victory over Joe Dion One
Of the Games PLAYED In Fourteen Inninss.
The seventeenth regular game OF the
Delaney tournament was played yesterday after
noon between Joseph Dion and George Slos-
son, the latter leading with a miss. Dion fol.
lowed with 3, q run which he repeated In the I'd
inning. In the Sd Joe cleared IS, and In opening
the 9th slosson made neat run Of 10, to which
Joe ereplied with 103. The at this point stood
1f5 to 21,Dion ahead. with the exception Of WE'LL
executed run OF 20 by Siosson, there was moth
ing further noticeable In the game until the 18th
inning. in which Slosson cleared 16 and Dion %,
the latter showing a total OF a9 to his opDo-
nents 10l. Dion increased his score by % points
In the 18Th inning. In the Ed, SIosson played
well for 10; aud in the 23d, In face Of great dim
culties, he made a still better break of 90, In
erecting which he displayed most consume
mate skull. Dion then rolled up 10. and
thenceforward the game was intensely exciting.
With the odds OF 2S9 to 223 against him, Slossou
opened the 18th inning with 80; In the 18th he
scored 10 In the next, IL and was now 2s8 to
Dions 2v6. Ihe next inning gave him l ana
Dion tue 3lst Welded him 10 and DL IN 1; aud
In the 3Sd Sl0sson closed the game w 3 points,
beating DOu by2 points. Slossoa's play for the
last ten innings was, perhaps, the must brilliant
narrowed the gap between himself and mis- an-
taeOnist point by point his every shot was
average was e3-8; Dion's 9l9 81; and, Tor the
third time In The tournament, the losers aver
age was greater than that Uf the winner. Time
ofeame hour and 90 minutey.
The eighteenth game was played LIST evening
by a. r. Hudolphe aud Maurice DAILY. "A was
too frequently the case, the players were back
ward In coming forward. and 1t was several
minutes after tue appointed time when they
made their appearance aud strung for the lead.
hudolpbe led with l, and ID ,ly followed with
O. slipping up on an easy nk shot. Then Ru:
uophe played for 10, leaving the balls well
placed for Maurice. who made only T. In the
3d Inning. however, no atoned for Dis shortcom-
ing by running up pretty score OF 20. Ru-
dophe opened the Attn inning with clever fol-
low shot. which sent the red and white close
together under the lee of the side cushion. He
played them with great judgment. and his la
Dor was rewarded with a score Of ". In the 8th
inning he mad, mainly by nursing, run OF ~,
which set him at $50, wnlle Daly was far behind
at 81. The Latter redeemed himself in a meas
ure 10y scoring II and 1S In two successive in-
nings. whereupon Rudolpe put 50 together in
short order, and In the l4th inning ran the game
out with So points. leaving DAILY M L. Ru-
dOlphe's average was u 81 the largest thus far
and Daly's was sb-l3. Time of game, hour rs
minutes.
The nineteenth game was between Garn,er
and Schaefer The IL ad was won oy the latter,
who scored 0, and no run was made until
GARNER closed the I'd inning with 10. The same
player made "a In the Attn, and then came Scnaef-
fer with II la tue 7th and 70 In the n. GARNER
cleared "A In the llth inning and In the next ran
50, one OF his shots being from the string. The
score was now lSl to 90 Ia favor Of GARNER.
Schaefer tried ri for good run In the 18th
inning, but realized only 4and GARNER closed the
inning with |. Schaener followed with and
GARNER, collecting the balls by means Of long
draw. made a ine run OF 70. A number of in
significant scores marked the progress OF the
game. Schaefer playing badly; but in tue 18th
inning he old some very beautiful work. and
rolled up 50 IN excellent style. GARNER finished
The winners average was 10 3; the losers,
95-S. lime OF gauie, hour 10 minutes.