Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-31

| ance was fairly bewidering. lie hsd sprfaSscd
| Dions great open-tabe run of A. the highest
| on record at the game.
| The great piece Of playing suddenly reversed
| the tables and carried sexton 10 the front for
| the first time. with score Of 29l 10 Schaef.,rs
| 26l. But, Is Sexton suffered relapse of pooi
play, Schaefer soon caught upaad passed his OPP
p0ncnt again. Sexton. however. went 90 the
| front once more. and was the first To reach
| the fourth string: Just , ahead, with total
score of Sr2 The scores stood even AZ 3l2 each
/ in the second inning OF the fourth string
points, and the game, Therefore was very close
| y and evenly contested. Shortly after making
| run OF ~ in his eighty-Seycnih inning, Sexton
settled down to another Rig run, when he failed
To score OH the seventeenth Slot. and after some
debate over the referees decision on the miss.
gave place ID Scigaeicr. who gathered in 20 This
made the score 500 to 36e in his favor. but Sen
ton. by soNe mere Of his deXterous nursing"
quickly regained his ground aud rolling up %
on top Of a run Of 40 passed into his nth string
at race-horse gait, with score OF 4l2 10
Schaefer's 81
With pretty run of -. Schaefer increased his
score TO 400 i'm the ore hundred and first inning
but Sexton still kept ahead OF him. He drove
the balls through all sorts of complicated and be-
wilderng combinations, and drew forth re-
peated applause. of which Schaeler lighting his
uphill battle witt plucky perseverance. got him.
self a goodiy share. Sciiacier ord not gain. how
ever and i'm the one hundred and twenty-fifth
inning, after run of 10 caroms. Sexton entered
upon his sixth and last string of buttons with \
lead of - points his score being 5l5 to Schaeer's
AS. Sexton continued to increase his lead. and
there seemed To be very little chance lett for
Schaefer. VINO played splendidly at times. in
spite of the discOuraCing outlook and rolling
UP in succession brilliant runs OF IL and 2l en-
tered upon his last string with sos. Sexton hav-
ing $50 to his credit This number Sexton ma
terialy increased 10y arun of % in reply to Schae-
fer 81. Schaefer, later on. made 10 on the rail
and the interest of the spectators, who had con-
Guided that Sexton had the game rs good az
won. began to grow intense. When Schaefer
placed II alongside of the 18th the excitement
rose higher still. and Sexton himself became
of shots. He scanned the scores apprehen-
siye!y. studied the table for long period and
re5orted to safety" to block the onward course
OF his adversary. Scaaeter. on the other hand,
played with daring brillancy and raised a wild
uproar of enthusiastic cheering i'm his effort to
overtake Sexton. But his burst of skill came
too late. and Sexton won at length by "a points,
amid the widest uproar. Cheer upon cheer
rang through the hall, and the victorious ex-
pert was carried of in triumph on the shoulders
OF his friends.
IL took four hours and seven minutes and 70
CURED l55 innings to play the match. Sections
average on the entire 600 points 3 27-3l
and Schaefers was 111-155 Sections best
runs were II, IS. 10. and I6 and Schaefer's were
B. %, 20, and 10 1t is estimated that the re-
ceipts OF the house amounted to $50 which
Sexton receives outright