Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-13
BIG BILLIARDS.
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tense interest IN tina uamc.
In y billiard match in the Assembly
rooms, Philadelphia, last evening between
MoLlughlin and IIciscr, tho former
made tho best run ever made in match
game IN this country. Tho Times thus
tells Of il
When Mclaughlin opened his fourteenth
| inning the balls wero widespread and by
no means in promising position, but a
| lOug shot brought them into the lowcr
! right haud corner aud began one of the
| prettcSt runs that was ever seen In this
country. The irst tlfty points were made
on the lower cross rail In two aud one
quarter minutes, and In Eve minutes he
| had rolled up n neat one hundred aud had
to stop for au instant until the applause
had subsded. Up the right hand side of
! the table he cuaxcd them gently, no ball
moving more than half inch at a stroke,
aud when the scorer called out two hun
| dred he had them bunohet in the right
haud upper corner in the shape of cooked
| hat. The difficulty here was To- turn the
corner and still keep them In that form for
| tuturo operations, and this required
thoughtful aud peculiarly delicate hand
ling. Eddy" was fully up to his work aud
made the turning in three moves, q feat
| that only master could have accomplished
The two hundred points had been made in
twelve minutes, and the balls looked like a
red and white shamrock, 80 closely were
they grouped.
SLOW, but sure.
Their progress along the upper rail was
very slow, for 50 gently we're they handled
that they scarcely moved q quarter of an
inch at stroke, and by the time the deli
cate turn at the corner was to be made
the scorer had announced three hundred
aud the admiring crowd had yelled and
stamped its admiration and delight. Then
a SLOW march down the right rail began.
The balls were never far apart and
many of the graceful players friends
shuddsTed at their nearness, because they
dreaded a disastrous "frscZs." But II did
not come. Eddy" had them too we'll in
hand and all the way along the rail to the
corner he never made a blunder. There
he hal another hard turn to make, but
neither HIS courage nor his Judgment
failed him aud he made 1t successfully,
still keeping the three worries in their
shamrock shape. Across the lower rail he
made 100 runs In 4, minutes, making the
turn at the right hand corner In three
we'll Judged shots. At 392 he turned 10
the upper right hand corner aud had the
balls in splendid position. His play was
very rapid and the scorer had all he could
do TO count the runs as they we're made.
The HsI Mns Post Reached.
When the fve hundred was called there
was a roar of delight and au outburst of
stamping and clapPing that prevented play
for short time, but the indefatigable
billiard expert kept hts cue in readiness
and patiently awaited the subsidenoe ol
the storm. 1t was minute or more be
lore he began on his 800 and at this time
he hai the balls punched on the left raj
aud IN perfect control. There was deer
quiet in the room aud the feeble click ol
the balls as they came together in thi,
skillful nursing could be plainly heard
When 600 was called aud followid by six
ninsty one " there was another yell o.
delight, for those OF the amateurs VIII
were posted in the history Of the game
! knew that Mclaughlin had beaten til,
best record ever made 10 match game OF
American soil. The player went right OF
after the applause had ceased still holding
them rapidly but gently and with rar'
judgment. At this part Of the game h,
! made 10 points in 81 minutes.
? intense EIoItemnnt as the End Approaohe,
By the time Mclaughlin had made 10
D pJuts the excitement Was so Intense tha
!, | Il was with extreme exertion that tn
audience reprsssed their loud manifesto
g tiOns of delight, and when the score
F.. scarcely less excited than they, called ou
Eight hundred ~ there was shout tina
q ought % have been heard half a mil
away There was pause OF about tw
! minutes in the play and then McLaughli
1 poised his cua again aud coolly and de
{ hbcrately finished the longest run o
4 record iu America. He made the 80
h points necessary TO make up his ,0O
1 points in exactly forty minutes, Will
. Heiser's score Was only 1874.
t The other big runs at the French caroI
game are: Vignaux's 1887, in Paris. in
game with George Slossou; Slosson's ru
y of /, ,l03 in the same game, and Shaeffer
< run of 900 in his game with Slosson at Oh
G cago.
e Mclaughlin and Heiser will play ball
I line game a month hence and game
n the champion style month after tina
u each for $3.50 a side. The New Yorke
o that came over to witness the contest vel
Al home rather melancholy. "There ain
; enough in that crowd to buy an oyst
a stow" said one Philadelphian as the Ne
E Workers fled out.
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