The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-22
THE TRIPLE TIE.
The Sixth Game of the Bill
lard Tournament.
RESULTS IN A VERY NEAT TIE.
The Contest to be Settled on Tuesday
In Game Each for Eight
Hundred Points.
The Sixth Game.

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The situation of affairs was peculiar
SlOsson and Vignaux had each won two
games and Sehaefer one game. A
victory for SlossOn would make him
richer by 5000. while his defeat would
make triple tie. There was a large
amount of money bet. Schaefer was
the favorite, the odds early in the day
being 500 to $40 in his favor, but in the
afternoon the rate became nearly even.
Just before the game, however,
Schaefer's friends offered 500 to $50
and it was freely taken. Referee Nc
Creery announced the situation OF
affairs and stated that no provision had
been made in the event of tie for con-
tinuing the tournament, but it
would be PLAYED off and no division
of the m )ney would be made.
At 8:14 the two players banked for
lead, and Schaefer won bv hair. He
counted from the lay off and gathered
the balls, but missed the second shot,
an easy one cushion. The balls were
left in line, but Ivy banking to the oppo-
site cushion, Slosson counted and held
them we'll together. He played them
well for q run OF 60, and had a good po-
sition at the rail when he tailed 70 get
the balls out of the 6alk on the second
u =,
but spoiled it on a draw to the cushion
Slosson picked off II and missed a one
cushion shot across the table
Schaefer had an opportunity in the NTH
innings to put in a good run, but his
position play was very poor and he
stopped at II. Slosson played in the
seventh inning for a run Of q, and he.
too. showed considerable nervousness.
Schaefer's miss of an easy one-cnshion
shot in the eighth left a set-lp. and
Slosson now set to work in good shape
once more and at A stopped on a deli
.ate one cushion effort. This time the
balls were left grouped for Schaefer,
who quickly ratified up 81, only to
fail on an easy short draw for position,
leaving the usual set-up. At the end
of the seventh inning the call was !:
Slosson 121, Schaefer So. Slosson IN
creased his lead with a run of SO in the
ninth, missing a delicate kiss back from
the cushion. Schaefer profited by the
fine set-up by making his best run thus
far. The balls lined on him three con-
scout i've times, but he counted with as
easy masse shots. He kept on until
he hal made very pretty
run of "a, when he came to
grief in a very easy draw, and lett the
balls in heap. The call wes-Slosson
1913, Schaefer 132. Slosson then passed
TO his third string. with a run of %.
Score = Slosson 221, Schaefer 132.
Schaefer, in his eleventh inning, missed
a plain tWo-cushiOn shot, and again
left the balls well for Slosson, who, at
36, missed a hard across-the-table
use the bridge. Schaefer responded
dror w
shot in an unaccountable manner.
The balls we're left at the head rall as
well as SlossOn could have placed them
with his fingers, but he did not handle
them very well and stopped at %, be-
fore having spread the balls badly. This
seemed to give Schaefer courage, for he
settled down to business and played
magnificent run of 107, stopping on a
tough left-hander. Slos sOn 285, Schaefer
265. SlossOn was perceptIbly shaken by
Schaefer's rush Of speed, and played his
next two innings very poorly. Schaefer,
in the fifteenth, made neat run of az,
and now was squarely ahead for the
first time-307 to 293. A square set-up
gave Slosson a run of q in the
seventeenth, and he again was
in front-335 ID Scbaefer's 30o. But
Schaefer was not to be shaken of. lie
dashed in for another big run IN the eigh-
teenth inning, and never stopped until
he had made la and failed on a masse
shot; score-Schaefer 442. SlossOn 33e.
now peeled off his broadcloths
but it did him no good. He played a
very poor run of 81, in which he bad
plenty of opportunities. Schaefer rap
idly scored a run OF IL in his twentieth,
stopping on a line break, in which he
could neither bank or masse, but tried
kiss follow. Again in the twentieth.
Slosson found the balls well punched
for him, but he staggered along with
only u, and when he missed a perfect
easy draw, the balls were set up for
Schaefer, who ran forty, and his score
was 535 to Slosson's 800. In the 23d in
ming, Schaefer tried a hard arounds
the-table shot, and got beaten out OF the
count by kiss, and lett Slosson flne
set-up. The Chicago boy accepted this
lucky interposition thankfully, and
once more began to play billiards. A
mill he succumbed to a succession of
tough breaks, though these were
the result largely of hts faulty posi-
ton play. ScOre-Schaefer 538, Slos-
son AS. Schaefer, IN the 9th,
piled up ~, missing a very hard
left hand draw. Slossen followed
with twenty and Schafer with ten.
Both were anxious and flustered: Slos-
sons run of q in the twenty-hfth inning,
ended with a freeze and be failed to
make the Iay-off stroke. He got an
other opening in the twenty-sixth but
stopped at and in the twenty
seventh Sch@fer made the neces-
sary 8 and the tournament
ended in a triple tie.
Shaefer, black, 2, OIL, II, l, 0, 2,
81, "A, o, 26. 1O7, 0, AZ, /, 0. ia, 0. 73, 40.
2, l, AZ, 10, 1, 8. Average y, 81. High
sIosson. Whites, II, 0, 10. 0. q. A,
30. 8. 36, %, /, Z. is. % Is, 81, II. 20, 4,
%, 2. 4, 2. Total 492. Average Is, 1926.
High run So.
ARRANGEMENTS for playing of the ties
cannot be made tonight. but 1t is
thought that Battery D can be fitted up
with seats in arnphitheatrical form and
the tournament played to an end, COM
mencing Tuesday night, with one
game each of 800 points.