New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-25
THE BEST BILLLAAD GAME YET.

scu.rrpR AVERAGES NINETEEN POINTS, AND
LEAVES SEXTON 235 POINTS IN THE REAR.
The usual crowd assembled in Irving Hall
last evening schaefer and Sexton poke the ivory
globes back and forth the bakne In the NTH game
Of the billiard tournament AT O'Clock the contestants
appeared schaefer all the glory Of evening Dress Sex
ton in a frock coat flowing as to the tais
and without further delay fell to, Schaefer FIRST
donnng his fatigue uniform. thebrown cardigan Sex
ton the draw and selecting the whiie pail PTDpG
suit The Green Mountain boy added anolher 70 f nis
store OF nest eggs and kindly left sticking out Tor
his opponent who gathered It in quietly and retired
Sexton tried and ran two. scored the ta on
Sis fa,ae' and finally sat down with seven buttons his
string After three innings were passed ana ohy one
TO the fact that the admiring friends WHO
had backed their opinions by 100 to 81, 80
on his success were getting anxious ran
seven. made the next on pretty gather shot
and then settling into his old quiet licked of dozen in
ont his score to dozen schaefer cornered the balls
again and counted 10 shifted his base OF operations ana
made 1t % worked along the rail. picking up points
as he went until 80 called of, when he yielded the
floor to his who fS0k e s good
ran g. but the fourth lacked legs IN the next INNING ne
counted made four feints at the ninth bat nnay ook
it lefthanded got the balls down at the lower END OF
the table and tendery nursed them until "a bl0ssoed
90 in shalt that number of seconds without
moving them three inches from the one position; sSIa
them little aud missed fine shot, and sat down whiie
Al this stage Of the game sgnor Niconi appeared in
fills the post of worthy instructor III the noble zane
of billiards in the household, but Patti was making
the Academy across the way vocal with runs OF diner
en character the ninth inning Sexton concentrated
his mind task before him and roned
up AZ, striding around the table as though
ON six days walk; picked mp tne
next pretty twO-cushion carrom scored the forty
sixth on wonderful follow shot and missed on an easy
one schaefer then resumed control OF affairs ana
licked off twenty In the good old way, so confusing The
Green Mountain boy that he forgot which ball was his
and had to get the referees opinion on that point:
In the il-omened thirteenth inning Sehaeer astohshed
his opponent and delighted the spectators by run OF
OF. 1t seemed as though some unseen power
had been invoked for matter how dlcut the shot
The ball rolled Obedienty around al sorts OF mpos
sible corners, and point after point was
called off until Referee Newberger was iu aed
to- sleep by the monOtonous chant ana
nearly fe of his high chair when rudey awakened
by the applause that greeted the termination OF the RIM
Prom that time on the result foregone concIuslo
snd when In the twentieth inning Schaefer ran 40
points coming within twelve OF the necessary
Boo there was groan from the anxious spectators who
hoped TO see him finish then and make an average OF
twenty points TO the shot, In two more innings now
ever he closed the game leaving Sexton 235 points be-
hind. This was the score:
sexton-O o. T. 2 49, /. H. AZ, 90 o. II, "a. ~
o. 80 l. g. 90 O. \, IL, o. 1Otal 26J average TO- - ~
Schaefer-O l. o. 2O. 3d. g. Do q 90 20 o, "a 40, "a
200 50, So 90 o. !. 49, IL, l. Tota, 500 average ~
Time OF game-i hour. 30 minutes
To-niOhI slossOu DAILY will meet the DaiZe.