St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-14
scHEFER,s GREAT VICTORY.
The International Match Closes
With RrilIinnI PInying.

NEW YORK, March I3.-The interna-
tional billiard match between Jacob Schefer
of this city and Maurice Vignaux of Paris
came to termination this evening. The
attendance was large. although the crowd
was not as large as on previous evenings,
owing to the lead obtained by Schafer over
VignauX. which last night was 1,02S points,
and thereby reduced hopeless the chances of
VignauX for winning. The spectators were
rewarded. however. by seeing some of the
prettiest billiard playing ever exhibited i'm
this city. Schaefer took up the game with
the balls in the position which they occu-
pied last night when he completed his 600
for the evening, and ran 10. VignauX
made 6, and then Schaefer. playing with
much dash and brilliancy, secured So. The
balls were kept for some time upon the
balk-line and fOs many shots he handled
them like an affectionate triple. The sew
enty-tifth shot, which was a maSse, drew
applause and another followed. again caus-
ing demonstration of approval. He failed
on a difficulty all-round-the-table shot.
VignauX stepped up and executed a
mastery gather. which brought down
the house. He made %, finally
missing single-cushiOn carom. In his
fifth inning Schaefer rapidly made %. Wig
and Schaefer made 8. Vignaux made 2.
and Schaefer began TO
PLAY PRETTY BILLIARDS.
beginning with long, open carom, which
took all the balls into the upper left-hand
corner of the table. Then ne played upon
the bunch very gently. keeping them to-
gether with marvellous skill. He kept them
going in and out of the balk-line running
across the head of the table, while every
now and then a white or red ball would
make an incursion TO the lower end of the
table, always returning to its former posi-
ton with unerrng accuracy, The way that
he Just touched the balls showed that me
was in splendid form. lie finally missed
on the seventy-siXth shot in trying diff
cult maSse. Then the Frenchman got TO
work. and managed to extract %. He
failed on an all-round-the-table shot. and
left the balls well fixed for Schaefer. who
soon had them going. and on his twenty
sixth shot made maSse on the balls resting
against the lower cushion. 1t brought
down the house. Schaefer followed
the first with another, which was also ex-
ceptionally fine and continued until he had
made 62 points and completed one-half OF
the desired GOO. VignauX made / on his
eighth inning. his total score being g.
Schaefer made a more and gave Vignaux
a chance, which he improved by making
neat run of so. Schaefer, for the second
during the game
LOOKED THROUGH A NAUGHT
and gave the Frenchman another chance, of
which he awaited himself, at the same time
giving fine exhibition of his art in brilliant
all-around-the-table shots, counting each
time with wonderful skill until he had
bagged 55 buttons. The fifty-tirst shot was
applauded on its merits as a draw and the
tifty-first as a follow shot Shaefer made
a single and left the balls in position for a
draw, which Vignaux secured and
90 more. On the sixteenth shot
balls were all in baI1 on the
lower left hand corner of the table, and the
Frenchman sent them out and back with
precision. The next was pretty kiss shot.
the white ball forcing the spot against the
left side cushion and kissing back to the
red. Then the wizard" put in several
beauties aud made IL and Vignaux pulled