Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-12-23

Slosson would keep plodding along until he
was within hail.ng distance OF shaeier' anu
then the latter would wake up and go speeding
along leaving Slosson behind him. But the
game was not stupid, by any means. a great
variety Of shots were shown, even II the men
did not move along very fast, and there were
frequent bursts OF applause when any surprls-
ing venture resulted in count. At the end OF
the forty-hfth inning the score stood EOo for
Schaefer to 1876 for Slosson. Thus far in the
game shaefer bad sh9MR hmsed thS to e @
the balls near the rail and then, by delicate
nursing shots, knock out double figures nearly
every time. slosson, on the other hand, de-
pended more on open-table play, and seemed
unable e take advantage of the very positions
which netted the most points for his antagonist
In his eighty-tirst inning chaefer made a run
Of 81 During the spurt he gave the finest ex-
hibition of cushion-carrom playing that was
ever witnessed in public His delicate mastery
of the balls was perfectly marvellous Men who
had been used to see cushion carroms played in
hammer and-t -tongs style were nstounded. The
game at that time stood; Schaefer, 4l6; Slos-
son, s59.
ratified up ~ points before he missed ON diff
cult single-cushion vonture. From that time on
the game Lecome exciting. as Slosson steadily
gained on Schat for, who seemed unable TO play
even nu ordinary game. For twenty-seven
innings he never once reached double figures.
He missed easy shots, ma te q couple OF mis-
cues, played in bad luck, and altogether night
ened his hackers in a most painful manner. In
the meantime Slosson was playing much bet.
ter than he had been doing during any part OF
the game.
After n dozen innings devoted to this stagger-
ing duel Schaefer suddenly 'emCd to recover,
and, as easy as IL he were rafting peas in a
cup, he knocked out Is points. S.osson followed
with goose-egg. while Schnefer aided moro
buttons to his string. Then Slosson pulled him
self together for tho last effort, and with many
a brilliant shot he collected ~ points, every one
Of which was worth a SD bill to him just az
that time. When no at last missed ut the
4Ath point, Just by the width OF hair,
Schaefer chnlked lis cue set his
.a.1 N1.aW fNan mn IN a
table, he ran up the ten poin:s needed 70 make
game as easily IL nothing we've at stake.
When the winner scored Lis five hundredth
point Slcsson tossed his cue aside and shook
SchnGfer warmly by the hand, and the nsxt in
slant two or thrC o hundred excited men rushed
| forward aud fol On the little Dutchman They
| slapped him On the back, cheered Tor him, and
| ders, and would have succeeded had not n
| friend rushed up and rescued him Will another
| friend presented HIM with nm elegant gol
watch and chain Of Tiffany's make. Following
| is the score:
schaefer-0. /, 0, 2, o, 3, 3 4s, :, G, ,OOc, 3,9,1
O. II, o. o. o, G, J, O. 2 o, o. 81 . o. 3, q, @
1, /, O. g. o, o. H. IL, g. ., ], q, O, z ], 3
81, o. 9, 0, O. o. 90, ., z, 20 ~ 81, ], 2, O.
siosson-1, c, ?, s,l4,2.1,I,I,1,C,5 Is, H.
L. q o. 12, o. o. = o, 3, o. o, l. 12 o. a. o. 3, o, 6, o.
o. g. 8, g. o. l. Is, o, s. 3, a H. 9 6, l. ], o, o, l.
IL, l. o. 8, 3, p !, o. ], n, TO- 2, .? q, O. ),
g. g. 10, o. %, /. l. 2, ~ q. II, IT. o. o. 10, s. l.,
10. o, 9, 4, J. 6, l. O. 6, g. o. 4, o, 2, 0. 17-i9O.
schaefer-Average, 50-lll highest runs, 30
slosson-Average. lOO-1lO highest runs, II
4 n. 81