Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-02
Schaefer Defeats SlossOn by 191
Points in Their Billiard Cham
piOnship Match.
BRILLIANT WORK WITH THE CUE.
Important Meeting of the Stockholders of
the Players League Club to
Settle Up Affairs.
SLAvIN WILLING TO FIGHT CORBETT.
Local Chsllsngs to Reddy Gansgher-eensral Sport
ing News Of the Day.

New YORK, Dec. Jacob Schaefer and
George f. Siosson played billiard match
at Chickering Hall tonight for the cham
pionship of the world, cup emblematic of
the same and 81, 600 side. The hail was
crowded. The men played on a standard
table, 5x10. The game was a 14-inch balk
line, 800 points mp. Maurice DAILY acted as
referee. The game began at $50 P. NJ.
Both men were in the pink OF condition.
There was strong spirit of rivalry between
them, and everyone in the house felt they
were going to witness the best game of
billiards of their lives. Schaefer won the
string, and, choosing the spot ball. essayed
q long shot. He missed and the Student
started in. He found only ,. The Wizard
missed an easy shot and gave his opponent
another chance. Slosson nursed them care
fully and made 20 before he had to step
aside. Schae.er made and Slosson in the
next inning. 10 the fourth neither counted
and in the fifth Schaefer made none and
Slosson l, while in the sixth Schaeler made
2, Slosson, O.. Schae!er had evidently
RECOVERED HIS NERVE
when he opened th: seventh inning. Swift
", almost noiselessly, he counted every
time, and his brilliant plays frequently
evoked rounds of applause. When he
passed the 25-pOint mark the crowd yelled
with Joy. Forty-seven. IS, 40, counted
aloud by Bud Schoheld. the official marker,
and then 80. Again the Wizard was round
" cheered. After making 81 points Schaef-
er made what Referee DAILY decided was
balk on the line, and Siosson took his place
10 play his half of the seventh inning.
Schaefer'S good showing had evidently
nerved him, and there was look OF grim
determination on his thin white face. He
missed au easy one on the forty-second shot,
however, and retired with something like
smothered curse on mis- lips. Again Jake
took the cue, and there was q smile of tri-
unph.
In his first four shots he had two difficult
mlsse plays to make and the manner in
which be made them evoked thunders of
applause. There were many ladies in the
house and they were just as much excited
and enthusiastic about the great game as the
men. Schaeter appeared to be slightly the
favorite, but the betting Oh the result of the
game was even money and the choice. 1t
looked as If Schaefer WAS going to make a
record more in the eighth inning, but he lost
1t on the lower left hand corner of the table
alter counting 81 times.
THE STUDENT WAS PUSHED.
Slosson, looking just a little flushed. be-
gan to play amid death-like silence. He
counted up TO the twenty-ninih shot, when
be made a brilliant cross-tab!e shot, and
again in the forty-eighth shot. His ball
was at the foot OF the table and the two
others at the upper end, one in each corner.
He counted on them, though, and received
the greatest applause so far in the evening.
This seemed to rattle him, though, and he
went out on the fortv-ninth shot. The score
at the end OF the eighth inning was:
Schaefer, 80; Slosson, ia. The men were
tied for the next few innings. In the
ninth Schaefer made .. Slosson 0; in the
tenth Schaefer made 10, Slosson 6; in the
eleventh Schae:er 8, Slossou Z; twelfth,
Schaefer 3, Slosson 4; thirteenth Schaefer
Z, Sloss0n 3; fourteenth, Schaeier /, Slossol
0. Then the Little Wizard went TO the table
again and played brilliantly until he missed
a difficult bank shot, after making II points.
SlOSsou made a point, and missed an easy
considerable shot The average thus far
WIS very ordinary. Sixteenth inning,
Schaeter 0, SIosson 10; seventeenth, Schaefer
3. SloSson 9. In the eighteenth inning Jake
nu-sed them on the lire and kept them there
until be had scored 73 points, when he re-
tired amid the plaudjts Of the crowd. The
score, when Slosson went in to plav, was
Schaefer "a, S.osson 162.
THE WIZARDS WONDERFUL WORK.
In his half of the 18th Slosson counted 81
and in the 18th Schaefer PLAYED billiards.
Getting the worries on the line again ne
uiaved them so that it seemed as if he had
them on a wire. Back and forth he sent
hem together across the table from one
corner TO the other and his cue ball fitting
bv and all around them. He drove them
slowly down through the center of the green
table ike team of thoroughbredS. He
never PLAYED in better form than during this
inning. He reached and passed the hun
dred mark safely and still he kept on gent
y clickingsthe iyOrieS. Where was he 60
ing 20 stop? He still had them well in hand
and with every shot he seemed to gain more
confidence in himself.
His playing alone in this inning redeemed
the game from any mediocrity. 1t was, in
deed, expert playing. Schaefer made 12S
points when he stopped. SIoSson looked
ie7erish when he went TO play. His hands
trembicd lust 4 little, and he missed an
easy shot after making ten points. Schaefer,
a little oyer-couhdent, made only one in
bis half of the twentieth inning. Siosson
seemed glad as he took his cue 10 play his
half of the same, but he only made eight,
and Schae.er opened the twenty-frst in
ming with brilliant round-the-table shot.
A miscue ruined him a ter he had made
is points Slosson could only make
ore. Twenty-second inning, Schaefer
i; Slosson, s. Score, Schaefer, 4O3; Slos-
son. 223. Betting three and four 10 one
against SlossoD. The little Wizards excel
lent PLAYING seemed to have ratified him
badly Twenty-third inning, Scnaefer, 1;
n IL
get 'em again, and fondled the ivories in his
peculiarly graceful and all-around-the-
tabIe-way until he had scored 81. Slosson
made 4. Twenty-f;th inning, Schaefer, Q;
Slosson, 8. TweuJy-sixth, Schae. .er, 0; Slos-
SOB, l. Twenty-seventh, Schaefer, %;
Slosson, 42. Twenty-eighth, Schaefer, 80:
Sosson, IA The score at the end of the
tEenty-Dinrh inning was: Schaeser, 543;
Slosson, S2+
LOST ALL HOPE.
Thirtieth inuing-Schaefer, A; Slosson,
0. The latter seemed to have lost hope
Thirty-frst-Schaefer, 0; Slosson, o. In
the thirty-second Schaefer again gave
a wonderful exhibition of nursing the
balls around the table. Rapidly he
rolled the points up to so, and it
is hard to tell where he would have stopped
when he was kissed of, and Slosson again
went to the table. He played the game for
all he knew how. but something seemed to
be wrong with him, especially during the
early part of the game. He had said that
he never felt filter TO play billiards in
his life and yet some of his errors
would have shamed an amateur. Twenty
FIVE was the most he could score in his half
of The thirtv-second inning. From this on,
Slosson made more billiards than the lean
little man from Chicago, but twas too late.