St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-27
sLOssON THE WINNER.
The Wizard of the Cue Badly
Reaten

New YORK, Oct. 26.-The great bill
lard match at the fourteen-ipch balk
line game OH 5x10 table, 800 points up;
for stakes of $1,000 and the whole net
gate receipts, between Jacob Schaefer,
of Chicago, and George Slosson, OF New
York, drew great crowd of billiard ex-
perts and admirers of the game to
Chickering hall tonight.
The game began at S:l4 o'clock.
Slosson took the lead. By open play he
scored twenty-fOur points and then
missed OH difficult across-the table
shot. Schaefer made run of twenty
points and then failed to count. He
played quick game with great deal
OF dash, while Slosson's play was marked
by apparent study over each shot. In
the beginning of the second inning
Slosson scored forty-nine points,
Schaefer made eleven points and
missed on an easy shot. SlossOn failed
to score and Schaefer made run of
Is in the next inning. Slosson then
failed to count after making II points,
and Schaefer made a run of A by some
fine nursing and rail shots. At the end
of the fourth inning the score stood 90
to 81 i'll favor of Schaefer.
In the next three innings SlOssOn
made runs of %, l and IL, and the but
tons marked l25 points to his credit.
Schaefer made about IL points in
three innings, and his score was
101. In the sixth inning Slosson
piled 81, making his total l59. Schae-
fer failed to score in the eighth and
ninth innings, and SloSson did no better
in the ninth and tenth. In the tenth
inning the Chicago player coaxed 16
points, and the game stood 159 to III in
favor of the New Yorker. just before
the game was begun the betting was
S1,00o to 5000 in favor OF Schacfer.
After the third inning, however, there
was no odds offered on Schaeffer.
From the eleventh to the six
teenth inning inclusive, Schaefer
made but fifteen points, while SIosson
by series of open plays made runs OF
20, % and 90. He failed to count in the
twelfth inning, and scored but eight in
The fourteenth inning. The score at the
end of the fifteenth inning stood at 27S
for Slosson aud 1872 for Schaefer.
Schaefer's friends were greatly dis
appointed at the poor showing he was
making. They had been in hopes that
he would take the lead In the early part
OF the game and retain ii. Slosson
was playing steady game while
Schaefer was making but poor show
Ing. His highest run up 70 the
sixteenth inning was A, and his next
best runs were 20, 10. u. Is and IL.
Slosson had runs of 60, So, 40. 81 and %
to his credit. Slosson continued to
steadily pile up his score, and at the end
of the nineteenth inning he had a total
of BOT. against Schaefer's 1884, In the
twenty-fourth inning Slosson made a
run of rs points by fine exhibition OF
nursing, with occasional brilliant shots
at open. and was heartily applauded.
Schaefer continued in hard luck and
poor form. and. although he played with
more caution than he did in the early
part of the game. he failed TO make any
telling play. In the twenty-ffth inning
he made run of 48 points and then
slipped up. The score stood CPS for
Slosson. S92 for Schaefer. In the next
inning Slosson again nursed the balls
for so points and in the following inning
piled up % more. lie ran out in the
thirty-sixth inning. Averages, Sosson
% 20. Schaefer IL Is; umpire, Dudley
Kayanagh; time of game, 3:4S.