Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-23
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From ALI Quarters.
FINE BILLIARD CONTEST
The Great Wizard is Still
the Champion. ..
DEATH OF JUSTICE JOSEPH BRADLEY
Nineteen Burned by the Fire
at indianapolis.
An AMERICAN SHIP BURNED At SEA.
Several People Buried I'm
der Tons of Rock.
An AMERICAN SHIP BURNED At SEA,
sCHAEFFER STILL CHAMPION,

He Scores S0O'pPoints to SIosson as
+ a592-The Contest Variable During
: the Greater Part OF the Game-The
Wizard Has HIS own Way Near
the Close. II. '7
NEW York, Jan. 22.-At Lenox Lyceum
tonight thousand enthusiastic people
assembled to witness the contest between
George Slosson of New York, and Jacob
Sohaeffer of Chicago, for the billiard
championship of the world. Many ladies
were present. The match was for the
Brunswick-Balke Collendar company cup,
a stake of 81 600 side and the net re-
ceipts of the house. The game was a.
inch balk-line, 800 points up. The referee
was Pincus Levy of Philadelphia. This
was the thirty-third contest between
Schaeffer and Slosson. The betting men
seemed to favor Slosson at first, his adj
mirers offering five to four, but there were
Schaeffer men present who asked no Odds
Schaeffer opened the game and missed
the ball by a hairs breadth. Slosson
took the cue and scored two amidst loud
applause. Shaeffer failed to score by rea-
son of foul, and gave Slosson an oppor-
tunity to roll up five more. In retiring he
left the balls nearly punched in the lower
corner, and the wizard gave the spectators
an exhibition of his wonderful skill. He
ran 81 points, stopping on kiss Slos-
son caught the fever and keeping the balls
we'll in hand clicked along amidst appar-
emily difficult positions until 80 points had
been scored. On the thirty third shot he
slipped up on a delicate cross table shot.
Schaeffer opened brilliantly, but his cue
came in contact with the chalk in his hand
and his score was only increased by 8
points. Schasffer left the balls " ell to-
gether and Slosson played with them for
10 points. Schaeffer's play had been the
more brilliant thus far, and he fairly sur
passed himself in the next inning. His
masses, three in bunch, evoked applause.
He msssed on an easy line shot, having
scored SO points. The student beat this
by rolling up 81 points. Five innings had
been played and the score stood: Slosson
"a, Schaeffer So.
The next three innings were marked by
nervous play, both men missing compare
lively easy shots. The wizard scored but
three in the first trial, while Slosson
scored two. Goose eggs marked their
efforts in the seventh inning, and each
scored 6 in the eighth. In tho ninth the
the wizard rolled up % points. Then the
student added 65 buttons to his string.
The thirteenth shot was an important one.
The balls were to all appearances frozen
The referee had to light q match before he
could determine the point. They wore
free and Slosson continued to. his score.
Schaeffer opened the tenth inning with five
brilliant shots and then stopped. Slosson
made point and then could not score
because the shot had not been exactly
within the rules. This ended, the tenth
inning. Score: Slosson, 1877; Schaeffer,
105.
In the eleventh Schaeffer clicked off 70
points, ending with brilliant masse.
Slosson scored 10. A goose egg for Schaef-
fer followed and only one point was added
to slosson's score. The wizard got o to
his opponents in the next, but in the
fourteenth inning only secured 1 to Slss-
sons 5. Slosson gained 80 points in the
fifteenth, leaving his score 234 to Schaef-
fsr's 1872. Schaeffer's play in the sixteenth
inning was brilliant. By the aid of sew
eral well-executed masse shots he ran 1855
points. Slosson ran 90. The score now
was: Schaeffer 347 Slosson 256.
Schaeffer then scored 9 and stopped.
Slosson retired with two points and the
wizard fouled. Then the student rolled
up 38 points. Schaeffer then made 81
points and Slosson only "a. The twenti-
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points. In the next the wizard had an
other phenomenal run, this time 101
points. Slosson could only score 7. I'm
til the twentyfourth inning the game was
uninteresting, but then Slosson made a
number of brilliant four-cushion shots and
scored IS. Schaeffer then made
Sc. Slosson failed to score and the
wizard added So more. In the next
inning Slosson, by fine playing.
including draws, caroms, straight cushions
and twice-around, made 119 points. He
then stopped upon simple shot. In the
31st he made 81, giving him total of
sol, but in the next inning Schaeffer was
7S4 or within 16 points of running out the
game. Slosson then played good billiards
and in his next two innings made total
of AZ. In his next inning he made 20, but
in the 34th Schaeffer ran out the game
easily on simple rail shots. Schaeffer 800,
Slosson 500.
Schaeffer's average 90 GIT, Slosson's
II 7-13. Highest runs Schaeffer 155,
Slosson 119.