Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-12-02
IVES PHENOMENAL RUN,
The Napoleon Tries tho Anchor and Counts
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CHICAGO, Nov 25.--In Friday nights
billiard game Ives did not play like
himself for the first half hour lie
missed several simple plays, and with
the exception of thirty-two in the fifth
inning, which he laboriously piled up,
he did next to nothing until the sew
enth when he broke, after "a neat
work. on n back draw. His run was
seventy-two. Scbaetfer did not do
much better at the start, but now he
got in some of his best licks. He
found the balls in the upper left
hand corner, and after playing them in
and out for q dozen points he got an
anchor position. But they were ut the
wrong end of the table for him, and
while he got 80 on account of that po-
sition. lie did not hold them there as
solidly as is his wont when he nails
them in the lower right hand corner
He made ~ on the run. Ives run off
Is in the tenth, which was the result
OF accurate driving of the first object
ball for position. In the twelfth Ives
tried a little 'con" game. He came
pretty close, but the position of the
balls demonstrated that he failed to
count He was forging right ahead
with the next stroke when Schaeffer.
who had his eagle eye open, dropped
his cue on the table and demanded Il
decision of the referee. mo count"
said Mr. Rhines, and the Napoleon got
in a subdued but vigorous kick.
Both men played pretty game
evenly from the start. but Schaeffer
had fewer small runs than Ives the
6rst of the game and he gradually di-
minished Ives lead of 1ss After two
hours play there was only fourteen
points between the players Then
Ives astonished the people and awaken
ed tumuituous applause by getting the
balls in Schaetfer's pet position-an
anchor in the lower right hand corner
--and playing them as cleverly
IS Schaeffcr ever did himself.
Without budg,ng the object balls he
played back and forth on them until
the people grew tired of the monotony
and their eyes weakened by becoming
chained to the same spot. The red
ball was tight TO the cushion all the
time; the other object was frozen to
the side and stood two inches from the
cushion. Ives shot from the lower
right hand corner and the lower left
hand corner alternately, and so deli
cate was his touch that the red could
not have been more stationary Ii
riveted to the spot. The other ball
shivered with each contact Of the cue
ball, but never moved. 1t was on the
forty-second shot that he made an
anchor.
When 100 was called there was
loud cheering. Ives took a
drink of water, went at IL
again and rolled up another 100. Still
the balls had not been moved from po-
sition; 100 more and the applause was
terrific. Schaeffer's worlds mark Of
343 was reached and passed; 400 was
scored and every body but Ives was ex-
cited. and yet tho balls had not moved
from their first position. 1t seemed as
II he might go on this way until eter-
nifty and SO he might IL the cue ball
would not freeze. This 1t didson the
444th shot and Ives scored the next on
q difficult out and In masse. The
anchor was broken. Ives now had IL
to go to end the nights play. He quit
five from the goal on masse, his ball
being between the other two and all
three being close together on the rail.
It was easy aud Ives claimed he
made II, but Keferee Rhines said no.
Schaeffer began playing calmly but not
effectively. tie made but six. Then
Ives rolled up the needed five by all
arouud shots. lie was not only the
winner Of the evening but, In every
body's judgment. the winner OF the
the match. there being but one more