Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-25
IVES WONDERFUL PLAYING.
He Breaks the Billiard Record With
81 Pun of 45G.


Frank c. Ives clinchei the champion
ship business in the billiard line last night
at Central Music Hall, Chicago. He broke
the high run record of 3fS made by Schaef-
er "Wednesday night. scoring in a single play
456 points. He also broke all public rec
ords for average. scoring AZ liz on the
nights play of 500 points and a grand
average of 30 4O-52.
His remarkable performance after ,n-
ferior billiard playing puts him so far in
the lead on the four nights play that the
odds are against Schaefer winning out.
The aggregate score stands q, 200 for Ives.
and 2.ta5 for Schaefer, a difference of sos
points to be made up in the closing game
tonight.
1t was a case of the pupil beating his
master. The wizard invented the anchor
nurse, taught it to Ives and the young Ma
poleon of billiards coolly stepped in and
beat Schaefer at his own game.
The latest record breaking run was made
in the sixteenth inning, after Ives had got
balls were safely anchored on the lower
end rail and Ives kept them there until he
had piled up 456 on his score.
Between the century marks he took a
drink and the spectators wildly appiaudei
at brief intervals. At 444 the balls froze.
difficulty. The anchor remained as secure
at iJ6, but Ives failed to hit the first ba m
He was going ahead, however, when
Schaefer, who had been standing all tbe
time anxiously waiting for the end started
forward, and said with smile: Sit down
You did not hit the first ball"
Ives made bluff at Directing, but took
a rest.
Schaefer looked pale and careworn when
he stepped on the platform with his trusty
cue TO resume his four thousand point con-
test at billiards with Frank Ives The
score stood: SchaefeF, 2 2lS; Ives . 400
The players started out to play inferior
billiards before the largest assembly which
has yet turned out to see the match Ives
went for the FIRST four innings on the east
est kind of caroms and draws, and
Schaefer die little better until the fifth ir
Eihg, when he ran 60 buttons. He was cut
short on kiss on a position shot.
ives picked up ~ in the seventh inning
on steady billiards, and the wizard came
back at him with brilliant break of ia
nearly all scored on the anchor nearest
at the upper end of the table.
In the tenth inning Ives played brilliantly,
ali over the table and beat Schaefer's high
run OF ia by two points.
The game became intensely interesting
when Schaefer closed the fourteenth in.
brought his total UP to 2,65I. Ives score
was 2.66o and it was still anybody's game
In this inning Schaefer made the prettiesf
two-cushion carom round the bend that
has been made so far IN the SERIES
In the fifteenth inning the young Ma
poieon recovered his stroke and run up "A
in all styles of play. He followed this mn
with mis- great Misunderstanding run.
Following is the score by innings:
Schaefer, 2.22S-10. 2, IL. g. 3D. 81 ia %
8. w. II, :, 2, &C. IS, g. Grand total 2s95
Total for night ACT. Grand average u
4S-52. Average for night. - 3-l6.
Ives, 2.4Oo-6. Z, o, 4, -, 2 a. IL I ZIG
:, ., 4. Z, "a. i56. ;. Grand total. $3.50 To
tai Tor night $40. Grand average 80 4O-5o
Average for night, AZ liz.