The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-12
IVES WINS THE FIRST
But He Had to Play Wonderful
Billiards to Beat SlOssOn.
Opening Game of the Great Three-COr-
nered, Balk-Line Match Won with
the High Average of 90.


cornered billiard tournament between
Jacob Schaefer George Slosson and Frank
C. Ives was auspiciousIy begun in the con-
cert hall of Madison-square Garden to-
night. The hall crowded with
thusiastic audience. Promptly at o'clock
Slosson and Ives appeared. Maurice DAILY
announced that "Budd" SchOfield had been
chosen marker and William Sexton referee
Slosson won the bank and selected the
white ball. He was noticeably nervous at
the outset and there apparent lack
of confidence in the open-table play which
he launched out on. He failed on an easy
cross-table shot after scoring ten. Ives
was considerably more at ease than is his
wont when he took up his cue and began
open play with great rapidity. He got
the balls in the corner of the table
the third shot, and had rolled off
twenty-four by careful nursing in a min
ute. Then the balls became scattered, and
he ran twenty, mostly on open table play
failing on an easy carom. The balls
left very comfortably for SlOsson, and he
proceeded to pile them up. His sixteenth
shot was a difficult masse, which caused
considerable applause and his twenty-sev-
enth a long draw. He nursed the balls
along the lower end Of the rail, and kept
them together with great skill. There was
great applause when he passed the fifty
mark Slosson who by this time had en-
tire control of his nervousness continued
in-and-out playing. and ran his string up to
seventy-five. The seventy-seventh was
open play. He fell down on easy carom
on the eighty-fifty shot.
Ives, in his third shot got the balls under
perfect control in the upper left-hand cor
ner. He carried them along the rail for
fourteen more, and held them on the lower
rail, going from right TO left and from left
to right until he had rolled up siXty-two.
His sixty-third shot was a long carom,
and his siXty-fourth an enormous and diff
cult masse In the sixty-siXth he punched
the balls together in the lower right-hand
corner within the line and added fourteen
more to his string without perceptbly NOV
ing the balls. The Napoleon was playing
beautiful billiards, and there was a spon-
taneous cheer from his ,.'rooters,' when he
passed the hundred mark. He failed at
comparatively simple draw at III.
From this time up to the end of the
tenth inning no remarkable runs were
made, the score standing: Ives, 391; SlosSon,
336. Slosson opened the eleventh inning with
a beautifully executed blank, and there was
a look of positive tranquility on 1ves's coun-
tenance as he made three open table shots
and began to nurse them the upper
rght-hand rail- and reeled off counts by the
score. He was warming up 10 rGlId rkt1Dle
work, and seemed to voluntarily abandon
his good position for the purpose of show
ing what fine work he could do around the
table and at open nursing. He Seemd able
TO get the balls at any rail he chose aL will
He missed at the 141st shot when the score
stood: Ives, 5S2; Slosson, 1886.
Slosson was in his usual condition of mind
when he started the thirtieth inning, and
there was great deal of applause over his
skillful rail playing. In fact, there was
more enthusiasm over this inning than over
any of the others. Slosson did everything
that possibly could be done on a billiard
table, and seemed TO be playing an exhibit
ton game. He rolled up 16i, in which there
were many beautiful shots, but failed to
get beyond the balk on the one-hundred-
ard-sixty-fourth. Ives was -.lgetty while
Slcsson was getting in mis- fine work, but
settled down with q g-to-run-out ex-
preston that his play did not belle. He
fairly surpassed himself, and his admirers
grew wildly hilarious while it was seen
that in all likelihood he would run out.
The young man gave a marvellous exhibi-
ton of open-table Eursing. and seemed 10
be perfectly Indifferent whether he gain ed
the rail or not. He made 6S and finished
his string. Score by innings:
Ives-44, III. o. ST, l, &c, 0, 0. 0, 96. 141, g.
900.
Highest runs, Ill, III; average, so.
Slosson-10, IS, o. O. 81, g. III, 35, o. 1, 0,
1f4-50O
Highest runs, 16f III; average, Al 1-3
Tomorrow night Slosson will meet
Schaefer.