New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-14
BILLIARD HONORS EVEN.
IVES MAKES A POOR SHOWING AGAINST
THE WIZARD
sCHAEFER WINS THE THIRD GAME OF THE TIL
ANGULAR MATCH BY A WIDE MARGIN
spECr ATORs DISAPPOINTED BY
IvEs'S POOR WORK.

ANGULAR MATCH BY WIDE MARGIN
SPECTATORS DISAPPOINTED BY
IvEss POOR WORK
billiards Is mighty uncertain" messenger
boy said coming out of the hall last night where
great game OF billiards was promised There
was more truth than good English in the re-
mark. and many who read of Ives's average OF
fifty on Monday night and who last night went
to Madison Square Garden Concert Hall and paid
50 for a 81 ticket rather than stand in line ana
SILVER and saw the same Ives make five goose
eggs" three runs Of one point each and three
other runs Of less than ten, think they did not
get their moneys worth, and that billiards is
mighty uncertain"
The attendance was much larger than at the
preceding games, every seat In the house being
occupied. az well as much of the standing room.
1t was the third of the series Of six games to
be played by the billiard giants-Ives Schaefer
and Sosson-for money stake Of 81, 500. and like
the preceding games the fourteen-inch bak
line game Ives defeated Slosson In the first
game on Monday night and Tuesday Slos-
son won from Schaefer. Last night the victor
Ives. and the vanquished, Schaefer crossed
cues and while the contest under ordinary cir
cumstances would have attracted much atten-
ton, the fact that at the game between these
two experts in Central Music Hail. Chicago, on
November q. Ives made his run Of 45S, the
largest record at the game made this
contest doubly interesting
At $40 o'clock Maurice DAILY introduced the
players named BILLY Sexton referee and Budd
Schoheld marker. Ives won the bank, chose the
spot ball, and started business by making a
miss. Schaefcrs eighth shot drew the first
blood in the way Of applause. The player made
fourteen points, all along the upper rail, and
missed simple draw
Ives got another goose egg his second
inning. missing "cross the table" shot. Ivess
chewing gum now came into evidence. his jaws
working rapidly while Schaefer made his six
points
In the third inning Ives made his first count:
scored eight points, and fell down on Tasse.
Schaefer followed with thirty nine made rapidly.
and then Ives tried once more After making
eleven points the balls were found frozen" and
he made brilliant bank carrom-he ran up
forty-three points, and missed on a simple shot
from the side rail-
schaefer made six and again missed on a
possible kiss in the fifth inning. He expected 1t
at one Of the upper corners but there was no
kiss at the corner and he was cut short with
points.
Thirty-one points were all Schaefer made on
his nth inning. when Ives chewing vigorously
made only three. Schaefer followed with thirty
two, and Ives's harvest on the seventh inning
third zero Schaefer bringing up his end
with twenty-four points antrim
Ives made five and again missed on a masse
and Jake started his eighth by making the
masse shot which Ives had missed; but the play
netted him only five. leaving the game on even
innings, 66 to 1871 In favor Of Schaefer.
On the ninth inning Ives made sixteen; people
began to leave the hall. and from the rear Of
the house came a hoarse stage whisper. which
some one Interpreted "Hippodrome."
Things looked better In the tenth inning. when
Ives got the balls straddled the line
the side rail and knocked seventy-seven out Of
Them before they broke eighty-one was his run,
q a figure.
Schaefers first three shots In the tenth inning
were surprises. The spectators "Ohd think
ing the shots missed when In each instance.
the ball took the cushion and carromed. lie
made seventy-eight before he missed. and then
Ives chewing at the rate Of fifty strokes a
minute went to the bat and struck one
Schaefers third shot in this inning. a combina-
tlon masse and cushion. earned the loudest APP
Tlnuse cf the evening. but the player missed
again on easy shot and added only nine to
his
schaefer's eighty first point in the thirteenth
inning also appauded because with IL he
reached Ives's high mark. but he Just passed II
and no more, for ne went down after scoring
eighty-two and that remained the banner run Of
the evening. Interest began 10 wane when, in
the next inning. Ives missed an easy draw, and
It plain that he could not win. The most
remarkable innings were the eighteenth and
nineteenth. In the former Ives made a zero and
SO did s5chaefer: In the latter Ives scored one
point and Schaefer none. Then with 346 to his
credit. Ives made another lone point and
Schaefer and the spectators ran out Schaefers
average for the game was twenty; 1vess. seven
teen and seven-twenteths.
The contestants have now each a game TO their
credit ana the games to come will be for blood
and there will possibly be less shots OF the
easy" kind missed.
Among the spectators were Dr. Knapp. NJ
Bensnger Paul Dana, General Horace Porter.
Frederick Vanderbilt. II. b. Hollins. DR.. Jen
nlngs. Orvc eddie. DIR. Ramsy, Frank Sanger,
William Steinway, Dr. I.ennox. Colonel John r.
Fellows Colonel Ochiltree. Major Moses r.
Handy and Commissioner DAILY. The score by
innings follows:
Ives-O. 0. s. a, g. o. 8, 1s. 81. l. 49, 81. 49, o. l5
49, q. |. l-3.I.
schaefer-li, g. g. g. 81 80. "a. s. 81 rs. o. TO- 50.
&c, q. so. 6S. o. 0. $500.