The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-14
THE WIZARD IN LUCK
Won the Last Game from Ives by
a Score Of 600 TO $50.
Chicago Three-Cornered Balk-Line Bill
lizard Match Results i'm a Tie, TO Be
Played Off Monday Night.

CHICAGO, Jan. 13.-Schaefer and Ives
wound up the balk-line billiard tournament
tonight before a crowded house. II was
their second meeting since the adoption OF
the rule barring the anchor nurse, and IL
devolved upon Schaefer to play good bill
lizards in order 10 have any chance at the
sweepstakes of 81 500 and 80 per cent. net
receipts. He must win tonight in order
to tie Ives. as the latter had won all his
games thus far, while Schaefer lost 10
Ives last Wednesday night In the event
OF tie it was understood the game would
be played off next Monday evening. In the
bank for lead Ives won. and made the lay
off, The balls lined on his second shot. but
a well conceived kiss saved him good posi-
ton. He stopped, at five on a hes'd masse
and left Schaefer an easy draw. which he
missed as he also did on the second inning.
Billiards were slow. At the first call the
score stood Ives. 10; Schaefer. Al
In his seventh inning the Wizard" made
50. putting the score 1876 to III in his favor.
Ives came to time with 81. At the end OF
the tenth inning the score stood: Ives, 2O6;
Schaefer, 1G6. Schaefer responded with
run of So and passed Ives, 252 TO 206. Undis-
mayed, Ives took hold of his cue in the
twelfth inning and 2O3, while the hall
rang with applause. His exhibition in
volved every known style of billiards and
the friends of the champion began TO fear
for their favorite. Score: Ives. 4O'; Schaef-
er, 252
Schaefer did not show the least sign of
discomposure. On the contrary, his open
ing shots in the latter half Of the twelfth
inning were difficult and brilliant, gand he
clicked off a pretty run of 81 before he
failed on a kiss shot. Ives was still at con-
cert pitch and opened out his thirteenth
inning with a strong array OF nlgn-class
billiards, nursing skdlfully near the lower
rail. but generally on wide lines The balls
at 10 were within radius of eight Inches,
in fact too close, when Ives, to avoid
push, failed in force and missed score:
Ives, 4S4; Schaefer, 2Si.
The bunch was intact as Schaefer found
it. but headed the wrong way, and he at
once worked the balls TO the head OF the
table, where they were soon In finA shape
At twenty-six he stopped by miss.neSa two
cushion shot. His fourteenth gave him but
one, and when Ives BANKED in his fifteenth,
Schaefer had the benefit OF scratch on his
second shot He profited by this luck and
once more did some good playing on the
lower rail in and out OF the ancnor space
at the right. He left this after little
and took the balls over to the left hand
lower rail- where he worked the corner IN
great shape. He was making a big lot
of billiards off of a big scSatch, but he was
making them beautifully, and his admirers
i'm the big crowd yelled with delight as he
kept on with his pretty work He failed
at 1874 on slow, careful, long-cushion
SHOT. Score: Ives 491; Schaefer, AS.
Ives let go rather easily at three in his
sixteenth inning, and Sclaeter uu DIS Dduiy
i'm his half For his seventeenth Ives, in
three shots, had the balls punched on the
lower rail, where nearly all the billiards. or
the night had been made, and now ne di a
some good nursing the fourteen-inch
line At fifty he left the line and worked
the lower end. He looked as though ne
would run out the game. but at eighty-one
stumbled on a two-cushion shot. score;
Ives, SIS; Schaefer, 4fI.
There was safety play on both sides for
the eighteenth inning, but Ives cut loose
In the nineteenth with an almost hopeless
twice-across shot, which he missed ard left
a fine set-up, but Jake again stopped at the
unucky number this time leaving the balls
together Ives got them lined forthwith'
but counted by a wonderfully thin one;
Again at seven they lined in the middle or
the table and this time they were safe IN
deed. BY far the Quickest and best shot OF
the game was made on the fourteenth
count by Schaefer I'm the nineteenth inning.
He sent his own ball around four cushions
with heavy reverse twist and, In counting,
obtained excellent position. The game Was
now at intensely exciting stage , as
Schaefer passed to his last string. The
crowd watched every shot with GREATNESS
interest. and at every good stroke burst
into applause He was playing IKE man
whose life was at stake. and making ev-
erything dead right. At one hundred the
balls were badly spread. but he went after
them in every conceivable shape and made
hoarse At 1l2 he was kissed out of count
on q -the-table shot, but he had
passed Ives having $50 to 5A.
terrific on PLAYERS and spectators With but
sixteen to go Ives went to bat amid per-
feet silence and when, at two points, he
missed easily, there were gr5ans and cheers
i'm equal proportion He left the balls hard
for Schaefer, whose miss seemed
took to- S9 hold with it'll grim determination.
He needed only fourteen. When the marker
had called l3 the balls were on the rail.
nearly but not quite in line. The shot was
not a hard one for any player. Ives took
the bridge and played cushion shot to the
end rail. He missed by hair Now the
two object balls were left frozen to the
side rail over two feet apart and Scha efer's
ball ont in the middle of the table. 1t was
tremendously hard shot almost impossi-
BILE but he drew from white TO red and
counted Two thousand people were stand
ing on their feet and shouting. The next
shot was also a long and very difficult
draw but there was position in IL ana
Jake went out after il. He made il ex-
actly right and while the spectators held
their breath he went on like man of iron
and won the most remarkable game of bill
lizards on record His run was fifteen and
he had beaten Ives just one point in 600.
Then the crowd went all to pieces, and
Schaefer's feet did not touch the floor FOR
the next five minutes The last shot was
made at twenty minutes past IL O'Clock.
Score:
Schaefer-0. 0, 16. 80, l. 0. SO. "a. 2. 4, Sc 80,
o. 1, 134, 2 13, o, 13 H. O. Is Total GOO.
Ives, /. 80. 49, is. 10. g. 81. o, II. %, 203,
70. Z. O. 8, 81, 2, 0, Z, 2. 1S Total. 599
Average-Schaefer, q 6-22: Ives. q 5-22.
High runs-Schaefer. 1S4 and liz; Ives, 203.