Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-01-10
IVES AVERAGE 100.
He Ties the High Mark Made by Schae-
fer I'm New York

He Ties the High Mark Made by Schae.
fer I'm New York.
Frank Ives defeated George Slosson in
the second game of the six-day tournament
at Central Music Hail. Chicago, last night
the young man making the splendid run
Of 4s7 On the anchor nurse. The score was
Ives. 60; Slosson. 1tD.
The crowd was not as large as that Of
Monday night, but those who saw the game
were not disappointed. as first-class bill
lizards were shown by both artists from
start to finish.
Ives won the lead. but accomplished
nothing. and Slosson only went one better
In the second inning the Napoleon" made
a start which promised to develop into a
run Of no mean proportions. He gathered
the balls well in hand. but misjudged a
draw shot. giving place to Slosson.
The gentleman from New York changed
his cue. using one which had a new tip
and said he felt like winning the second
game IL the balls rolled decently for him.
1t certainly looked that way when he be :
gan to chase the balls at the upper end of
the table from rail to rail. He played with
less stiffness than Monday night and went
out with - to his credit. missing a kiss
shot because he judged the cue ball to be
frozen to the cushion.
The young Napoleon was not to be out
done. however. when IL came to making a
run. He counted as far as 16 on miscella-
draw. Slosson's score in the same inning
was 8. but he did his best to touch the
balls on a difficult center-table masse.
Ives stayed at the table in the fourth in
ming until 20 had been called by Charles
Matthews He made a bad miss on an at
tempt to get the balls together by a round
the-table shot
Slosson's turn came for another run. He
gathered ha h. 70 a of hot
great laugh greeting his narrow escape
from being kissed on. In this inning Slos-
son was awarded an outburst of applause
for making the greatest cushion carom
which has been seen at this or the last
Schafer-1ves tournament The balls were
near the corner at the upper end, but the
only way he could count was to make
two-cushion carom from the other end of
the table. He did IL to perfection. On the
seventy-third shot he would have been re-
tired but for a scratch. He stopped at 81.
This put him In the lead, with IS to spare
Another exhibition Of anchor-nurse bill
lizards was given by Ives in the sixth in
ming. After the play had become monoto-
nous some OF the spectators left the house.
The special interest of those who remained
seemed to be not so much in watching the
walking Of the player from one side of the
table to the other and the movement of the
cue as in applauding the century calls of
Charlie Matthews. Slosson sat down, fold
ed his arms and smiled philosophically as
The anchor must CO." he said The
only game is cushion caroms and the peo-
pie must get educated up to the game"
At 81 Ives had the balls perfectly anchor
ed and scored 1O1 without moving them a
fraction of an inch. At 132 the balls froze
on him and he was compelled to masse
breaking the anchor. Another freeze con-
fronted him after two shots and he broke
the balls still more on a masse to extricate
himself. The Napoleon, however, had set
his heart on running the game out with
the tiresome combination of pedestrianism
and forty-fourth shot, twelve from the time
the balls were frozen, he had put the red
and white in the invisible pocket made by
When a perfect anchor was assured the
New Yorker started d laugh by making a
play to encase his cue.
The monotony was broken at 42S, after
Ives had scored 2Si consecutive shots at
anchor. The balls froze and at 430 he got
on the wrong side of the balls. They broke
badly, and that was the end of the anchor
for the night. The spectators were glad,
because from that time on to the end of
the game they were treated to some spen-
did billiards all over the table. A long
draw with the left hand in the center Of the
table was the feature.
In running out the game in six innings
Ives tied Schaefer's record average of 100,
made in New York.
Following is the score by innings: Ives,
o, Is. s6, %. o, 4S1-6OO; high runs, 4S7;
average. 100. Slosson. /. -. g. 81, O-l69;
high runs. 81; average 30 4-5.