St. Paul daily globe., 1894-02-04
The RAPOLEOH'S VICTORY.
LITTLE IVES YiRS NE GREAT Bill
IkRD TOURNAMENT.
PLAYED a woNDERFg1 GAmR.

PAALED a WONDERFUL GAME.
Last Nights Scare Resaltei, Ives
600, Schaeier 434- Schacfer
viii Make Three Months
Foreign Tour for $4,0OO-The
Coming Boston Contest Bes,
Game Of the Three.
CINCINNATI, O.. Jan. 3.-The billiard
tournament closed tonight. The purs
of Sl.50O offered by the Brunswick
Bake II COlleEder company, and the
gate receipts were divided among the,
contestants. The receipts. clear or all
expenses, equaled $500, according 10
President Bensingcr'S statement. This
will give Ives $l.5JO; Schaefer. $500, and
SloSson, 500. SchaeTer tonight accepted
an offer OF $1,000 to make three
months foreign tour. The offer is
from kaStur Il Co., the agents
of the Brunswick Bake Il Coilender
company at Paris. Schaefer and Ives
leave at once for BUSton, where they
will meet SlosSon. who preceded them
yesterday. Tonight was the best of the
three. The house was filled with en-
thusiastic billiardiSts. who appreciated
every fine play and bestowed unstnted
applause impartially on both players.
Ives played a wonderful game. From
tle twelfth to the eighteenth inning he
was rather weak. but amply made up in
the three following inningS. He scored
437 points in the twenty innings, anu
with los In go finished i'll the twenty
first inning. cQualing
HIS GREATRUN
of last night, second only to the worlds
record, held 10y himself Schaefer was
weak on his stroke throughout, and to
this largely he attributed his defeat.
While Ives was making his wonderful
final score the most uncOncerned man in
The hall was Jake Schaefer He sat
watching the play with calm interest.
never betraying in his work or manner
(hat lie felt the slightest anxiety
for the result. Schaefer Jagged
behind for the first eight
innings, and then scored his best run
OF IS. and rapidly closed the gap be
tween himself and his opponent. In
the eighth he caught Ives amid tremen-
dOus cheering After that both wayered
IN the lead by few points untli the
twentieth inning was reached. At that
time the score stood: Ives, 437; Schaefer,
4S4-just three points difference. Ives
found the balls in good position, and
gradually, little by little, worked
them to the lower off-hand corner.
left. and nursed them softly to
and fro III identically the same manner
that he had done last night. He fairly
eXcelled himself in position play, and
kept the balls together with such per-
feet ease that the spectators went wild
with delight. At 80 Ives broke the
balls, and was Obliged 10 make several
difficult rouna-thetable shots before he
could get them into their former posi-
tinn on the lower balk line. where his
cue bail chased the object balls back
and forth
ACROSS TIE TABLE.
The most difficult position shots were
accomplished without apparent effort.
AL 100 cheers resUunded through the
theatre, and at every pretty shot that
followed. ives played with steady con-
tidencP, and ran out his string with the
balls in perfect puoitiOn for as many
more, it seemed, as the Young Napoleon
cared to make. Ives be runs were all
made in 4 similar manner. His
work throughout was careful and
conscientious. Sclaefer was cool and
collectt d, bit missed time and again for
lack OF force. The balls rolled badly
for bOtn men at times, particularly to-
wards The close of the game. Schaefer
taught Ives new one in the nineteenth
inning. Ives had just missed difficult
kiss shot. On his thirty-seventh shot,
Schaefer found the balls III almost eX-
actly the same position. but made
four-cuShion shot OF it. As the ball
car0med around the table. the wizards
purpose became evident to the specta-
tors, who roared their approval as the
last bali was touched.
Capt. Anson refereed, and Hiram
Bowman acted as marker. Score:
Ives, O. 5S, 81, !, ., 2, Q, 3d. So. 81. 49, 0.
II, ., , .. ~. !, lt3-6gu
schsefer-2, 3, q, l6 Al, 50, S, 6s, Al, o. 6. l.
0. {, t., i, 2, :, u, I:-434.
Highest runs-Iyes, 1853: Schaefer. IS.
AYerager uCs-Ives, :S3-'; Schaefer,:1 40.