St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-14

TIE balls well in control. AT 80 they
We're well in the same anchor space
again, but only for two shots. His
stroke was now good for the first time
and he was making very effective use Of
the short side rail and corner drives.
He had reached rs before rcsorting
To 4 long drive. Then came two of
them. al 80 a third, at 81 a fourth, and at
81 TIE red went around three cushions
and returned precisely TO the desired
spot. Al 100 the balls were still on the
lower rail, and, as Ives passed the CEN
fury mark, the applause WAS generous.
Ills play was now perfection itself, and
almost every shot was applauded. He
was still using the rails nearest by.
but his long drives were faultless
when brought into play. At l43
he lost the lower rail. but
at l52 had it back again as good as ever.
Ten shots later he changed over 10 the
side rail and nurScd on the fourteen
lEch line tor i dozen shots, then ut lI5
had tnem back on The end. Everything
was going his way, and there was APP
pnrently no limit TO his capacity to
make billiards. For time he went
into the open table and was there at
200, but at POS he missed side draw by
10 means difficult, and sat down
amid the warm plaQditS of the delighted
spectators.
Score: Ives, 400; Schaefer. 252 Schaef-
er did not show the least sign of dis
cOmpusure. On the contrary, his open
ing shots in the latter half OF the twelfth
inning were difficult aud brilliant, and
he clicked of pretty run of 81
before he failed on KISS shot. Ives
was still at concert pbch, and opehed
out his thirteenth inning with strong
array of high-class billiards, nursing
sklllTuily near the lower rail, but gen.
orally on wide lines. The balls
at 20 were within radius OF
eight inches, in fact too close. when
Ives, to avoid Il push, failed in force and
missed. Score. Ives asa, Schaefer 2S4.
The bunch was intact as Schaefer found
it, but headed the wrong way. and he 1T
once worked the balls TO The head of the
table. where they were soon iii fine
shape, but al 26 lie stopped by missing
lwo-cuShion shot. Ills fourteenth
gave him but l, and when Ives banked
in his fifteenth, Schaefer had the benefit
of scratch on his second shot.
He protited by this luck. ana
once more dlu some good play
ing on the lower rail in and
out OF the anchor space at the right.
He left this after il little and took the
balls over 10 the left-hana lower rail,
where he worked the corner in great
shape. He Was making a lot of billiards
| off big scratch. but he was making
them beautifully. and his admirers i'll
the biz crowd yelled with delight as he
kept Oh with his pretty WORK. He
failed at 1874, OIL SLOW, careful. long
cushion sIoT, 2cnre: les, 491; Schae-
Ter 80. ives let go rather easily at
| Ill his sixteenth inning, and Schaefer
| did as badly in his half,
MISSING a ONE-CUSHION SHOT
that would have given him fine position.
For his seventeenth Ives. in three shots,
had the balls punched OH the lower rail.
where nearly all the billiards Of the
night had been made, and now he did
| some good nursing Oh the fourteen
| inch line. At 30 he left the line and
| worked the lower end. lie looked as
though he would run out The game, but
at 81 stumbled OH twO-cuShiOn Sh0t.
Score: Ives, SO; Schaefer, AIT. The
| latter half OF the seventeenth gave
Schaefer but Is. q Single-cushion draw
proving his downfall. There was safety
| play OH both sides for the eighteenth
| inning, but Ives cut loose i'll the nine
teenth with all almost hopeless twice
across shot, which he missed, and left
| fine set up, but Jake again stopped at
| the uulucky number, this time leaving
the balls together Ives got them lined
| forthwith, but counted by Il wonderfully
thin one. Again, at Z, they lined in the
middle of the table. and this time
/ they were safe indeed. By far the
i piuckiest and best Shot OF the
game was made on the fourteenth count
| by Schaefer in the nineteenth inning.
lie sent his ball around four cushions
with heavy reverse twist and in count
ing obtained excellent position. The
game was new at an intensely exciting
| stage. as Schaefer passed to his last
string, the crowd hanging upon every
! shot with breathleSs interest, and at
every good stroke burst into applause.
He was playing like man whose life
was at stake, and making everything
dead right. AT 100 the balls were badly
spread, but he went after them in every
conceivable shape. and made them, too.
while the crowd yelled itself hOarSe. At
| 1l2 he was
KISSED OUT OF A COUNT
on a rounG-table shot, but he had passed
| Ives, 5S5 to 5S4. Now. indeed, the
strain was something terrific upon play
ers and spectators. With but IL to go,
Ives went to bat amid perfect silence,
and when at two points he missed cas-
lily there were groanS and cheers in
equal proportion. He left the balls
| hard for Schaefer, whose miss seemed
| w OStIlS tiiS AOk thO LSoSO lOl
Ives was good. He needed only ID.
When the marker had called Is the balls
were on the rail nearly. but not
quite in line. The shot was not hard
one for any player. Ives took the bridge
and played a 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 Schae-
ier's ball out in the middle of the table
1t was tremendously hard shot. almost
impossible, but he drew from white to
red and counted. Two thousand people
were standing OH their feet
and shouting The next shot was
also long and very difficult
draw, but there was position in it and
Jake Went out after it. He made it eX-
actly right, and while the spectators
held their breath lie went on like man
of iron, and won the most remarkable
game of billiards Oh record. His run
was 10, and he had beaten Ives just L
point in 600. Then the crowd went all
10 pieces, and Schaefer's feet did not
touch the floor for the next five minutes.
The last shot was made at 30. Score
Scharfer-0, 4. l6 80. /, 0. 50. q, :, 4, So. 30,
&c, !, l34. :, -, liz. 0, Is; total, so.
Ives, /, b, Is, 10, 10, %, 81 0. u, %. 203,
Is, l. Q, 3, 81, }, O. Z, !, 12; total, 500.
Averages Schaefer. u G-22; ives 81 5-22
High Nuns-Schaefer, 13i, H.; Ives, 203