The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-14
A GREAT BILLIARD MATCH
GARNER AND sCHAEFER HAZE Il
HOT BATTLE IN BOSTON,

HOT RATTLE IN BOSTON.
In One Run schaefer Made Great PLAY
With His Running Ball--when His Op-
ponent Was Ahead of Him He Made a
Magnificent Run.
Boston, April 13.-Devotees of bill
liards were delighted some weeks ago
when through the exertions of John J.
Murphy, the manager of the tourna-
ment, it was decided to give Bostonians
the cushion game. The tournament
which was opened tonight by Schaefer
and GARNER and won by the former is
the second. GARNER, Schaefer, Ives
and DAILY are to play six nights. Three
hundred points constitute an evenings
play and what the men seek is the
biggest slice of a purse Of $4,000 and a
sweepstakes of $3.50 each. At 8 o'clock
when about 300 spectators were seated
in Bumstead Hall Shaefer played the
balls. He won the bank, but failed to
score.
Then Jake started in on an easy
leave, kept the balls at the uper end
| of the table and clicked out 35 During
this run Schaefer displayed his adroit-
ness as gatherer. Five different
times the object ball was sent around
the table and brought back to the up
per end. GARNER made four and then
slipped up on a simple return bank
fA,,, 5a ~,
inning. GARNER won applause by a
beautiful return bank and an all-around
the table shot. He slipped UP after
scoring 4. schaefer made / in the
fourth. The balls rolled atrociously
for GARNER, but he brought the house
down by his consummate skill. He
scored u and gave place to Schaefer
| on an around the table shot Schaefer
sat down in the fifth on the same kind
of try GARNER put UP 6. GARNER
made 3, playing in the hardest. kind Of
| luck.
In the twelfth Schaefer made and
GARNER 4, Of which was a sensa-
| tiona1 follow. The thirteenth was pro-
ductive Of but for the wizard. 1t was
| barren for the Belgian. The score was
| Schaefer 80, GARNER 80. When the six
| LSSuIl CQSlSu luG UdllS W6l0
rolling Just right for Jake. He nursed
them at the left rail for sixteen rounds
and then brought down the house by
driving the object balls one the length
| Of thetable and the other across for a
gathering. GARNER scored l. Jake
| again tried for run in the seven
| teenth, but u was the best he could
do. GARNER seemed to have better luck
in this inning. The spheres did his bid
ding for 10. Jake slipped UP in the
next inning and GARNER made 1. Jake
scored 1 goose egg. So did GARNER.
| The twentieth was made melancholy
| by Schaefer with another cipher. Gar
nier scored Z. Jake pulled himself to-
gether in the twenty-first, but slipped
up through lack of force on s. GARNER
made 8, 1 of them beautiful draw
ing cushion. The twenty-second was
productive of but for Jake GARNER
| failed. Schaefer made another in the
! twenty third and GARNER, by some ex-
| tremely clever billiard scored II. The
totals were at this point Schaefer 148,
GARNER 96.
| Jake got UP against the rail for
cushion carom in the twenty fifth and
made them whisper for 27 scores be-
fore the position became such that he
had to send one down the table. But
| this did not stop the count. He was in
| for another rund and he kept the
spheres a-clicking until he had 80 to
his credit. He sat down on an all
around the table shot.
| GARNER could not seem to keep them
together and the came hard. In four
| innings after his run of 80 Schaefer
| only scored s. He put up l in the
twenty sixth, in the tweny-seventh
and goose-eggs in the next two. Gar
nier ciphered in the twenty-sixth, made
1 in the twenty seventh IL in the twen-
ty-eighth and nothing in the twenty
| ninth Jake then cuddled the balls at
the head of the table and knocked out
| 16 in the thirtieth. GARNER made 5.
| The totals were now: Schaefer 20Ss
| GARNER 121.
| A kiss cushion shot was the feature
| Of the thirty-first inning. 1t was made
by GARNER, who rolled up after Schae-
| fer had failed to score. Little was
| done except in the thirty-fourth, when
| GARNER made IL, until the thirty
eighth. Schaefer opened with a run of
49, and GARNER followed with "a, being
stopped by miscue when he had them
| in countable position.
The game from the thirty eighth was
| slow and uninteresting until the opens
ing of the fifty-sixth. With the score
2e9 to 222 in favor of Schaefer Jake col
lected the balls at the head Of the table
and revived in the way of run of 31s
which finished the game.