The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-03
IVES BREAKSTwO RECORDS
HE PLArs 4 SUPERB GAME WITH
sUTfOY IN THE BIG TOURNEH.

played his frat and only afternoon Ramo In the
big billiard tourney at tho Madison square Gar.
den concert hall yesterday. and he furnished q
delightful treat To billiard lovers. His opponent
was George Sutton, with whom no had once
played an exhibition game many years ago In
his native State. Michigan. Sutton was in
jovial humor, and so was Ives.
Having hacked away a chunk Of his indispon-
sable chewing gum In his check. Ivos opened up
the play with 8 singles. and Sutton nippcd z
on tho open table. Then Ives took n fresh
start and began to toy with the balk line
nurse. at which ho is an adept, but dropped IL
when he found that the balls were not warmed
mp yet. and took to open play instead. He
nettod 20. and the reason II wasn't q good deal
moro was that no player can nurse when tho
ivories are cold. Sutton picked up a double of -
carroms and gave another chance at the globes to
his young opponent. And the Young Napoleon
was not slow to avail himself OF 1t. He played
all sorts of brilliant open carroms, and kept
them up faultlessly until no had passed the half
hundred point. Then he toyed with the globes
near the top rail, varying draws with MASSES In
his close work, but tripping finally on n miscuo
after he had scored 81. His splendid skill ut
the drive" shot was the feature of this little
display. 1t sent him around the first wire with
q total OF ll5 to Sutton's 90.
Sutton demonstrated that he could play tho
drive ably, too. when 1t came toHis turn, and he
also made manifest the fact that his knowledge
OF position play is adequate to tho requirements
Of professional billiards He had his nerve"
with him. as usual. He rolled up q tasteful
group of 80 before Ives again had m inning.
The lattor started out at once for another attack
on the high run OF 20 held by Wizard"
schaofer. The peerless perfection of his drives
reused the plaudits of the onlookers. Those
carroms yiel ed matchlcssp position and afforded
m ODDOrfunitv tn him IN dieDlav Mt fiunaa tho
remarkable delicacy with which no can nurse
In the middle OF the table. He succeeded in his
object this time. and a rousing burst of hand
clapping greeted him as he reached go.
Ives kept them going right on in an effort to
attain a triple figure run. In this difficult feat
he succeeded. too. and ono ardent adhcrent in
the gallery let loose an car-splitting yell Of JOY.
The youngstor retained perfect control of the
globes still, and when for q moment he lost po-
sition one OF those matchlessd drives brought the
ivories back into subsection at once. He knocked
out Schaefer's other record run OF Ill, made at
Chicago. and built u now world 8 record of his own
that was perfect in The beauty of its execution.
IT was an unprecedented break Of lao, and 1t
was cut short by IA single cushion fine shot when
the bject ballslay near the top rail. 1t took just
twcnty-one minutes Tor Ives TO pile up the cen.
fury run. and he received an ovation when the
score was called:
lives. 255; Sutton, So"
Sutton executed three successive and very
neat singles. and then Ives made n spectacular
kiss" shot from u ball frozen to the side rail to
snother ball on the left corner. his own ball
rail. Sutton then wedged in a creditable double.
figure, cluster. distinguished Tor fine nursing.
earned by nmbideNtrous play and netting 80
carroms. 1t enc bled him to turn his first wire,
and the scorer called:
Sutton. 10l; Ives. 29s."
Ives raced off again. and in about five min
Gtss had put up 40 carroms. in which his
attractiveiy. This break carried him past The
third wire, with a total Of 3A7 to Suttop's 1O4.
~ was sailing along quietly in bis thirteenth
Ing trick jump shot and startled the onlookers
~ the une5pectedness of the magic carrom.
first Quality. He passed the SO button "a third
time and changed off to open work on the green
SHOTS mot; to op the ' atteSti or0 Of % tho hi bilI Rir " iov az as ana
s sbas shsir P S3sS app 0f - y soI He fn mock sn out
second time s's star red IL for 90 a cen seSpnf br reme and q q
ssr?sm when he had gath Gathered ed S. ! s'1Tfhi is set him
h hia past y the turn to the last wire with a total OF
Inevitable. and by adroit position play added to
his credit a fourth double figure group Of "a.
dashinss anish by his Opponent. AND Mii he Wnsn! {
and % 8 and nd the work was done. He won bya
1t was the fastest game Of the tourney, and q
E really magnificent exhibition Of the art,
mis- own average of 10 1926, made against
In this feat he had made good his own prophecy
t tSar eR aEEfI pafy or IA would ,gha be beaten in the
one Of his sixteen innings:
iyss,s play made one thing, plain as a pike
stan. and that was that 1t Is easy enough to
Ria%yy the hnd pG ~ , sstyle 6@,kl line when you know
a aSw Of A ths ot L sn fsli GSnt ki kPq% how ffS %h tnisI the he
do is to buckle, down to business and learn the
Srlck' too. and DAILY said that that was just
ives-e, go. 10. ol, lao. l.. 2. %, 8. o. 40. is. 9. IS.
s%pston-7,O o. IS. 80. 10. o. g. o. So. 4. o. 8. ga. o.
AAyerqgss-1yes 81 4le Sutton, o 015.
Mclaughlin.
Time Of Game-2 hours and 8 minutes.
THE EVENING GAME.
When George ,Slosson met his old.time rival.
Jacob S~chaefer, in the evening game tho crucial
stage .of the big tourney was reached, for
they were the two stars who were to compete for
ior championship honors. The loser OF the
SSH anni.N was scheduled to- face the young
matches together and there were partisans of
both in the asscmblagc OF billiard lovers that
The Little Wizard opened with a break of
q, and Slosson went him lust one better in his
sonae 'fR9'n pisst ssdpt up q. an and T laEer is sIiiP s,d latsp
made II, one shot of which, n three.cushlon
TTarrom, won prompt recognition for its merit.
Two stars. and, when Slosson got round the wire
FIRST with 9 cluster Of 81 there was rejoicing
"Siosson, l22; Schaefer, S5."
Slosson Increased this lead. and then the
Wizard y started after him. Two round-the.
fable shots, ably executed, opened his seven
teenth inning. which, Just as it had started with
hne promise, was Gu short BY a luckless miscue.
Blossom seized the opportunity to sweep further
ahead. HIS opcn-taole carroms were clean cut
and accurately. calculated, and he smiled
when. the billiard lovers applauded them.
ss they certainly ought 10 have done.
He gathered ia ~ with varied kinds OF play,
and the " Wizard" having cracked a duck egg,
slosson began anew in the upper cornor viii
some close work that pleased his udherents i'm.
mensely:. There was plenty OF ginger in his
work, but when his friends grew too destroyer.
GUS IN their rejoicing. he very properly asked
stopped promptly.
schaeier sat watching, his play in silence with
riyai's tactics embraced position shots OF a
6fliliant make. that served TO prolong his
display past the. fifty mark. 1t became
evident that. like Ives in the afternoon,
he WAS bent on. passing Schaefer's run OF 7a.
But George fell short of his ambition and
stopped AZ u. They were daisies, though. and
they shot his score well beyond the second
wire with Il total OF 252 TO Schaefer's 81.
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