The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-22
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Maurice DAILY Develops . New style or AnoheI
shot nursing.

Maurice DaIy Develops q New style or Anohop
shot nursing.
That It Is possible to play tho famous "an-
Choir shot in tho new 1s-inch balk line was
demonstrated last week by Maurice DAILY In
ono Of his games Of practice for the coming
tourney of the stars. Tho anchor" shot LIS ex-
plicitly barred In the new game. II played under
the old conditions, with the two object balls ~
ing against the rail at the junction Of tho inter
secting balk lines. 1t Is not, however, barred
anywhere else OH tho table provided one object
ball is out Of balk. because 1t was deemed i'm
possible for q playe or to make q run Of any con.
siderable length with tho shot elsewhere on the
green cloth. DAILY. who was practicing with q
local amateur, drove the balls to q corner and
the two object balls rolled one on either side
the long.rail balk line, and stopped just estride
the line about twenty inches from the lower
rail. The cue ball. in turn, stopped three inches
from the object balls and in such q position az
to enable DAILY to play across the face of the
object balls, which were almost frozen, as In
the regulation anchor shot.
object balls with such delicacy that he moved
them so slightly that tho centre Of gravity In
each was not disturbed. and they Immediately
fell back into the same position as before. he
and forth from one siue Of the table to the other,
counting at each effort, but never turning either
object ball of its centre. The amateurs looked
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less interest. The score mounted to 20, 80, 40.
90, 80. 40. 80, and then, when the veteran ex-
pert was just about to count 30. by q slip he
failed to strike the second object ball and thus
cut the remarkable run short at 80 carroms.
Nothing like this play had before been seen
in the city, and the amateurs went up to the
table to examine the cloth, there beinE some
chance that an indentation in the cloth had
brought and kept the balls at anchor. No such
Jaw was discovered, however, and to prove
that the play was not the result OF any ,trickery
other than the magic OF a perfect stroke, DAILY
put the balls in similar position in another part
of the table selected aL random by one OF. the
witnesses of the great run, and tucked on
couple Of dozen more Of the superb carroms.
The record for anchor play away from the
rail In q public match Is IS carroms, held By
Capron, the Canadian expert, who made the
break In Chicago. Ives has made some of these
new style anchor shots in his practice, but he did
not touch Days high run at the difficult play.
The credit for scoring the best practice run ut
the new game belongs to Frank Ives, who ran
up l6l. largely by open table play, and averaged
20 in a 500-point game. He did not try the
anchor shot in this big run. Slosson averaged 81
in u 400 point game and scored q run OF l41,
nearly all being gathered by. hne open
table play. Schaefer has 4 run Of III TO his
credit, DAILY has scored 113. The high
run in the Chicago tourney OF last year at
the new game was Ill. Az idea Of the steadt-
ness that characterizes 1yes's practice games is
furnished by hs game on last Tuesday night
with Capt. Arson, the ball player. Anson was TO
make l25 to Ives's 500. and he did it. Ives
failed to score in only one inning.