The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-30
TOURNEY BEGINS.
sCHAEFER BEATS DAILY BY A
SCORE OF 500 TO 279.

Neither Expert Plays ia His OId-Time
FOrm-schaefer NrarvelousIy Sue
cessfuI With His Famous Draw
and Brings Down the House with
Magnificent Long Masse-DaIy
Makes a Couple of Brilliant Plays
But Is in Hard Luck Most of the
Game.
New York, Nov. 2s.-The five cornered
billiard tournament which will decide the
championship of the world, begun tonight
in the concert hall of the Madison Square
garden.
Aside from the glory the champion bill
lard player will receive a diamond medal
and 50 per cent. of $500 purse, added to
one-half of the gate receipts.
The contestants in the tournament are
Frank C. Ives the present holder of the
championship emblem; Jacob schaefer,
George slossom, Maurice DAILY and George
Sutton.
This tournament is being held under diff
ferent conditions than those of any other
contest held in the United States. The
1S-inch balk line game, with the anchor
shot practically barred, is the latest game
which the big ones are asked to solve
Daily and Schaefel were selected to open
the tournament. 1t was expected that
the meeting of these two old timers would
form drawing card. On the contrary
the concert hall was hardly half filled.
Schaefer won the bank and selected the
black Three was the best he could do
in his opening inning. DAILY, at the first
effort scored 5. Schaefer in the second
inning scored IA and as hard luck seemed
to follow Daily the wizard" ran up 10
points At the ending of the first Is min
utes Schaefer led by 81 points with a to-
tai score of 80. While there had been sew
eral pretty shots, neither of the experts
appeared to be playing anything
like the billiards they are capa-
BILE of. In the nineteenth in
ming, Schaefer made run of 70, which
made a total of 173 to his credit His
etghtieth shot was the simplest kind of a
spread, but was missed through careless
ness.
Days play grew worse as the
game progressed 1t was not
until the twenty-first inning that
he succeeded in getting count in the
double figures. Then hard work was re-
Warded by an even dozen. Two innings la
ter IS points were strung by careful play.
In the twenty-third inning Schaef-
er again emerged from the rut,
and gave another exhibition of skill,
making run of 81. His eighteenth
shot was magnificent long masse, which
brought the crowd to its feet. At the end
OF the thirty-fifth inning the Wizard was
nearly 200 to the good
Throughout the game Schaefer used his
famous draw whenever he had a chance,
and success rewarded his efforts to an un-
usual degree
Daily, on the other hand, seemed unable
10 do anything with his drew. He did not
begin to get his stroke until the game
was virtually out of reach. In the forty
second inning a three-cushion shot with a
drive for position brought down the house
In the following inning, a masse won
great applause for the New Yorker.
Pretty work in the forty-four inning
yielded a bunch of 80 for Daily, his high
est run during the game.
Schaefer went out in the fifty-third in>
ming.
The score by innings was:
Schaefer-3, a. 2, 4, Is, /, 10, 0, 0, 0, 16,
5, IS, A, 0, 8, 0, l, 70, 9, 8, l, 2, 0. ?, A. o.
l, 2, 2. II, 10, 81, 49, 0, s. II, g. 10, 3, 8, 10,
0, 4, 20, 80. 10, 40. 2, %, 0, 0, 500
Daly-5, l, o. 5, 3, ), 2, 20, 0, 2, 2, z, 8, /, /,
2, 2 0, o. 3. 70, 4, 49, 0, l, 0, O. l, l, 0, 0, l.
% l, 2, 6, 5, 2, 8. Il, 0, 90 q, SS, 0, 0, 6, o.
"a, II, 2, 11-279.
Highest Runs-Schafer, 70; Daily, 49,
verages-Schaefer, 8 1858; DAILY, 1852.
Tomorrow afternoon Slosson and Sutton
will meet, while in the evening Ives and
DAILY will cross cues.