The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-06
SCHAEFER WINS AGAIN
TAKES 1s-INCH BALK-LINE CHAM
PIoNsHIP FROM sL0ssON.
slow Game with Few Big Runs. the
Wizard Winning when SIosson
Needed Only Four Points.

NEW YORK. Feb with the American
championship at eighteen-inch balk-line bill
lizards almost within his grasp, George Slos-
son was defeated to-day by Jake Schaefer.
of Chicago. by a score of eco points to 500
points in the game for the championship of
America. which took place at Madison
square Garden Concert Hall. Throughout
the game the men were playing so evenly
that it was a toss-up as to who would win.
Schaefer was the favorite, but toward the
end of the game 1t seemed that Slosson
would win lie fell down finally on draw
shot TO the cushion, when he had good
lead and only four points to score to win.
On the whole. the billiards We're very slow,
but the play was interspersed with some
brilliant work which kept the spectators on
edge during the course of the game.
Nearly every billiard enthusiast of note
in this city and vicinity was at Madison
square Concert Hall TO witness the contest.
After the recent tournament. in which Slos-
son won the championship, Jake Schaefer,
of Chicago, at once challenged him under
the rules to decide who was the better play
er al the newly formed game OF eighteen
inch balk line. The intrieacies of the wide
balk-line game were never made more APP
parent than in to-nights contest Each
man was on his mettle, but the slowness of
the scoring made it evident that the eigh-
teen-inch balk-line game with it's condition
OF one shot in space, is calculated to puzzle
the most expert player.
1.-THE Wizard" opened with miss. and
Slosson followed suit. Then Schaefer put
up brace Of buttons and his opponent re-
sponded with a similar combination. Slos-
son in his third inning. by clever all-round
srrI,t tn. n nd
Schaefer in his sixth and seventh innings
responded with eleven and twenty-three,
most of which were made in the open by
very dexterous play. Schaefer in his
eleventh inning put up a beautiful bunch of
twenty-four, to which Slosson replied with
good runs OF nineteen and twenty. Schaefer
then got the balls under his control and
played faultessly for twenty-four buttons,
and followed up with a string of fourteen
and fifty-six. At the end of the fiftieth in
ming the score stood: Schaefer, 340 Slosson,
1924. The experts continued to play about
an even game. SlOssOn played second nd
die in the music made by the clicks of the
worries until the finish of the f1fty-fourth
inning, when he passed the Chicago man
with q squirt of tWenty-three buttons, the
scores then being S54 against BAL in slos-
sons favor. From this time on Slosson
kept in the lead. and by some very pretty
work on the open table he put together
beautifully punched sixteen. At the close
of the sixty-eighth inning Slosson had ACC
and Schaefer ASP.
At the conclusion of the seventy-sixth in
ming Schafer was sixty-five points behind,
but by brilliant all-around play, which in
Guided delicate nursing and wonderfully
straight billiards, the Western player soon
tied the score amid deafening cheers and
handclapping. Some of the shots were mar
velously executed. and the most difficult
problem offered him seemed easy until he
fell down follow shot to the cushion,
when he had made a break for seventy-six,
which put him eleven points ahead of his
adversary.
With thirty-eight to get in order to win,
Slosson started on a beautiful run in the
seventy-seventh inning. The New Yorker
made thirty-fOur by nervy work. but he fell
down on /. draw shot which was very diff
cult and he failed to score. Schaefer then
started Ia and ran out the game with we'll
put-up twenty-fouri played in faultless style.
Score:
schaefer-O, 2, 0, 0, 0, II. %. 0. o. II. "a. 10,
0, o. AZ, j, IA. So o. 0, s. g. 0, Z. 20. Is, II, l. @
(. g. .. - 5. IA. 1; 3 ~. / s. j, Q. a, o.
O O. 0. 8, l. IL, Il, s, 3. 2, 1, &C. 3, 0. 3, $780,
Average. Z 11-27. High runs, 76, So, 56
Slosson-O, ?, ;, 0, 26, ;, 3 l, o ], 2, l. 2,
% z o. I. T. o. 6, 2. 2. 0, &c. L 0, 2s. 6, ). 8. r.
is: z, o, 0. s. %, 3 O. q, l, 20, 8. T. 10, 0, 2 l.
A. 2 %. 90 g. g. 8, 49, N6. 2. Z. l6, 3, 0, 10, l, l.
25 g II. %. p /, 0, ], 6. 8, 0. 1856. Average,
go. High runs. 81 2S, 26