New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-16
BILLIARDS.
scHAEFER BEATS sLOssoN.
ooon BILLIARD PLAY IN AN EXCITING GAME
AT LEMON LYCEUM. WITNESSED ny
MANY ENTHUSIASTS.

AT I.ENoX LyCBUM. WITNESSED ny
MANY ENTHUSIASTS.
Til. first Of the big professional billiard games
,,ween schaefer and Slosson was played last night
IT. rennx Ivceum and resulted in victory for
=. ONWARD" from Chicago by GOO TO AS Before the
..me the betting the result was all at even
orev but a majority OF the spectators expected
e,osson to win because his preliminary practice
had shown better averages.
The hs auditorium l!led up after the game
nssan. and fully 1000 spectators were present be-
ere ~ was fully under way. Every weli-known
buusrd-lover in town was there. and the boxes
held many Of the fairer sex. well the most
sristocratc OF the clubmen
II was the first of the two games arranged be-
tween the men. and Slossons friends felt confident
that even II he lost the first game he would pull
ont even by winning the cushion carom match
next week
The Student himself felt sure Of winning. while
schaefer's friends thought there was only one man
In the race
Frank Keeney. the Brooklyn amateur, who was
selected on Saturday to referee the game. started
,he pav promptly at SIS o'clock. and round ot
snplause greeted the two masters as they took off
,her coats and went TO the table. Schaefer won
The bank" for the lead, and opened the game
with run OF 4. Sosson got only /. and then sat
down for long time
sehaefer got down to hard work at once. and
soon had the worries rolling in and out OF bak and
his cue-ball clicking off the carroms with
6erful delcacy and precision. He got them all to-
sether in one corner and piled up over 20 be-
fore he had 10 split them again and drive the red
around the table for position. He got them to-
ssther on the balk-line minute later and kept up
his run until he had piled up GO. when he went
IN his scat on difficult sngle-cushion shot.
slosson seemed awed by the speed thai his oppo-
nent showed in his opening innings. and ne could
not seem 20 get the balls rolling properly for him.
A lone 10 was his only double figure break until
mis- twelfth inning when he added three more runs
Of TO- Is and 10 TO his total
big gap between the totals. His stroke was in per;
feet working order. and the carroms all seemed
W Sss had lead OF lis to SO. and sossons
friends began to look blue. But schaefer struck
erawled up on him until he captured the lead in
the twenty first inning. the total then being III to
But he was not to keep It long, for schaefer got
The worries clicking together In his twenty-hfth
watched his delicate nursing with awe. Rapidly
the score mounted up to big figures As 1t passed
the wonderful expert, and then as the figures kept
T Sn Rd9 Of H. Which @ess danger s
Ncthing seemed too difficult for the Wizard
delcate position shot soon brought them together
again. Finally with only one carom between him
and the worlds record, he slipped up on a kiss
carom in which the cue ball went around the
second object bar and a sigh OF regret went up
This big run seemed to take the heart out of
slosson. but he pluckily stuck to his work. and
few innings later piled up IS points by accurate
open-table play 1t use, however, Tor
schaefer came back with runs Of IS and then S
seemed only question of time then. although
faint ray Of delllsve hope buoyed the New Yorker
when he added 50 in his thrty-fOurth inning in
answer TO Schaefer's IS.
The Westerner then needed only IS points. and
Slosson still 300 points away from the re,
quired total. The end came slowly, however. and
both played rather raggedy in the last few innings
Schaefer finally running out with breaks OF 10 ana
H. four innings behind the worlds record for best
average. held by Ives
The score In detail follows:
sshsefer04. So 10 o. 90 3 p O. as o. 90 O.
2. 10. rs 5. /. 2. 0, 216. H. Total. COO Average
siossonIi. i. Is O. T. s g. o. o. 4 3 10 49, 10 . $.
q O 90 H. I. 2. 8. T. IS O. 16. 6. 2 s. a. o. 2
g. O. 2. o. g. % l. Total. AIS. Average 3l-43 High
est IS.