The sun., 1901-12-03
BARUTEL WINS FIRST GAME.
FRENCH BILLTARDTST DEFEATS
GEORGE SUTTON.

Opening Contest OF the Championship
Tournament Long Drawn Out. bat
Close and Interesting One. Then
the Other, Leads Score Is 400 20 $50.
Frances representative. Louis Baritel.
won the first victory in the championship
billiard tournament which began in Madi-
son Square Garden Concert Hall last night.
In a game that was long-drawn out but
close and toward the finish exciting. Barutel
defeated George Sutton Of Chicago by a
score Of 400 to $50. The attendance was
large, the other four entries In the tourney
Schaefer. Slosson. Howison and Morning
star all looking on Barutel wore a soft
bosomed shirt with his evening clothes,
which Is said by the knowing ones 70 be
strictly In the mode. The style Of game Is
is-inch balk line, one shot in.
Sutton won the bank, and choosing the
white ball missed the opening shot. Baru-
tel did better. his first count being three
cushion effort across the lower end OF the
table. he made one more and missed.
Both players were nervous, Sutton the
more so he failing TO get the globes out OF
balk on his second trip to the table. SUIT
ton did not count until his fourth inning.
when he played carefully TO the extent
of II billiards. failing TO connect in a half
follow. Barutel followed with a pair OF
hard ones, 10 that the score was "a all in
four innings
In the next four innings the counts came
hard. the portly Sutton taking the lead,
but a pretty run Of IS by the Frenchman
In his tenth inning sent him up TO within
one OF the Chicagoan, the transatlantic
player having an engaging style and making
some pyrotechincal caroms. two
cushion kiss shot by Barutel in his eleventh
inning evoked applause, IL being one Of a
a or laga Inn rIT
After making four gooseeggs in a row
Sutton coaxed the worries for 20 in his
twelfth inning, but II was slow coaxing.
This break put him ahead, but only for a
moment Barutel went one 10 the good
with run Of 10, failing on his fourteenth
shot. masse. TO get the balls out of balk
II was a laborious journey thr ough the
first century, safety play and a scarcity Of
prolific innings. prolonging the first 100
billiards TO eighteen innings for Barutel
latter was at es when Barutel swung into
his second century. This he did with a
cluster Of 10, his best inning TO date. He
slipped up on an easy shot by hairs
breadth. The Frenchman was playing
speedier billiards than his rival, who was
not too lucky. a violent kiss spelling one of
his shots, A pretty half -the-length-of-t
table follow along the rail by Barutel was
a starter for 20 in his nineteenth inning
Barutel was at i40 when Sutton reached
II.
BarItel amused the spectators in his
twenty fourth inning by bis vain attempts
70 get in position for a hard masse His
foot slipped from the floor while he was
partially sitting on the edge Of the table,
the ghts were raised. lowered, then raised
again but all TO no avail. as Barutel could
not twist himself into an attitude that
would enable his cue to force the balls
TO yield billiard,
From his fourteenth TO his twent " fourth
Il. A...
an average Of less than one for the spell.
A Sutton went into his second string his
playing became freer and easier.
He harvested successive nuns Of Is. IL
and i3. which were comparatively large
lust then. In his twenty-eighth inning
the balls were more responsive to his touch
than al any previous time. He controlled
them nicely andd nursed them delicately
for a run of IS. the huskiest continuous
accumulation Of the game thus far. He
deft close ball-to-ball billiards. using the
unre.tr ricted panel largely and skilfully.
taking tNe balls across the balk lines. Once
the balls lined up squarely. but he solved
the difficulty with masse. He was loudly
applauded for this rich crop OF caroms
which put him one ahead.
Baritel, who has been having a poor
streak, managed 90 reach his two hundredth
point first despite Sutton's brace. The
score read Barite. 200 Sutton. Ies. They
utes Sutton passed Barutel. taking a Lead
Of one In his thirty-second inning Then
Barutel forged ahead, again with a run Of
4. The play was close but slow. The
balls scattering widely ended a good open
table play run OF 30 by Barrel He had
10 make a swift cut from hall 10 rail. then
across the green al slight obllque. He
overshot the mark, going beyond the sec
ond object hall
Referee De ORC had 20 light match
III. -
tons thirty-sixth count of his thirty-fourth
inning Not frozen" was his verdict and Sut-
ton went on with hls good position play and
display Of accurate force until ie had made
50 for the seoond time On his forty
eighth sho, the talls separated on him
He could not Ct them IA hand again but
bui pounded out four more before hh sat
down run of a. Ia the thgt sixth |
inning sent Sutton's total up "a Sll. Baru-
tells total wAs 25s Sulton's saoond cen
tury was hls improvement over NE
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