The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-05
WIZARD STILL MASTER
JAKE sCHAEFER BEATS CANADA's
HEST ~
Canadian Expert Played With
Consummate Nerve and Clev-
erness, but Could Not
Make Good.

NEW YORK, Dec 4-The temperance
of Jake Schaefer, the wizard billiard
ist of Chicago, in an open tournament in
this city, was the chief feature of to-
nights play in the international billiard
contest which is being held in the Maai-
son Square Concert Garden. Schaefer's
opponent was the young Canadian expert,
Leonard Howison, and while the veteran
player beat the young aspirant, Howison
made host of friends by his nervy play
throughout the game. Howison chose
the black bah and led off with caroms,
Schaefer replying with single. The play
was poor on both sides until the fifth in
ming, when Schaefer put together 10. 1t
seemed as - he were in for good run,
but he slipped up on draw shot to the
cushion Neither played very brilliant
~ until the opening of the twentieth in
ming, when Howison gathered in a we'll
played run of 81, which placed his score
116 to Schaefers rs. Both men showed I'M
mistallable signs of nervousness.
AT the end of the twenty-fifth inning
the Canadian was al, just 81 points ahead
of the wizard, but in the last half Of
the twenty-sixth inning the Chicago ex-
pert began juggling with the balls with
all his oId-time delicacy of touch and
accuracy of judgment After wonderful
manipulation of the worries, Schaefer got
them into the open space in the middle
of the table-and then, with deft strokes
of his cue, he brought the balls to tne
upper rail, scoring SIS points in transit. On
the rail he executed three marvellous
masse shots. On draw, which he seem
ed sure of getting, Schaefer slipped up
after making 65, the highest individual
run of the tournament. The remainder
of the game was tedious and long drawn
out. Occasionally it was interspersed by
some brilliant burst Of cleverness on the
part of each player. Both Of them fell
away in their execution as the game
progressed, but the hope that either one
would make another long run held the
audience to the very last minute, and
Schaefer won out with a score of 400 to
the Canadians 357.
Tomorrow Sutton and Morningstar will
play in the afternoon, and Slosson and
Howison will cross cues in the evening
game:
Following is the score of tonight's
game:
Jacob schaefer Chicago: ], o. o. 0, IS,
0, 16. 1, 6, /, Q, 0, l, Is. o, S, II, Q, J. !,
Il, {, 3, l. !. 3. H. T. Z 0. o. H. is. s, l. I,
8, 20, 2, 4, o. 6. 1, lis. II, o, 4, 10. A, o, A.
Total, 400. High runs, IS, 10, ID. Aver
age, s 65-67.
Leonard tiOWlSOn, SdIdua. 4, v, D, =,
5, ! O. Il, .. !. l. 81 = j, s 10 = !, ! Z.
8. 9. H. 1, o, 10, ID, 0, o, l, 0, Is, 8, 8, II,
i 10 s. 2 O. q 6, ., l. 3. %. !, 8, | s..
age, 22-67.
Barutel and Morningstar played the
fourth game of the series this after
noon. Neither played brilliantly, and the
game was the slowest so far in the tourn-
ament. The Frenchman won by 400 to
Morningstar's 2S6, but it took sixty-five
innings to do so. The foreigner had all
the better of the luck of the game. He
played some excellent all-round- the-table
shots, and only on two occasions did he
attempt to nurse the balls. He scarcely
ever played for position, but was lucky
eIough to be in receipt of natural posi-
tions. On the other hand, Morningstar
had a rather imperfect ball and claimed
that the red ball was cracked, a state
rnent which was borne out by Jake
Schaefer after the game. Morningstar,
however, made the highest runs in the
game, making 80 and 81 by beautiful
nursing and position plays. Following
Is the score of the afternoon game:
Louis Barutel, Franco 10, 4, 4, 0, 10,
8, g. 1, 0, 1, 0, "a, 3, 4, 26, g. o. z 0, II, 4, Is,
9, IL, 5, 2, H. o. o, Is, o. o. Is, 0, IA, o. 5, 1,
Is, o. 5, 4, o. a. 9. 10, Q. 8, 2, 0. 8. = u,
20. Average, 6 10-65.
9, q 9, O. . 0, l. 9 e g. 9 p q 4
+ :, 8 = Is. ! . : 81, / ;? .,
IL, IL 0, o. 9, Il, 1. o, 0, 0. 0. 8, 6, 4, 1. To-
tai, 2S6. High runs 80, 81 %. Average,
1854