New-York tribune., 1902-02-05
TILE WITH THE CUES.
DIR. NAL DEFEATS CONKLIN IN EX.
CITING GAME-NORRIS BEATS
LAST YEARS RECORD.

The contests for the amateur billiard champion
ship OF the Amateur Athletic Union. the Knick-
erbocker Athletic Club continues to arouse lively
interest among the followers Of the cue. Two
games were played yesterday the winners being
DR.. Mial and Norris The latter played superbly.
and broke the single average record Of last year.
The game last night between c. +. Conklin,
the winner or the tournament last year. and DR..
L. L. Mlal. Although Mial won. he tired badly to-
ward the finish. Conkn started poorly. and al
though he made plucky uphill fight. he could not
quite tch Mial.
DR.. Mial was in good form at the start. and his
first effort good for q buttons. and in the
ond inning added l6 to his string. giving him
a lead OF 81 16 for Conklin. Neither did much
in tho next innings. In the tenth the doc
tor had the balls I'm capital shape for good
rum His eighteenth shot. however froze causing
the ivories to be placed in the starting positions
He slipped up his twenty-frst shot on a diff
cult long draw from the end cushion. The inning
closed with Mial in the lead by 76 to ~
Conkn. the winner of the tournament last year
was clearly himself and his billiard luck
not of the best Still, he did not allow his stern
features to relax, and it looked to the spectators
as If he counted the result OF consequence
to himself. If he could wear such expression
in big gambling deal transaction he would be
feared by his fellow opponents or player. Mal be-
gan to again gather them in clusters in the thir-
teenth inning and further Increased his lead a run
of fourteen in the thirteenth inning brought him
within two of his first century. Mial crossed the
line with neat run OF 43 in the next inning, and
followed this with another cleverly executed rally
for SS In the fifteenth inning This made Mial over
a hundred points ahead of his Chicago opponent
Mails average up to this point was ALMOST T.
Conklin compelled to make two kiss follows
in succession in the nineteenth inning, species OF
bad luck which caused the experts present to
audibly sympathiSe with him. Mial passed 200
In the nineteenth inning, leaving Conklin with only
ia to his credit
Afal continued to hold his advantage. and, with
the closing of the twentyfourth inning, the doctor
had clear lead OF ia points. his total being 265
149 for the stolid man from the West. The balls
had rolled badly for Conkln up to the twenty-ffth
inning when he managed to gather SS buttons
clever round the table play. Conklln continued to
improve, and with clusters of "a and q, cut the
doctors advantage down to 40 points in the Thrift
eth inning Each adopted safety tactics. yet Conk-
lin continued to cut down the lead OF his firing op-
ponent. In the forty second inning Mails lead had
been reduced to % points and the spectators were
worked up a high point OF excitement. After
the fortieth inning Mial recovered his stroke and
he ran out the game in the forty-sixth inning with
a run Of D. The score:
II. =, n 4; o. S, ss IL e. Pa q. T. 81 3. o.
O. 5. /, "a O. o. 13 O. Total $685. average. 1916;
high runs 3s 27. 81.
10 o. g. 49, o. i. 13 26 H. IS 0. l. 3. T. l. l. o. 0,
o. o. l. 10, Z. 4, 49, 10, %. Total. 400; average,
80 46; high runs. AZ. 3S. 2S.