The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-10
MORNINGSTAR WINS WITH CUE.
BEATS CURE OF FRANCE IN OPEN
ING BILLIARD GAME.
Low Averages and Long, Hard Fight In
First Nights Play for 1872 Cham'
pionshlp-6OO to o Was the Final
Score-Uphill Work by the Victor.

pionshlp-60O to 403 was the Final
score-Uphin Work by the Victor.
The billiard tournament TO decide who
shall be champion Of the world at is? balk
line, which style OF game Is without a cham
pion at present, began last night in Madison
Square Garden Concert Hall
Louis Cure, one of the topnotchers oil
France, and Orlando MorninEstar Of the
younger school Of American players. had 1t
out in the opening game. .
Morningstar was the victor by a score OF
500 TO ie3. 1t was a game three and a nan
hours long, with low averages, slow nut
close, The winner. behind most Of the t'Hie,
improved materially toward the last ana uu
splendid uphill work. 1t was a hard game "
pay and a hard one to win.
Inc other entries are william Hoppe tn'
TO-! oak line champion; George S'ossor'
JACOB Schaefer. George Sutton ana aloetI
cutier' the last named being OF Boston a"'
'ust breaking into the masters class
billiard lovers have been on edge LOT 'n'e
tournament for weeks! The best PLAYERS "
De FOUND are in it. artists Of the cue "I su-
preme attainments in rolling the ivory oale'
and no more important tournament ever mas
been held. To the winner goes the chaW-
pionship, and the fret five share In a rlch
money prize, consisting of a $1,000 purse
$50 In entrance fees ard the net gate receipts,
A business like arrangement NOT iurhIsheo
in previous Journeys was provided III the
way Of a brass railing on the four sides oi the
able and seven feet away. II gave the play"
ers all the untrammeled elbow room they
wanted.
Early arrivals were discussing a huge run
made by Slosson in practice yesterday. Inc
student strung together an unbroken cham
OF 35t points. a remarkable run even IN p'ac-
tice.
Both Cure and Morningstar were on hand
an hour before play began and waited pa
tlently for the banking time TO come Inc
rainsoaked night had its effect on the attend
ance. Among the spectators was Calvin
Demarest, the young Chica goan who did such
good work in the recent amateur tournament,
The hall was not more than a fourth hlled
when the game began Later it was two
thirds filled. Marx Twain came in and took
a seat Just before the battle was started.
He looks like Tom Gala CHER. a spectator
observed
The bank was very close and was Won by
Mornin gstar by a fraction Of an inch Morn
ingstar made the lay-off shot, then missed
a one cushion draw off the end rail he
left a long two cushion shot for Cure. ana the
Frenchman, nonchalant and perfectly al
ease, made il. He missed his sixth shot,
failing TO get the outside edge OF the second
ball, when the globes We're in nice position.
There was no constraint or sei!-conScIohs-
ness about the big Partisan. whose LETT handed
cueing nettei 10 rapid ones in the second
inning. the run having a corner space as nus
headquarters for counting. with the pans
scattered Morningstar wrestlei with zeros
and ones and other attenuatei Yields, his
go, ~ tha first sTv innings being d. Each
man in ilat length Of time had three goose
eggs,
Morningstar broke into double figures in
the seventh. but did not 60 far He opened
with a gather shot which failed 10 gather,
but established close relations on the next
shot. ne lnlsseu u 49, hol
drive with a SLOW hall ara" OF me cue oaa
The innings came and went qulck!y Misses
wos diafointed gToring and inaccurate
It was a period when GOOD execution on
master the globes, but such execution vas
II the end OF the tenth inning the
, The oil tina, Cure encounte!ea hotheFed
ana he ana ms oIR3neinnrn nS SI sTM 20
Star made a pretty kiss follow, bur there was
stability on his or ms oPpo9eh, p2tth
The first real applause came IN me h!'efn,n
bank to the side rail, came back to the red
and slid far down me ran 70 me seI0hG oai!j
He PLAYED ne shot this way hl Tor p mSaTte la aaI
missed a masse With the balls m anchor. he
ahead when ne , say Me G9T iIfd on ne tG Lad . I 1 IN NJ
NJ lut I !tH' NlHoH ''H' 49,
49,,
The Gallo gentleman Is a last PLAYER. dhH
was both sPee7 ana excellence N ms
inning He ga n2t cars ahnthinS
pour close pay GUY the "F1.I ~ ~ pTiSg' IN
the thre adjoining spaces at the mead OF me
table With a triile more Gu, fGsH ff!, man !s.nt 9sa lb 10
pau taGtlos ne ran e.; y ~ ~ t9ra% in
run. MorninestaT oieW sbW" i b arr II IN
his. seventeenth inning, "heH ne AaI ~
? PELLETS eis q ad ! n,Sd t fos "a nqiIT y iqS to 5 54I IN r Ii! tsToT
Morpin gstar chung 70 his system ana never
failed 70 play what ne I9ns!aefei ne I!g4t
shot. .Occaslonaliy ms qe4lVsIy Mas adIIttu'
ecessltatlnR aodltlohdI WIZ rang p1e$