The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-15
HOPPE BEATEN BY SLOSSON.
STUDENT EASILY EXCELS YOUNG
STER AT 1872 BILLIARDS.
Makes More ina Twice as Many Points
-Schaefer Wins From Sutton in q Well
Played Matinee Game and Is Tied With
SlossOn for First Place in Tournament.

DhOoooh "
With an average Of Is, excelled In the pres
emit tourney only by himself. Jacob Sohaeter
won yesterday afternoon In the 1872 balk
line tournament for the worlds championship
He defeated George Sutton by a score OF 800
To 3e7, and 1t was a well played engagement.
ID was Schaeter's third victory.
The game drew a crowd which filled Madi-
son Square Garden Concert Hall. There
were some folks who got the circus mixed
With caroms. Unaware that the circus in
the Garden proper was closed for the day.
they presented tickets for 1t at the entrance
to the concert hall. where they were IN
formed of their mistake. One man actually
bought seats for the billiards, thinking he
was going into the circus. There was a sign
over the billiard entrance which told plainly
enough what was going on. but all who ran
did not read.
However, there were enough billiard lovers
to Ali the hall. Both players being genuine
balkliners and skilled at nursing. when Is
the most attractive sort OF billiards. promised
a feast for the caromic epicures. Schaeier
won the bank and the balls chimed on 80
peals before he sat down. There was nothing
real speedy in the game, however. until
Schaeier's sixth inning, when he mustered
TO gether 1871 billiards,
The field on which he manpuvred was the
lower half OF the table for eighty-hve shots
He kept the ball under nina with In
frequent driving, and when he did PROD the
first ball to the other end it came pack 10
we'll nigh ~faultless position. Around the
min, ties the balls we're worked UP to the other
end of the table, then out into the middle,
where a couple of hard masses preceded the
Tooth count. Jake was playing for the line
at the l2oth shot, but his short drives were
played a trihe TOO easy and he did not get the
nurse. Still he went on counting up 10 ISL
He barely missed In trying to drop on TO the
red via one cushion.
Sutton used "oil" In his next two innings
and Schaefer bumped into a couple OF blanks.
This. with an enrolment OF SO points IN the
eighth inning by Sutton, made the game
more nearly even. The score was 1877 to lOl
in Schaefer's favor. Jake got the balls to-
gether and just ahead of him in the tenth IN
ing, the cue ball frozen 10 the end rail. He
caressingly pushed them down the long balk
line for an even 30 points before they broke
the spell which his ultra hne skill cast over
them. They went their separate ways and a
deep, wide. two cushion shot ushered the
Wizard TO his chair. The run put Schaefer
20 past the 200 mark. Schaefer messed a
masse in his eleventh inning and left the balls
in position. All Sutton could do was to corral
a dozen, his stroke being a shade too weak
on a return from the cushion. He, too. pre-
senteu an invitation to his opponent 70 fatten
his al. leaving the balls ripe for picking
T re were misses on both sides In the third
ness or care l~essness. schaeler was wild
on a couple OF masses, and sutton went at
several cushion shots tilnidly and awkWardly,
but for the third time in the third hundred
was wild on a masse. He convoked seven
comedy counts in the sixteenth inning. com.
especially was a bizarre mixture. of angles
and english. starting with a gyrating iollow,
the twist itn 16a II e. a se agi06S 6 ddfh rom inc
sutton did exquisite nursing in the six
teenth inning. AS in nearly every other big
lover end Of the table. The coalition Of ivory
was a thing of thoroughness the balls very
close together and in such relative positions
Billiard alter billiard was picked up, and
there was great applause when the iosd count
tied SShaefer,s score noint 70 w and o S 31ts1 81 s @9
to Schaefer's 2s7. This was the first time he
had been in the lead.
speed OF his play and combination OF finish
and ,boldness we're in eyidcnce IN a run OF
occasion required he would cut loose with a
shot that carried the balls to remote localities
al Of a s yadafss. P1d T Rs ask Gis SO al aR9 iIneGps..
coaxed the globes to the line nurse in the
the counting OF the referee was as the tick
ing Of the second hand of a watch, as regular
and msl,t as fast INIT 4 i9 IN t6 dsa TuG on v shH b' VAS va foi =
lowed by ono of these smashes that trans
ierred the battle from one extremity Of the
rsii and a corking one cushion count from the
next thing to a freeze were WorthT SHOTS
before Schsefer missed, He called u IN al,
This, Just after his inning OF 70. made MIN
''S When N S1' sohae fer left of in the nineteenth
cushion tasInS 9 follow. The dIiniouity Of tho shot
was increased by the fact that the, second
bail was tight against the end raj THIS
hard masse on the rail was followed by q
fne kiss follow. and, then came an AROUND
the table play Nth h, the r sec oniY 6 6sil wsdf B e
gave position. That was the nature Of the
Whole run OF 7t-obstaoles surmounted and
short Of 900 when he took his chair. He
had earned all the applause 1h given I've a to PIN Imniro
made Tasd aos points in his last three innings,
Just to show what he could do under pressure.
The score:
sshsetss g = 3 !, 8 f E !; ,g 30 . . A Z. 81; : j. E Il a, E
IG ss!, On: AZ g s., g. s.; {; ;, g. y, ~ q ., i ne; e o ;n nn:,
lis. Il, 50.
slosson and William Hoppe and drew a crowd
that packed the hall. As a contest i was a
d~isappotntm ent, that IL, on hoppe part
Siosson beat the 1871 champion by more than
2So points. He played all around the young
ster, whose touch was not ettuned to ISL ei,
tie balls broke badly. Slosson played q
cool we'll planned game. He and Schaefer
are tied for the first place, each with three
victories and no defeats. Hoppe has, won two
and lost one. Sutton won one and lost two.
Cure won con and lost two. MoFninEstar won
one and lost three and Cutler won none and
lost three.
Home jostled the orbs for FIVE. missing a
LONE crawl UP the aide rail from n bank:
Slossor made q corkinR draw In his second
Inning. He had to shoot from over the white
ball and from that position put on great force
to get back TO the white. simultaneously, he
drove the red to the other end and back, He
had the balls in chancery until the forty-eighth
shot, when he had 70 clont them srnattiy 70
by a distance OF six feet. but a swinging one
cushion shot, admirably executed, restored
close companionship. The run was 81 points
long and was a beautiful burst OF all around
billiards. Three gems were made in success
sion, One was a three cushion shot directly
across the table after slicing on the first ball,
the second q two cushion count after q follow
TO the rail, and the third a. long trip to the
second ball after "a short obliQue slide from
the first ball 10 the side rail.
Breaking up his good work In the third In
ming by missing an easy draw shot, Slosson
had a total Of i0l. He left the balls up for
Hoppe and the youth started out on his first
double. figure voyage; Instead Of playing
the boy settled down 10 tiptop .positioning
:, .bor+ ronUa counting rapidIy without