The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-19
SUTTON TOO GOOD FOR HOPPE.
RETAINS 1879 billiard CHAM
PIONSHIP, 500 TO 2JS.
starts Out with a run OF lOJ and Has q Safe
Lead All the way 10 the Finish Loser
spurts Toward the End, but Too Late
TO he a Menace to His Rivals n

10 tbc y Nnr04cc 10 THIS NiNa
William Hoppe fell far short last night Of
realizing his ambition to become a double
champion at billiards. The worlds cham
pion at 1871 balk line tried TO wrest the worlds
championship at 49,. balk line from George
Sutton in Grand Central Palace and was
beaten decisively by Sutton. The score was
500 to 25s. From the start Sutton played
like a man who was confident Of winning. He
imposed a heavy burden on his young Oppo-
nent by Keeling on a run Of lO7 In the first in
ming, and he always was a safe distance ahead
TO the finish.
There was a good attendance. but it was
not more than half as big as that which saw
Hoppe defeat George Slosson at 1871 in the
same hall last winter. There were only two
occasions last night when Hoppe showed
championship class at the 1872 game. His
/ class at those times was equal TO anybody's,
but the squirt was both belated and fieeting.
IL was too late in the game to threaten Sutton's
lead seriously nor was il prolonged enough
to cut deeply into Sutton's lead, In sus-
tained superiority OF method the big man
was his rivals superior, as well as in tech
mic and all the other factors in the produce
ing Of points.
Both Hoppe and Sutton shed their Tuxedos
after being introduced. Hoppe sporting a
soft bosomed rufied shirt. The bank was
very close and was won by Hoppe. The
| youth Hllsseu anu lPII n CTObt tdDle SHOT OI
! difficult nature. Sutton made IL in easy
style and went at the balls with methodical
GOODNESS. He culled a dozen points. scatter
ingly. before he had the balls under control.
Mathematical excellence in landing on the
second ball was evident in most OF his shots.
and short table tactics were employed dill
gently. Draws were played with sureness
Of touch. and position was admirable until
the fortieth shot. This was Il lineup. solved
by a two cushion iaunt to the corner. The
first long table drive OF the run came on the
forty-hfth shot, a pretty spread draw.
With cogent caress Sutton continued tn
beguile the balls for comedy counts. He
up TO % before he had to make his second
long table drive. A masse added spice to
the collection, but in the main cueing of
amassed the counts. There was scarcely a
bIslk in the even rhythm of the run. which
thrived to the extent OF l07. The terminal ting
shot was a long and wide right angle draw
from under the cushion. The run was the
most corpulent cluster for a starter seen in
Sutton lett the balls hard for Hoppe. but
the latter, not in the least dismayed. let go
with a stalwart slam and made a three cushion
shot. After a GALAXY Of open table beauties
he sat down abruptly. missing when he had
6 one.i Ss!ls s1 t0se CT tbe . ae %af hail tTyi and t sTad IN
IL by an lnfnitesimal margin. The fourth
shot Of the group OF II was a scratch, a kiss
doing the work where execution had slipped a
ne seductive elixir OF the Sutton method
second inning Every move of the biz man
bespoke the finished performer, and the
billiards came so easily that he appreciation
to which the mastery work was entitled was
not forthcoming. The second session Melted
50. and the total was l57 to IL in Sutton's
Any cid kind OF a shot by Hoppe dr. ew APP
plause, and sighs attended his misses. He
appeared less Painstaking than Sutton and
played the balls with freedom and seeming
abandon. Sutton's extreme carefulness
caused him TO miss a simple carom in his
fourth inning. he tried to shave the second
ball so thinly that he missed it entirely. Re
course 70 safety caused a mutual slimness
OF counting IN 1T the s,, hft IN s snd sixth SaiD innings
by Hoppe in the sixth.
Clever executing was done by Hoppe in
the seventh inning but poor positioning. The
balls wandered widely apart. A splendid long
follow preceded failure to negotiate a one
cushion shot and the failure provided a setup
slump. made, only one point. %sutton's dis
dam Of the bridge x the ninth inning was
on the cushion was too much for one Of his
embonpoint. and he went 10 his chair.
half way down the side raj in the tenth ming
the cue ball barely having steam enoug h to
drop onto the white. But Sutton had caught
tied innings and made only9 The 0 brought
him beyond the 200 point. sutton. 2Os
In his FIRST twelve innings Hopes best
run was II: this in the eleventh inning The
youngster, made several daring and d fficult
shots in this run, and the points were made
in his brisk. graceful style; but continuity
was sadly missing. From a short spell OF
emer ged with a rush. He gathered the
globes on the first shot and nursed them at
the head Of the table for a vapory vision Of
was the base Of operations. and the obedient
balls returned There every time
form came to light in his thirteenth inning.
He frightened his prospects with a speedily
acquired run Of % and for the first time in
the evening extracted csroms at close range,
1t was 1872 tinesse in all its beauties while Il
lasted. Great applause greeted the fftiet h
shot, but Hoppe, stOical in a squirt OF in a
slump, underwent no change Of demeanor
The score was: Hoppe. 1888: sutton. PSI.
Sutton had a Roland for Hopes Oliver
Thinking it behooyed him to get a move or
he did 20 at once. he set the balls to tinklina
and kept up an uninterrupted melody OF o.
Most of the points were made back and forth
two or three long drives with a dead ci,
ball that we're gems OF skill. The balls frozS
at the ninety-seventh shot and were spotted
Playing from spot the cue ball was kissed
on by the red. but so gently that II nearly
counted anyway, The white ball belnl
, ball to the end rail, With everybody strsinins
|, eyes to see If thetwo would COM together.
The run enlarged Sutton,s total to 34s and
made him over 200 ahead. His fourteenth
inning yielded as, making successive break
. Of a. o. and I, profta bic billiards and a tell
|. INK pace. ne IeII the DuIls up lot tnItDe
= who clicked IN "a spiritedly and was work No
the line nurse nicely when he fell foul Of
breeze. The balls were spotted and the sho
missed. Sutton missed in turn, and Hopp,
resumed nursing. A lineup necessitated
bank which shattered the intimacy of tn,
: worries. However. a series Of good ~ shioI
shots restored close companionshi unt
: splendid nursing on the rail and across tn,
? faces Of the balls brought the nun up to ~
/ Hoppe was pla ying with more animation. an,
2 his runs Of 81. q, 20 and ~ showed how he haj
&. braced up. althou Oh Sutton still had a hi
! lead he glanced ut the score board appre
hAneively once or twice.
Generous applause followed a two cushion
masse by sutton in the seventeenth inning
sutton trundled the balls for n points in thi
. inning. The clump of caroms swung hir
into his nnal hundred. The score was ~
E IL was all sutton from that on. Hopp
: drew two ciphers In succession, and Suite
: breezed home with sequences Of % and a.
= The balls simply danced to his fddlinR. hi
. sway over them was well nigh faultless, an
. all he had TO do 20 count and get positio
G was to shoot. The score:
. sutton -iO7, 50. ?, q. o. 1. IS. 40 q. O.. ~, p7. "a,
l. 81, q IS Total. 500. average, 20 sic. Hig
! Hoppe. II, is, q, D. o. Il. l. 3, D. II. 0. a.. g. :
: rs, TO Total, :Ss. Average, Is isis HiG
Z runs, ~. az. "a.
/ Referee Edward Mclaughlin.
" sutton will play Morningstsr for the ~