The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-15
SLOSSON TAKES
HOPPE into CAMP
Veteran BiIIiardiSt RedeemS
Himself for Beating the Young
Champion Gave Him.

New York, April 14-Georgc +. Slossou
IN part redeemed himself tonight for his
oeIeat IN the ISL championship billiard
match with Hoppe which vas played re
Gently in Grand Central Palace
lie and the young champion met in the
eleventh game OF the worlds champion
Square Garden concert hall tonight and
SlosScn outplayed the youth from start
Is q finish winning by the score Of 500 to
Only in one inning, the third was there
was there SemblanCe of championship
caliDer in Hoppe sbilHards. while SIos-
son invariably gave proofs Of his expert
ness at this style Of play
The young fellow did not play anything
like the game of which he has shown him
self capable. while SIOsSOn's methodicaI
line OF play was productive of fine
suits.
This afternoon Jacob Schaefer Of Chi
cagO defeated George Sutton of New York
800 to 49,. Slosson and Schaefer are the
only players who stand with clean scores,
but the end of the tournament is yet far
Saturday night
Audience Was Large.
Tonight's game brought a host of bill
lardists to the hall. Slosson won the bank
and selected the white ball He did not
count the opening shot. but Hoppe
made five in his first inning. Then Slos-
son began a splendid bit Of billiards which
netteE 81 caroms. He was in fine PLAYING
possible shot which occurs in the baIk
line game. Hoppe in his third inning got
innings the young expert garnered 50.
In his eighth inning slosson again
showed fine Billiards 20 the extent OF 20
points. missing masse shot along the
He left the balls nicely punched in the
top hallS space and they looked good for
a run. but the boy only got 20 off them,
making. a clean miss on his twenty-first
score was: Slosson 1S3; Hoppe 1e3.
Touched Five Cushions.
innin". the cue BAH touched five cushions
before hitting The second object ball,
brought a hCa eS- cheer from the specta-
Tors. The balls were in perfectly
straight line and this was the only shot
which could get the veteran out OF a diff
TicuIt eitrratf6n IN three more shots he
gathered the balls into the right hand top
corner where he kept them until he had
made. 60. then they spread aud after
another carOm SlossoH missed q twO-cush-
ion c1rom across the table: Hoppe made
q single rdrom in this inning and In the
next 6io75on got three and Hoppe sly
The score FOR eleven innings was Z4t TO
ia I'm Siosson's favor. Slosson mechanic
ally gathered 81 caroms in his twelfth in
min but on l;i5 thirty-eighth shot the cue
ball went folly two inches wide or the
TFonr~ roofied With %. bringing his score
l0 io los fust Sc points behind his oDpon-
ent. Another run OF - pat Slosson fur
thcr ahead and tho boy drew blank in
INC balls i'm the bottom space Slosson kept
thcm well I'm hand ~ the next inning, re
sorting 10 an occasional drive Wnen nee
cesarv. He played more quickly than dur
;ng any of the earlier innings. but with
q precision which earned results.
The youthful expert did not OetrdE any
1ruC-sirceS while his elderly opponent
l5cut The worries clicking telltale caroms
TO the 800 mark
Fell Down on Long Draw.
e,los1on lzoDt Going until he fell down
on a long draw after he had put % ad-
ditiOuaI taIlics ON his string. bringing his
total nm to $50 as against 1913 for Hoppe.
The latter played some wide billiards in
the fourteenth for nine caroms.
Slosson entered on the final hundred
with p run of q i'm his fifteenth inning.
After Hopne had made nine the balls We're
found to be frozen and had 10 be spot
ted. and he failed 20 make the carom.
In the next inning SlossOn had TO resort
10 omen table play for Il carOms and
Home drew a blank in the sixteenth in
nings After SlOssOn had made four in
the next inning he left the balls in a
made only three when an unlucky kiss
nut him off. SlOssOn only made a sin
gle carOm off the leave. and Hoppe got
a climber. SIOssOn also failed to count in
his half Of the ninenteenth and Hoppe
made six. missing Il very close try for
q three-cushion shot
Hoppe HopelessIy Behind.
SIosson's next effort was productive of
three and the balls were frozen on
made the carom off the break and ran n.
which left him exactly 204 points behind
The score then was: SlOssOn, 40; Hoppe,
236. for twenty innings.
SlossOn made % in mis- next inning, and
Home made nothing Siosson followed
with one count, but left the balls widely
aDarf HOpDe used the bridge and
scored, but had TO make a long drive il