Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-14
SUTTON MAKES THE HICHRUN
American Establishes Tournament Record,
but Loses Game TO Cure,
HOPPE WINS HIS FROM WORNNGsTAR
Great Madison square billiard TOurn-
Rment Marked by some Remark
ably Brilliant Plays and
Merry work.

/ Partisan blliardist. played his third game
! in the worlds championship, 1872 tonight
and defeated George Sutton by a score of
| 400 to 427 This was the Frenchman's first
victory here, as he had been beaten earlier
| in the week by Morningstar and Slosson.
Cure played a very steady game and at
| the end Of the tenth inning was 249 points
ahead of Sutton. The latter is noted for
his nurse plays, and he gave a fine exhibit
J ton Of nerve and skill when he made the
high run of the weeks play in his sixteenth
| inning, scoring 16S points. 1t was a hard
! fought, uphill game Sutton's part, and
| in his twenty-second inning he got within
! eleven points of the leader But Cure had
not played his half and that inning, when
he did so, he added fifty-nine to his total.
Sutton then got nineteen and the French
! expert ran out with an unfinished twenty
! two.
| Willie Hoppe, the boy champion, by win
ming from Morningstar in the afternoon
contest proved that he is still in the front
ranks and must be considered as a very
/ likely winner of the 1872 championship.
Hoppe shows Great Form.
viii Hoppe, the young American expert,
who holds the worlds championship title at
! 1871 billiards, defeated Ora Morningstar in
, the afternoon game of the international
II
500 to POI and the game was finished in the
twenty-sixth inning.
Hoppe played in mastery fashion all the
way through clearly demonstrating his
| thorough knowledge of the game. His best
run was 1O5 in the twelfth inning, during
which he resorted to every shot known
| in balk line billiards. His nursing and
strategic driving for position were fire.
quently applauded by the largest gathering
of men and women that has been present
at any of the matinee contests during the
week.
Morningstar did not play as we'll in
his previous games this week. His best
effort resulted in run of 81 in the ninth
inning. The scores:
Hoppe-O, SO, 13. l, g, 0, IS, 8, o. %, los. 9,
a. 49, S. o. 4, /, a. l. so, l, 2, 9, 10. Total, 500.
Average 10 6-26. High run, 105.
Morningstaroe 0, ], ., 6, II, L. 81 o. y
! tai, 2O7. Average, Z 1886. High run, 81.
Cure Against sutton.
When Sutton and Cure were introduced
for tonights game the Americans chance
against the Frenchman was considered to
be excellent. Sutton won the bank and
scored three caroms. Cure made a single
count on his first attempt. Neither man
got the balls rolling properly until the
fifth inning when Cure found them in good
position after a kiss had interfered with
Sutton. Cures work was very neat and
gentle until he had made about twenty
points, with the balls we'll in hand, and
then d series of diversified plays. followed
until the Frenchman was forced to sit
down, having missed a one-cushion bank
shot after a run of eighty-five. Sutton
coaxed a run of thirty-one, another kiss
spelling an excellent try for a carom along
the top rail
In the latter half of the eighth inning
Cure went further ahead at a rapid rate,
clicking carom after carom with great con-
fdence. The balls got away from him two
or three times, but he always managed TO
get them together again after three or four
drives around the table. After he had run
up fifty he got them on the line at the top
of the table and worked the line nurse for
a while, until he sent the spheres into the
center space. Here he made three beauti-
full masse shots and reached the top OF the
table again, where he held the ivory until
the three lined up on the top rail. His cue
ball was on the left hand corner, the red
in the right corner and the white object
ball right in the center. After studying the
situation for fully thirty seconds Cure
played a four-cushion carom off the white
and counted This made 100 points in the
inning and there was deafening applause.
He missed the next shot, but smiled good
naturedly as he sat down.
sutton in Hard Luck.
Sutton only tailed once i'm his tenth in
ming and Cure followed with seventy-six,
This made his total 81 against 81 for
Sutton The latter had very hard luck
in the following inning, missing his tenth
shot by a hairs breadth and leaving the
three balls punched in the center OF the
table. Cure accepted this advantage
promptly and secured forty-four.
Sutton did not score in the next inning,
but Cure added forty-six TO his string. In
getting these the French expert played
from one end @. the table To the ether
Sutton gave an excellent exhibition of close
nursing along the foot of the table in the
twelfth inning, finally missing on his fifty
third shot.
At 10 o'clock, Just two hours after the
game began, Sutton, playing in the six
teenth inning, passed Slosson's high run
Of the tournament 1853 and was still play
ing. Sutton's wonderful faculty OF nurs-
ing the worries was never shown to better
advantage and his long run did not end
until 1853 points had been scored. He kept
the spheres the greater part of the time in
the three top spaces, occasionally getting
them into the center II was a magnificent
exhibition OF skill and the spectators gave
him a noisy ovation. The score at the end
of the sixteenth inning was: Sutton, S24;
Cure, 1874. Sutton made only FIVE in his
next two innings and Cure turned the 400
| mark with twelve in the eighteenth inning