The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-04-12
WILLIE HOPPE TOO
MUCH FOR CUTLER
Billiard Play Not as Fast as
Expected
FIFTH GAME IS PLAYED
schaeffer Easily Defeats Morningstar
In the Afternoon, the Indiana Man
Being Clearly outeIassed BY
the Chicago Player.
FIFTH GAME IS PLAYED

New York, April 11.-By the score of 500
to sS2 Willie Hoppe of this city. who holds
the worlds championship title for 1871 bill
lizards, defeated Albert G. Cutler of Boston
in the fifth game of the worlds 1872 cham
pionship tournament at the Madison
Square Garden tonight. Hoppe did not
play as fast or as well as was expected.
Tomorrow afternoon Slosson will play
Mornngstar, and at night sehaefer and
Cutler will meet
In tonights game Hoppe and Cutler
banked for the lead and the young worlds
champion won it, He choose the white
ball and made four caroms, but missed
on a single cushion bank shot. The Bos-
ton man got his stroke right away and
sent the globes merrily clicking around
the table. As soon as he got them I'M
der control Cutler began a series of nurs-
ing shots until he had run up 81 points.
Hoppe promptly started off with a rapid
pace. driving for position with accuracy
and nursing gently as occasion required.
Two of his mass shots. one on the rail
and another in the center space were
faultlessly executed, but he tripped up on
an easy single cushion shot after he had
made forty. Cutler failed TO count in
the second inning and Hoppe only made
a single earom in the third.
In Cutters half of the inning the Bos-
tonian gave the spectators another exhi-
bition of his ability in a grand all-around
of 60 points, which was abruptly ended in
futile try for a massacre to the bottom
of the table. Hoppe made 10 in the fourth
inning and missed a single cushion bank.
Cutler replied with seven and then Hoppe
gathered in SO through some sterling
work. when again single cushion bank
miss was his undoing.
Turns First Hundred.
Cutler ran up 16, and the score at this
staged was 100 to % in Cutters favor.
Hoppe turned his first hundred with ten
in the sixth and after Cutler failed to
respond with count Hoppe began to
creep up in timely run. He made %
points, which placed him in the lead with
margain Of points. Cutler again got
cipher, and Hoppe went still further
ahead with 16 more. A double kiss spoiled
good chance for long run by Hoppe
in the ninth inning when he had tailed
6s. Cutler only gathered in the next two
turns. while Hoppe added 81 and 8, bring
ing his score up to $50 with a run of go.
After two hours of play the score
stood:
Hoppe. soi; Cutler. 265; for sixteen in
nings.
Hoppe scored 80 and 30 in the eighteenth
and nineteenth innings, while Cutler
added q and 90 to his score; split by
cipher in the eighteenth inning.
After Hoppe had made in the TWEEN
tieth Cutler coaxed out Il, falling on
long draw This left him just So points
behind. Hoppe entered the last hundred
of the game in his twenty-first inning
with a run of IS.
Cutler got 10 in the same inning and
the score then stood: Hoppe, 1873; Cut
Ter. 1868.
Hoppe ran up fifty in ~ fast time on
the twenty-second turn, but through
seeming haste he missed a draw of less
than eight inches. He then led Cutler
by 10 points. Cutler added 10 to his
total in this inning. With 81 go for the
game Hoppe began his twenty-third in
ming, but only got %.
Cutler did not score and Hoppe finished
the game with two in the twenty-fourth
inning