The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-20
H0PPE,s coon BILLIARDS.
Youth Defeats Cure, 500 to $50. In ISL
Tournament. .

tournament.
william Hoppe played good billiards last
night in the 1879 .balk line championship
tournament. He defeated Louis Cure, 500
to $685.. averaging a fraction over a. This
makes cure a tie with Cutler for fifth money.
Master William treated the spectators
TO billiards OF the purest strain in thesfourth
inning and gave an idea Of what he can do.
at the 1872 game when he goes In TO develop
It's fnesse. lie had his stroke in better trim
than II has been since the tournament began.
Finding the balls in position on the end fail
at the lower extremity Of the table, ON ing to
a miscue by Cure, he rushed into fast billiards
With a touch that was a combination OF velvet
and impelling. arm, cue and balls were soon
working in a harmonious and frictionless
conspiracy to exact caroms from the spheres.
All the various shades Of delicate deftness
needed for nursing were shown by the youth
full master. and the speed with which he
counted, due TO instantaneous. grasp OF what
to do next, brought him rapidly up TO the
100 mark. AT the ninety-6fth shot, the balls
had trayersedI the table with the right hand
rail as the base OF supplies In maintaining
position. There was some, centre space
nursing in the latter part, Of the run and sew;
the balls out OF Gbaik ended the run at ri.
when it seemed as if Hoppe could go on In
The next time up Hoppe PLAYED billiards
equally as meritorIous and OF greater variety.
A run of 81 was more freely, Favored with
cushion sauce Ht2e There T we're a f0dIo nns 6 ON 14e
bank. On the return from the cushion the
cue ball had to do a half follow to cover the
ball, There was also a hard spread Gf9w
made with the bridge and good landing Oh the
second ball at rather, wide distances. When
Cures 40 in the seventh inning was q pleas
ing parade OF wide positioning. with the balls
tances; He made good use OF one corner
until he missed a one, cushion draw, In
Hopes seventh inning his restraint Of the
although he generally hit, the second ball
where he wanted to, the other two were less
iards picked EedtpG up here and there.
William organized the nurse in his ninth
inning, knitted, together a sequence Of Al and
surely slick at masses and made a back action
carom on the cushion that drove the first pail
p 1% The oth Cure long had F't bee snd %st SaSb no p sianS.
and the score was 3SS to 1l0 in Hopes favor.
Cure struck pay ore in the tenth inning, which
made run, With an attractive blend OF, close
and wide work. Troublesome round the
s suo R,a sa ope was MsfG the @ playe eT 'G undoins.' "'0
between bis eleventh and twelfth innings.
his total up to 4i3, and as Cure made only l
in his twelfth inning Hoppe did practically
a ar continuous q d PSTfOTmg2 nliow i0 sho otu1 bS H OF Ss
in the thirteenth inning was a masterpiece.
The white bali and the red were aligned on
H 5he lo% Had s Ts1l; it r afoS GSf ,t Rs'' t4 iSEan the e eus
ball hugging the rail to the red ball.
The white returned to the S5oqnfI and when Msrn
fffhs S cue t bali Ros veered on of on the fort;y-foprth
s ASs % of i.t sss run cus Snd als lett made ion q si SaHR; % Snshl
ion follow in his ffteenth9'nnine'A but did not
The Partisan wdsagameFand ran SO in his
rose path eiither. lie drove into bad POSITION
once or twice enc h b6,d 10 c S%at 1ne on oaa a m ,nsS
and on a set up for his rival, Hoppe, himself
struck tough leaves near the finish The
score:
II. ffoEP 'pfs, I ! ?o & "a TO- o. & <; s"i e q 4 a Z s. f a, s.
raPs.i71' 9; 81 o
9, o 81. 3 Il Te;t a $50. Average, IS lois High
runs-s6. 10, 81.
GEORGE sutton rallied and averted a defeat
in the afternoon. He started in poorly and
until the eighteenth inning IL seemed as II ne
would never GatG Sad up PIN Then M IN he b erq tSet a tba
feated him. 500 TO 3tl. In the eleventh inning
line playing that he has done since the opening
OF the tournament. Depending TO Il great eN-
tent on nursing :, ths y9InEer pl S etroIro5Iissyd
He missed a difficult shot that called for two
For some time the play was dull. then Sutton
livened up and made his ruin Of 222.. He
had hard. position to begin with, but once he
had the globes together 1t was merely a matter
Of playing them inside of the corner, squares
and along the line. At his eighty-eighth shot
he froze, and after some deliberation he asked
Referee McLaughlin TO spot the balls: His
shot from the spot resulted in a fine. gather
in his ia vorite corner and thereafter McLaugh-
lin had to do some fast counting.
Sutton continued undisturbed up TO the
200 mark, when IL occurred to him to look at
the score board. He had only I6o points
had s24. The next moment was spent, in
mental mathematics. and sutton, returned TO
work. After about fifteen shots he, broke up
his position. and started chasing the worries
all over the green cloth. He missed q shot
which he tried to solve with two cushions.
sutton did not return TO his from again for
five innings, when he made SO points and ran
out. The score: '-,
Sutton-5.o o. {, o, o. 70, 7. l., 20, 4S, 3, 0, 80, 2. O,s,
O., 222, 20. /. l. /. 80. Total-5oo. Average, n T-25'
MGorninSsiar-i2. 10. Is. 81. 0, o. 40, ?, o, SO, 50, 9,
81, 20, 2, d. Q. 4. 10, s., g. :. o.. Total sal. Average
IA 10 %. High runs, S2, 40, 80.
There will be no matinee game to-day:
Sohaefer and Hoppe play to-night and
Schapfer ard Slosson tomorrow night.
Standing of the players: