New-York tribune., 1906-04-13
SL0SS0N'S HIGH RUN.
SCHAEFER'S BIG AVERAGE.
" "WiSard' and Student" DiUide
Honors iR Billiard Tournament.
STANDING OF THE PLAYERS.


Two highly sensational games We're played yes
ferday in the worlds championship tournament at
lS-inch halkine billiards. two shots in. in
progress in the concert hall at Madison Square
Garden. IN the evening Jacob Schaefer beat AlbeI
c. Cutler by a score Of $40 TO 1885, the winner aver
aging 81 4-i6. the high record for the tournament
The loser averaged "a sl5 In the afternoon George
r Slosson defeated Ora O. Morningstar by a score
Of 5eo to SSs. making new high for the
ment Of l53. and pulling a victory after Morn
ingstar had a lead of 800 to 213.
Slosson gave weird exhibition Of billiards for
twenty-eight innings in the afternoon game. In
this time he made only 3 points and averaged only
7f-8 He played like tyro. missing easy shots
and showing total inability TO nurse the worries
for anything like substantial run. He became
nervous and disheartened, and il was 10 to ] that
he would be badly beaten.
Then came n change a rejuvenation sudden
and unexpected fl marvellous behold. In
four innings student Slosson compiled 2SS points
making successive of l53 loS and %, running
out the to the bewiderment of the spectators
and the great chagrin OF Morningstar. For these
four innings Slosson had the remarkable average
OF II Frona the moment he started playing in
the twenty ninth inning until he finished the game
est baIk:ins o: his long career He did not nurse
as closely Schaefer. but he never made one false
schaefer again proved his title to the Wizard
night Despite the fact that he missed scoring IN
three OF the fourteen innings he made the highest
II waA nct du. to any poor playing of Cutters
low in the first three innings, he steadily improved,
had been made previous 10 last night He made no
remarkably high runs. but kept up his average by
The usual assembly Of billiard enthusiasts wit
ers. Hoppe win meet Morningstar this AFTERNOON, nnoon
and in the evening, Sutton and Cure will be op-
posed 10 each other.
sCHAEFER BEATS CUTLER
the spot bail. His first trial netted him nothing
Cutler took advantage Of the opening which he
left and scored 10 In the second inning Schaefer
showed his ability nursing the spheres. and be-
The next nHs he be ney y oabsd 70 this S rGn Snedf Using m
the same tactics and accomplishing several diff
cult masse shots. he rolled up 99 points. He missed
sRe for three innings rs was 5S itIa1 is ID tb
same inning corralled only and had total of "a
points.
In the fourth inning Wizard" Schaefer brought
his total up TO l66 points. In the same inning Cut
ter. maklng several three-cushion shots and one
to1I, mace run OF oo IN ne sixth inning Schae-
IeG passed ne zoo mark; with a run Of l6 After
the same inning
schaefer added 81 more points in the seventh
ing The ars Ta nsIIZ ~ Isee6 @ na5aIy b IT,
IN his half Of the inning Cutler did some nursing
on his own account, and made a of 81, the
highest run that he had made. He kept the balls
at one end Of the table most of the time and sew
eEai times proved his skin at handling the nasse
mace his average 20 81. He was Just 80 points
Schaefer began the ninth inning by a run Of %
He missed one-cushion. .carrom. in which the balls
third shot in Cutters half of the inning the two
ga5 @fe T4 e I Tere IrGzs9 % and he had TO break
forty-eiSh'h shot, when the balls rolled close to-
Cutler made one Of the finest masse shots of the
game and ID ran up TO 81 before he missed: This
Ing ln the eleventh inning and Schaefer also
The twelfth inning put schaefer above the 800
MAJ marx 64is run o. y madS his total S8s and save
Of W In the thjrfeenb inning 9i;tI Nv an ,fII aETIage
series of open table plays corralled AZ be-
fore he missed and this brought his total up 326
In the fourteenth inning Schaefer made the high
run OF ne evening and the third high run of the
no ia on bei1Te II ne to9H ms seat ne had rolled
lire billiards He began by massing the balls near
several shots Then followed several open table
pars before the balls came close together at the
carromed from the red bali and MADE the shot Be
finally missed on a short two-cgshion plav. This
brought his total 10 49l. In the next inning he
clicked the balls only once. but easily l
tsent tae Ateenh inning IN his fourteenth and ff
which made his total at the end 366
e. To3t 500 + He q re- rSn. o. 15. 3 anG @ z e
AseTt as 6 &glg TatleF15 a. 90 a. 81 I O.
Referee Edward Mclaughlin
sLOssON BEATS AioRNINGsTAR
sosson won the bank and chose the white ball.
OF with cluster Of g. Slosson missed again and
Morningstar the point of shooting with the
white ball. when several Of the spectators shouted
wrong bail The referee rebuked the crowd, and
Iorningstar shifted and missed In the first four
teen innings Slossoa made only 80 points, or an
average Of g. Not once did he make a double fig
ure Morningstar in the time had made
Pa points and had average Of 10 Ala He led
Morningstar's first double figure run was Il in
the fourth inning. This he followed with 36 in
he nd m "a he 1ar
run carried him into the second hundred with a
% %soSaI o. OS n9 an average oi a 70 81 In the tenth
- and y in the thirteenth and fourteenth innings
Alorningstar was playing first-class bak line and
nursing the ivOries in mastHrful fashion. His
game was the best he has shown in tourna-
ment play and was in striking contrast to Slos-
IN the htteenth inning Slosson managed to coax
him a total Of IS and seemed to put some heart
ieenth Inning and 50 in the eighteenth Runs Of
% ana % IN the twentieth and twenty-frst in
with break Of 20 This Is gave him total Of 9T
and average Of only 1926 Morningstar
meanwhile had played steadily. and. with runs Of
lS, 36r 80 and ., had total Of 336 the end OF
the twenty-nrst inning. He fell off a trife in the
next seven innings. and at :he end Of the twenty
for Morningstar TO 2l3 for sIosson, The former at
this stage had an average Of u PAP and the lat
slosson was nervous and disgusted when he be-
Inclined run a little more kindly for him how
ever, and, as he coaXed the points he took heart
Playing slowly but surely as only ''students slos-
son can - he clicked off point after point until he
"Wednesday and set record at 1853. The run
onaed less nursing ho%evsT and % o4s nlsh open m
table play than did schaefers high run on the
table, and it looked like an Impossible shot sIos-
son soh 20 noldly ~eni twice around the table. however
Al the l4lst shot Morningstar shrugged his shout
slosson tied Mornngsars total Of 3s6 lie naily
Seo ,sb ra 4ee f masse al The upper end Of the