The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-12
SCRAEFER STRONG ATNURSTNG
WIZARD BEATS MORNINGSTAR IN
BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.
His Feathery Touc COzens III Balls for
a Run Of I35 In the Seventh Inning
-Hoppe's Steady Play In Evening
Scores a Victory Over Albert Cutler.

day afternoon In Madison Square Garden
Concert Hall In the third game OF the cham
pionship tournament at is inch balk line. two
shots In. Also the wizard emerged victorious
from the fray, administering a decisive
defeat to Ora Morntngstar, the young
expert who took the measure OF Louis Cure
on Monday night. The score was 800 to 23s.
Sohaefer making twice as many points, with
seventeen to spare. as his opponent, and
avefaeing IS 24-27.
Jake's 800 was founded largely on obese
runs. With frequent zeros and small innings
he intermin gled enough distended stays
at the table to Increase his total to a size
SUFFICIENT to make the game easy for him. His
best run attained proportions OF 1877, the
best run so far OF the tournament, which
has been prolific In producing century ses-
sions. The veteran had been doing little
in the game until he started of on his long
chain Of counts, 1t came In the seventh
inning. the SCORE being IS to 10 In favor Of
Morningstar when Schaefer went TO bat.
II was not long before he had the balls
properly poised over the lengthwise balk
line. and then with mastery craft he pro-
ceeded to run them along the chalk mark.
carrying them practically the whole dis
lance. With his famous feathery touch he
had them under ~faultless control. and those
who looked on vowed the Wizard was as
good as he ever was. There were only three
long drives In the run, and on the short drive
70 the side rail stroke, force and calculation
were so combined that driven ball, dead
cue ball and second ball came back TO the
same nesting group from which they started.
At least 80 Of the 1877 were made in the centre
oblong. Sequestered in space and with 10
anchorage save the ozone the balls were yet
as subservient to the persuasion of the cue
as II supported by invisible props. Almost
silently the cue ball ficked the object balls.
propelled by a stroke, as light as air. as gauzy
as q spiders web and with contact as, thin as
spur Of by the flexible wrist Of the wizard.
Everything snd p SnafR I'M must bs,, have Srot an ,s ead Ling,
and lined H up on sseehaseif + oa'l They e!'S were ref in sf the
centre Of the table and the shooter tried a
one cushion bank. He missed both balls, which
counted one for Morningstar.
There was a run Of Al two innings later.
after which s~chaeier was not assertive again
Unit qnsil near n,t the ot ;abtsh a.rI He !. vent through iOusd
be got SIP + point gratis it's Morninsstar ifeouuileedd
f R5s cue q m Rsl' H aea ran sSn$ s., ffoifiSSVweSdp e With H2un a
scattered break OF 8 and came back with 81.
Another nursing run was good for % points
him to within five points OF the finish. He
added the needed five the next time up,
than MoE so5aefe4 aP Pd!as ssfne q m S6ed 9dP sai q fa aps
good nurser ordinarily. bis stroke did not
had to battle. with the balls. They ran hard
for him and he could not subdue them, His
execution, when the globes were spread vas
so far as position Was concerned nc Several
of his masses were beauties. The score;
IS, sSA II, So } g. s.s s. J. q 3d. !, . : "a i 3D. d o. & &, "a !s,
1si4:25 High runs, lls7; q. g., 1919.
axe T. 5 q Is q q. s. H IL; nj runs s. y. H. So i0'Si' ." Aver
The new trophy, a handsome silver bowl.
conte st a"'V Wefe' WWfiliiI IA eI Hoppe. then the Isl Isl
champion, and Albert Cutler Of Boston The
ATTENDANCE was the best so far Of the tourna-
Hoppe, won the game, 500 TO 1852. He also
Won the o9nk made pqints and missed
dtIIdi not EsHc Consider defeat a forese He' oon nc On
threshed the balls about for 81, 4 perverss
freeze necessitated spottins the balls. and
Master william lam i locked bie !. very spruce s}H e il his HI;
m SS5aSs rest he Kept them in front Of him
and ntr never Ss .n over se spPba n baf. distand9e "a apart Art
ortieth c unit and Hoppe missed the ext,
a one cushion effort. Cutler made one OF
his brilliant a. /, masses 1ina Is in in The III thlrd inning The
with care and thoroughness in this inning
sIoa, T neReSthe eay f haze Foo 9f G S52ff ms and roi
out OF ifdculties ~cleverly. He sung a song
of sixty and missed on z return massse
cue ball travelled two, feet and snaked its
s siy6 nlfs5 to the oP fse ln nails; 6 Sat9agIns p taem
and made the score io4 to IS in Cutters favor
Hoppe made a masse equally lurld in the
be had to contend with a lineup. He was
uncertain on cushion shots and ended the
inning by returning too wide from a cushion
draw. Hopes friends groaned in the sixth
inning when, after a valiant try, he missed
a three cushion shot There was q sap in
the, corner lust vide enough for a ball to pass
an Gutter tier t ' Broke Ss" his isuf first t goose egg in the
sixth inning Hoppe. in turn. took the lead
scratch. A kiss did what calculation failed
TO do. He left a hard one, and Cutler agar
m n 57sea. s In his On e the 4afl. lnfRie efer a9? MsL stuGfS
lin squinted at the balls:
"Fgozep. was his verdict. Hoppe was mo-
satisfied and asked him TO look again
Frozen. declared the referee after a secont
Hoppe b racteristios were in evidepc'
high bridge hand, the loosely Crashed Gu,
butt, the free mar ipulation Of the balls anc
on drives and a eoodiy BIT OF territory c~oveTe:
on a majority Of the shCts-yet all the count
ing at one zen end t Of the st ta6led drina sdd }9s 9iP 3Sl
three balls perfectly. The run was as point
long and made the score; Hoppe. 2lo; Cutler
1874.
elusive Hoppe had nothing but double figlr
runs seven in succession reading as follows
il, 80, 10, %. 10. IS. 81. In fact. he had onl!
three single figure runs in the first. clever
innings. The harvest of eleven inning
was lust halt Of the game-250. and an averag
Of %. His playing had been very consistent
He was ll2 points ahead.
Hoppe was not so far ahead on even innings
Cutter heaped up 80 caroms in his half OF tn
eleventh He made a bunch of splendit
drives, but was disposed to make too mucI
work for himself with, drives and spread
when simpler fashioned caroms would hnv
answered and meant less labor. He MISE,
the sixty-frst shot-a draw with. the GU
behind the back and a. constrained postuT
suf1cient to distort. anybodys aim.
Hoppe's first cipher came to pass in tn
thirteenth inning: i was a long, plai
teenth inning when Cutter kissed back for
shortly. The cue ball was kissed our OF III
straight and narrow path on a worthy aroun
the table flyer. Single cushion shots wer
Hoppe g bane. He missed one in the hfteent
shot. Cutler took to nursing in the six
teenth inning and landed SO at close range
The last point was a hard and snowy, kis
cular but void That Is.
left nothing. The score was 3ol to 26S l
Cutters favor. and 1t was not a runaway rae
Cutler was going nicely in the seventeent
inning. when he missed an easy bank an
I left q ripe setup. Hoppe was apprecIatlv
and brewed a savory concoction OF IS, sea
soned by long ball 10 ball draws and spic
masses TO surmount a%lignments. After Cutie
had pulled UP 70 within IS points OF Hopp