Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-12
HOPPE AND SCHAEFER
WINNERS AT BILLIARDS

NEW YORK, April 12.-Wil1ie Hoppe wor
his first game In the championship billiard
tournament last night from Alfred G. Cutler
of Boston. He did 1t without half trying
The score of 800 to 900 gives. ne idea of how
easy it really was.
Exactly on the stroke of o'clock Hoppe
and Cutler banked for the lead and the
young worlds champion won It. He chose
the white ball and made four caroms, bu;
missed on a single-cushion bank shot. The
Boston man got his stroke right away and
sent the globes merrily clicking around the
table. As soon as he got them under con-
troll Cutler began series of nursing shots
until he had run up 81 points. At this stage
the three balls were close together, with the
cue ball frozen to the red one. Referee Ed
ward Mclaughlin spotted the balls and
Cutler failed to make the carom.
Hoppe promptly started of at a rapid
pace, driving for position with accuracy and
nursing gently as occasion required. Two
OF his masse shots. one on the rail and an
other In the center space, were faultlessly
executed, but he tripped up on an easy sin
gle cushion shot after he had made 40. Cutler
failed to count In the second inning and
Hoppe only made single carom in the
third. In Cutters half of this inning the
Boston man gave the spectators another ex-
hibition of his ability in grand all-around
run Of 60 points, which was abruptly ended
in futile try for masse close to the bot
tom rail-
Hoppe made Ii in the fourth inning and
missed a single-cushion bank Cutler re.
piled with T. and then Hoppe gathered in SC
through some sterling work, when again q
single-cushion bank miss was his undoing
Cutler ran up 49, and the score at this
stage was 120 to 81, in Cutters favor
Hoppe turned his first 100 with 10 in the
sixth, and after Cutler failed to respond
with count Hoppe began to creep up in a
timely run He made % points which
placed him in the lead with a margin of six
Cutler again got cipher. and Hoppe went
still further ahead with 10 more
a double kiss spoiled a good chance of a
long run by Hoppe in the ninth inning when
he had tailed IS. Cutler only gathered 4
in his next two turns. while Hoppe added 81
and 3, bringing his total score UP to 20
with run of 60. Cutters total was 1913 at
the close of the eleventh inning. 50 points
behind Hoppe. After two hours of play the
score stood: Hoppe, 301; Cutler. 265, for
sixteen innings.
The score:
& 8 80 30 80 50 70 q Total 500 Average,
20 2o-24. High run, IS.
90 Ca q, q Q 90 10 0 o IA 60 3 10 10
1G 1923. High run, GO.
When Jacob Schaefer met Ora Morning
star in the afternoon fast work was look
ed for, and while the game ran through
twenty-SeYen innings, Schaefer did not
disappoint the expectant lovers of the
game. He defeated Morningstar by a
score of 800 to 233, and in doing so made
1871 caroms in his seventh inning, which is
the high run of the tourney up to date
Morningstar played a good, plucky up
hill game, but he was outclassed. The
scores
sehaefer.o o SO 1877 o Al % o ~ 10
25 o IL 0 O SO 81 81 g. Total 800 Aver
age. IS 142E High runs. 1877. "a. 67
Morningstar-1O 0 2 so s115i2 81
o Is i2 80 40 o % g Total 233 Aver
age, 1926. High runs 40, 81, 30