Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-15
Young Billiard Champion is Easily Beaten
by George slOsson.
JACOB ScHAEFER WINS FROM SUTTON
wizard and student Are the Only
Players LEFT with clean score,
hut End t. stiu Far
AUay.

~ tournament IT the MaulsOn square Gaf- |
den concert hall tonight and slosson out |
played the youth from start TO finish, win
ming by the score of 500 to Pas.
Only in one inning, the third. was there |
a semblance of championship calibre ia
Hoppe's billiards. while slosson invariably
gave proofs OF his experiences at this style
of play.
The young fellow did not play anywhere
to the game of which he has shown him
self capable. while SlossOn's methodiCal line
Of play was productive OF fine results
This afternoon Jacob Schaefer of Chicago
defeated George Sutton Of New York, 500
to 1903.
slosson and Schaefer are the only play
ers who stand with clean scores, but the
end of the tournament is yet far away, the
last game being scheduled for next Satur-
day night. .....
SIOsson Beats Hoppe.
Willie Hoppe the young champion, and
George +. Slosson, the veteran billiardist,
met tonight in the eleventh game Of the
tournament. These two and Jacob
schaefer were the only three competitors
who had not lost a game this week and the
fact that one of the pair must step down a
peg brought a host of billiardists, both
amateur and professional, to the concert
hall Slosson won the bank and selected
the white ball. He did not count on the
opening shot but Hoppe made five in his
first inning. Then Slosson began splendid
bit of billiards, which Melted ~ caroms.
He was in fine playing mood and his eX-
hibition included every possible shot which
occurs in the balk line game, Hoppe in his
third inning got 56 and while slosson only
added 10 in five innings, the young expert
garnered So
In his eighth inning Slosson again showed
fine billiards to the extent of 20 points,
missing a masse shot along the top rail.
He left the balls nicely punched in the top
balk space and they looked good for a
run. but the boy only got twenty off them,
making a clean miss on his twenty-frst
shot At the end Of the ninth inning the
score was Slosson. 1873; Hoppe, 163
Slosson's twenty-second shot in the next
inning, the cue ball touching five cushions
before hitting the second object ball
brought hearty cheer from the spectators.
The balls were in a perfectly straight line
and this was the only shot which could
get the veteran out of a difficult situation
In three more shots he gathered the balls
into the right hand top corner, where he
kept them until he had made sixty then
they spread and after another carom Slos-
son missed a two-cushion carom across the
table. Hoppe made a single carom in this
inning and in the next Slosson got three
and Hoppe six. The score for eleven in
nings was 2i7 to ia in slosson's favor.
Slosson mechanically gathered thirty
seven carens in his twelfth inning, but
on his thirty-eghth shot the cue ball went
| fully two 'ihches wide OF the second object
| ball on a spread draw. Hoppe replied with
! twenty-eight, bringing his score up to 1873,
] inst aightE-eiE hahfpd IA
Another run Of forty-fve put slosson
further ahead and the boy drew a blank in
/ his half Of the thirteenth inning. With
! the balls in the bottom space Slosson kept
! them we'll in hand in the next inning, re-
| sorting to an occasional drive when neces-
! sary. He played more quickly than dur
! ing any OF the earlier innings, but with a
precision which earned results. The youth
full expert did not betray any uneasiness
while his elderly opponent kept the worries
clicking tell-tale caroms which were grad
ually bringing him up to the 400 mark.
sIOssOn Continues to Gain.
Slosson kept going until he fell down on
| a long draw after he had put 50 additional
tallies on his string, bringing his total
up TO $50 as against 1875 for Hoppe. The
latter played some wide billiards in the
! fourteenth for 9 carOms.
Slosson entered on the final 100 with a
run of 80 in his fifteenth inning. After
Hoppe had made the balls were found
to be frozen and had to be spotted and
he failed to make the carom.
In the next inning Slosson had to re-
sort to open table play for II caroms and
Hoppe drew a blank in the sixteenth in
ming, After Slosson had made four in the
next inning he left the balls i'm a promising
position for Hoppe who had made only
3 when an unlucky kiss put him off. slos-
son only made a single carOm off the leave
and Hoppe got a cipher, SlOsson also failed
TO count in his half of the nineteenth and
Hoppe made G, missing a very close try
for a three-cushion shot.
Slosson's next effort was productive of
and the balls were frozen on Hopes third
shot in the twentieth. He made the carom
off the break and ran II, which left him
exactly 20 points behind The score theI
was: slosson, 40; Hoppe. 236, for twenty
innings.
slosson made q IN his next inning and
Hoppe made nothing. SlCsson followed with
one count, but left the balls widely apart
Hoppe used the bridge and scored, but haC
TO make a long drive on his second. This
brought him better position, but on his
tenth shot he missed a draw to cushion by
a wide margin.
slosson made l2 in the twenty-third and
once more Hoppe got a cipher. with q t.
go for game, SlOsson ran out In the twenty,
fourth inning. Final score:
Slosson, 900: Hoppe e45. Score:
Slosson, o. 81, II, o. /, ], 0. 20, 10, 6l 8, 81
49, 53, 49, II, 4. !. o, 3, o. l, Y, "a. Total 500
Average, 20 1924. High run, 81.
Hoppe 5, 0, S. I, %, o. 20, 20, o, l. 6, %
o, 3, 9, 0, B. o, 9, H. 0, 9, o. Total, 2i5
Average, 10 1923. High run, S.
schRefer Defeats sutton.
In the tenth game OF the worlds cham,
pionship billiard tournament played her,
this afternoon Jacob Schaefer Of Chicago
defeated George Sutton Of this city by the
score OF 800 10 397 schaefer jumped away
in the first inning with a run OF 30, and IL
the sixth inning he nursed and coaxed tho
ivories for a splendid cIuster Of 1871. lie
maintained his advantage all the way "a
the fifteenth inning. at the end of which
he led Sutton by over 100 points.
sutton, who had been playing steadily
against hard luck, made wonderful bra,
in the sixteenth inning. He got IN.
spheres well in hand after few gathering
shots and began 20 nurse them IN fault
less style Most Of the play was al IN;
bottom OF the table and at times the OBJ