The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-24
SECOND MONEY FOR SUTTON.
lie Heats Schle'er In Play on OF Billiard
Tourney Tie.

lOuTuty hW'
George Sutton defeated Jake Schaefer
in Madison Square Garden Concert Hall In
the playoh Of the tie for second money in
the championship tournament at 1872 balk
line billiards. The score was 500 to 2sI
sutton played a strong game. while things
went wrong for the Wizard from the start.
Sutton won the bank, counted and went
after the line nurse from the jump. He did
not get II. but he made the cue ball thread in
and out between the other two in the upper
tracts of the table, and he dug away until
he had eNhumed % points for a starter. Scbae-
fer in his first inning made a very difficult
shot OF serpentine design.
one object ball was isolated and the cue
ball was frozen to the other one. which In
turn was frozen 10 the end rail. Playing
over the frozen ball. Schaefer sent the cue
ball to Its distant mate. thence the cue ball
went down the table, took two cushions and
returned to the ball, with which 1t was olinched
when the shot was started. No better shot
was seen in the whole tourney. Sutton
missed three draws In his first four innings.
all falling short.
A good three cushion shot gave Sutton his
Tooth point. He did not get the position he
wanted. but on the next try. a long trouble
some one cushion drop shot, he corralled the
had l2 and Schaefer 81 at the end Of the sixth
inning. He knocked the balls about ex-
ing, thhiiss owing. to position deficiencies. He
had them together, when he missed an easy
masse.
at one fell swoop. His eighth inning. was
prolific. 1t bore, fruit to the extent Of i2i,
ed and side rails, with 9 marked preference
for short table drives. 1t contained patches
Of OIL pretty g i Pq n to 81 ball nlIs n rse baTk j }1ss. ou { Sst tsds
and grew fat on clever use Of the lower end
rail. It's third SECTION OF so being collected In
t taSIe Gdi Tive. by t way DIV Of Variety feSS Which gath.
cred the balls, though faulty. Shot No; 1913
was another UP table jaunt for the first ball,
largely from the mid table nurse, and the
cue ball skirted across the other W with
the cue ball coming to a stop between red
and white, Being In conjunction with the
other ivory planets. a draw was necessary
ball and the rail. and the cue ball found It:
AS Schaefer made but IA points In bis hall
Of IF s shs els ! tsv inning gg;a the s Tsn in Tss sw soI fr to lss
In succession in his, tenth inning He made
one by a masse and spotted the balls on the
though qaprIcious for Jake. the spheres
m metf HePiI't stToE tor was se very erective e's as to
results ,oscIllatlon Of the cue ball when
nursing in the clear. interspersed With Play
He beguiled "a double clicks from the balls
IN the 'iarder. sohasfer's, total for twelve
innings vas 100. Schaefer, missed most
freNueq2tly on cushion shots, but toward The the
had the legs but not the direction.
schaefer played, something like himsaE
IN MADE iee two s5St dsndy d chT%s f"% 'd first bah 70
rail 10 second ball, Interested q buzzing
masst here and there and reeled of billiards
speedily and with. a style, that was fun OF
expression. He left a dead setup when he
missed. and Sutton ran out. The score
Sutton-2s, o. is. IS. 40, IS, o., 19l, l., 20. SO. 81,
iI,e. i, 81, q. Total, SOC. Average, 2717. High
81" SschaStesr~, To- 2. H. "A. !, %, 81, u, {. 1,.s, p, :,
o, Z. io7. Total, 2s7. Average, II 1910. High
runs, l07, 81, 70.
Asked Yesterday when he was going, TO
play George Sutton for the 1872 balk line
championship, Champion Slosson replied that
he did not know. that he had not got around
to that question yet. The game, when it
doe take place, viii be played in New York,
Slosson. as champion, has the naming of
the place. and will choose New York. as he
lives here. The Student is below weight
as a result of his preparation for and work
in the Hoppe-Slosson 1871 match and the 1872
tournament. His normal weight is 1888. and
his present weight lie.