Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-15
DEAAREST NOW CHAMPION
chicago Amateur Billiardist Finishes
Tourney with Clean Score
POsGtNBURe PLAYS SENSATIONAL GAME
New Yorker Beats DE-. MiaI in After
noon, Making 300 Points, with an
Average of AZ G-T-Tie for
second Place.

NEW YORK. March 14.--Calvin Demarest
OF the Chicago Athletic association lived up
to his reputation as an amateur billiardist
when he won the national amateur champ
ionship at 142 balk line at the Lederkranz
club tonight He defeated Edward w.
Gardner Of Passaic N. J.. last years WIN
ner by a score OF 300 to 2li.
lie won with a clean score Of FIVE vic
tories and no defeats. In addition to win
ming a leg on the new championship cup
Demarest won the high single average Of
q 3-11, and the high individual run Of ll5
Gardner and Charles +. Conklin OF Chi
cRgO are tied for second honors, each hav-
ing won three games and lost two. They
will play OF the tie tomorrow afternoon.
J. r. PoRgenburg OF the local club won
fourth place when he defeated DR.. l.. L.
Mail of this city this afternoon In the
seventh inning Mal gets fifth place and
T. NJ S. Rolls OF Philadelphia, is sixth
PoRgenburg made a fine showing in this
afternoons game with a single run Of III
and an average Of AZ 81, but while the lat
ter will stand as the national amateur
record. neither of these scores will be
counted in the tournament figures as they
were made in playing off a tie.
High Average by POEEenburg.
When j. Ferdinand Poggenburg Of the
Liederkranz club and former holder Of the
national title, met DR.. L. L. Mai Of this
city in playing OF a tie for fourth place
in the seventh annual amateur billiard
tournament this afternoon. new anna
teur record at the 142 balk line game was
established.
Poggenburg won In seven innings, making
an average OF 46 81. In the meantime Mail
had scored 1872 points. showing an average
Of g. Unfortunately for Poggenburg, this
brilliant bit of work will not entitle him
to the high single average prize, as 1t was
made during the play-off Of tie. In ad-
dition to making the new record, Poggen-
burg made a high run of III, Score:
Poggenburg-l17 z "a ! 1 20 $500. Average,
q 6-7. High run, III.
Mlal-S4 10 49 l q 5S-1s2, Average 26.
High run, IS.
Demarest Bests Gardner.
Calvin Demarest of the Chicago Athletic
association and Edward w, Gardner Of
PRssaic, N. j., the present holder Of the
championship title, met in tonight's game.
Demarest won the bank, but fouled the
cue ball as he was about to play the open
ing shot Gardner replied with a single
count failing to score on a hard side
cushion ShOL. BOJn men drew DlhIlkb III the
second inning After making three in the
third DemRrest again fOuled and left the
worries in fine shape. Gardner ran twenty
eight and then Demarest scored eighty-two
in his sixth inning. Gardner gave a fine
exhibition Of billiards in a run of sixty-one
in the eighth. Demarest passed his second
hundred in the twelfth inning. He coaxed
the balls three times to the upper ball
space and worked them along the short line.
On his seventy-ffth shot, a long drive to
the bottom rail and back, the balls became
frozen and had to be spotted He made the
shot of the spot, but two shots later, he
had to give way to Gardner. Gardner ran
forty-fve in his finish of the twelfth In.
ming Demarest did not score in the two
following innings. while Gardner added
nineteen and a single to his score.
Dentarest scored poorly, the balls rolling
badly for him up to the nineteenth inning
when ne won the game and the champion
ship with an unfinished run of twenty-six
Score:
Demarest-O, 0, g. p, 0, So Il. /, 25, AZ, 1.
a. 0, 0, /, O. I, 1, l, 8 Total, 300; average
Is 1913; high run, 50.
Gardner--1, o, q, 0, 0, O. 16, 81, l. 12 O. g.
10, ], IS, 3, 5, g. Total, 211; average, II 1918;
high run, 81,