Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-08
AMATEUR BILLIARD
CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEY

NEW YORK, March Sc. W. Gardner Of
Passaic. N. j.. defeated ]. NJ. S. Rolls Of
Philadelphia last night in their tournament
game of the National Association of ANA
teur Billiard Players, held at the Lieder-
kranz Club. the final score being 300 to 215
Gardner took the lead in the second in
ming, and after that was never headed. His
high run was 70, and he averaged 10 20-28.
Rolls made high run of Al and his average
was 10 5-2S.
The run of IS by Gardner is the highest
made so far In the tournament, and when
he made it the phlegmatic audience, which
into applause and refused to be quieted until
their hands grew sore and tired from clap
ping.
Every one of the spectators, except the
ladies, held cigar in his teeth, but no one
was smoking. The spectators were much too
excited to puff on their cigars while the
game was in progress.
Gardner began the game. using the spot
ball. but he failed to tally. and Rolls scored
point in his first inning. Then GardnSo
clicked off % points. and after that the re-
suit of the game was never in doubt.
In his eighteenth inning Gardner, after
scoring A points, had the balls in an excel
lent position for a big run when he acct
dentally touched one of the object balls
with his cue. Referee Ed Mclaughlin i'm
mediately called foul, and Gardner lost
the accident by scoring his high run.
Applause for Rolls.
Several times after this Rolls made some
brilliant shots, and his opponent nearly al
ways led the applause by pounding the butt
Of his cue on the floor. On one of these oc-
casions an elderly gentleman who had I'M
Willingly fallen asleep was awakened, and
he glanced surreptitiously about the room
while he tried to pretend that he had been
awake all the time.
After his twenty-fourth inning. with the
score 2s2 to 1874 in his favor. Gardner be-
came nervous and missed every try for the
next three innings. Rolls. on the other hand
braced up considerably in his playing and
brought his score up to 24o
Then Gardner recovered himself and on
his twenty-eighth inning he ran out with H.
The ivory balls were taken care of as IL
they were children. Once, when a speck Of
dust appeared on one of them, Gardner
Inns attention to 1t. The referee produced
tiny square," invented by himself. with
which he was able to remove the balls
quickly without. losing their positions. He
placed them.
The scores by innings follow:
Gardner-O. %. 20. 2, 2. 2. ID. 8. 1, %. 5, g.
10. 6: r. Q: a. l. 70. s. O.. II. 2. o. o. O. 10
Rolls-1, 2, 8. II, 0. o. 8. 0. 10. 1. 2 As, g.
20. o, 4, "a, s. o, 0, 0, 8. 2, "a, o, T. A. Total
275. High run. Al. Average, 10 5-2s. Ref
cree, Ed. Mclaughlin.
Conklin Beat Mial.
C. F. Conklin, who was champion in 1906
defeated DR.. L. l.. Mial Of New York in
the afternoon game. The Chicago expert ran
the necessary 800 points in twenty-six in
nings which gave him an average of frac-
ton under IL. HIS New York rival was APP
parently unable to make any Roadway and
only succeeded in running 121.
The Chicagoan assumed the lead at the
outset, and at the completion of the seventh
inning had totaled 100 to his opponents 40.
With run of A in the eighteenth inning
Conklin reached 234 to DIR. Mails 100 and,
chiefly by the aid of 30 in the twenty third
inning. Conklin ran out, winner
The score:
C. F. Conklin4. IA. 2, 90. 8, 1, 80. 3, 8, 6,
). l. o, 5. 7, 80. 16. A. l. 1. o. II. 35. 6, 3. g.
Total 300. High runs, "A, 80, 80. Average,
II 1926.
DR.. L. L. Mall. 16. 0. 4. Il. 6. 4, 1, 0. 0.
80. 0. 9. 3, o. IA, 2. 3. l. 0, 1, 0, 8, 1. L, O.
Total, 121. High rum 80. Average 1926