New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-03-09
BILLIARD RECORDS FLY.
NEW HIGH AVERAGE.
Demarest and POggenburg Win
Games IN Brilliant Style.
STANDING OF THE PLAYERS

billiard lovers had a rare treat in the eontinu-
s,ion Of the national amateur billiard champion
sbin tournament at the Liederkranz Club yes
,erday J. Ferdinand Poggenburg. Of this city,
and Calvin Demarest, of Chicago, won their
matches in such brilliant style that records went
fixing and new high average mark OF % Sill
was established by Demarest that may stand
Cor days TO come.
Poggenburg the national champion thres
wears ago, not only beat 7. Mortimer s. Rolls
By a score Of 500 to SO in the afternoon game
but made a new national record for high aver
sge at 14:2 balk line billiards OF 81 STA. The
former record Of 1926 was made by Wilson
T. Foss in 1903, and equalled by Calvin Demar-
est the Willie Hoppe of the amateur billiard
world, in his match with Poggenburg on
Wednesday night.
Lovers of the game were stiu commenting on
this mark when Demarest. by beating DR.. /, L.
Mial N the evening game by a score OF 300 20
l77 robbed Poggenburg OF his newly. earned
record, by putting the mark at p 3-n- He
made the high run of the tournament with No.
ana played with such dash and brilliancy that
the big crowd in attendance was applauding
most of the time.
Demarest won the bank in the evening game,
ana led off with two carrolns. missing on a mis-
judged .wo-cushion attempt in the lower left
hand corner. DR.. Mial failed 10 score. and Dem
Arrest put three earroms on his string and missed
on short draw. DR. Mai found the ivories In
nice position and made a run Of IS. two
cushion shot stopped him by a narrow margin,
and then the young Chicagoan went in for a
seemingly good run. He lost control OF the
balls after having made three good carroms. and
tried long masse close 40 the left-hand cush-
ion, which came within hairs breadth Of scor-
ing. The effort was so clever that Demarest
was applauded as generously as though he had
been successful.
At the beginning of the fourth inning Dem
Arrests score was 10 against 10 for DIR. Mail
The young did not seem TO mind the hoo
doc number, however as he started out at q
rapid pace and soon had so carroms to his credit.
Nothing in the position Of the balls seemed 10
trouble him, and he cajoled, coaXed and teased
the ivoiies at will up and down the table ana
in and out Of balk until he had passed the
big run of l01. made by Poggenburg earlier
in the day. He kept 10 lis, and then missed
follow through TO the lower left-hand cor
ner when q kiss ended the brilliant run.
DR.. Mial responded with a single count. and
Demarest opened his fifth inning with blank.
The doctor accepted the nice arrangement OF
the balls which the Chicago lad had left for
him in the upper balk space, and held them
there until he had made 90 caFrOms. Then he
lost control Of them. and. after making three
along the right rail, he failed 10 get either
of the object balls out Of balk and stopped with
a run of %. With for Demarest and 10 for
Or. Mial added, the score at the end of the
sixth inning was: Demarest. 1Sl; DR.. Mial So.
Demarest ran - in the seventh inning, drop
ping out on an almost certain short masse, at
which he is master. DR. Mial replied with a
carefully compiled 90, made up of close nuFs-
ing, with occasional drives for position. He es-
sayed a short draw near the bottom rail and
left the balls in good position for his youthful
opponent Demarest ran past the 200 stage I'm
his eighth inning, but failed to get either OBJ
gect ball out Of balk on his forty-eighth stroke,
leaving the three balls close together In the left
lower corner. DR.. Mial put 10 points on his
string. and the score at the end of the eighth
inning was: Demarest, 22S; DR.: Mai. lSS.
q Ter a Va ccT aVng
within seven points of the game-when he
missed daring twO-cushion shot by the mar
rowest Of margins DR.. Mial came back with
a. and then Demarest out in his eleventh
inning with an unfinished run of Z. The score
follows:
80. o,emarest-2 rs 3. g. a. Is. So. 7: total.
Nial-o Is 2 ! IS. 10 Co 10 10 Il: total III: aver
fefsrss ~ iSaf fI Mclaughlin 1 hi 10
Poggenburg played in his best form in the
afternoon game, and showed such cleverness
with the cue and mastery over the balls that
he fairly ran away from Rolls. and won the
game in the fourteenth inning with un-
finished run OF 1O1. A good sized crowd was in
attendance, and it did not hesitate 10 express
appreciation of the brilliant billiards
Rolls won the bank and scored twice, Pog-
genburg got single off difficult position and
then both missed. Rolls. with some fine open
table play put is buttons on his string i'm the
third inning. while PogEenburg got only one
The latter obtained good control In his fourth
Inning, however, making q by clever nursing
around the lower baik space. This seemed %
disconcert the Philadelphia. who made pOOI
showing up to his eleventh inning. when he ran
up a neatly played IS and followed with IA ir
the twelfth.
Meanwhile Poggenburg was playing all the
billiards Of which he is capable, and his nursing
on the short balk line at both ends of the table
drew applause from the spectators. in his
fourth and fifth innings he gathered % and %
respectively, and two innings later il looked as
though nothing couldss him from running out
Che game His stroke was delicate and true
and be played without any hesitancy.
He gave a fine exhibition OF open table work
interspersed with short draws and masse shots
but IN the excess OF his brilliant work he forgoi
20 use chalk and a miscue ended a more thar
Promising rum when he had added SO buttons
70 his string.
Poggenburg followed with 25 in his eighth In
ming and 30 In the ninth by careful all around
billiards. and three innings later got the ball a
The lower balk space and began clicking of tht
points with rare skill and precision He nurseC
The halls the length Of the table for 80 or mort
ana then lost control and went In for some sky.
FOckety shots He soon got the balls in position
again. and quickly ran out the game. The scor'
follows:
Possenburr-l O. / q. % !. So .. 80 Ie. o l. IOi
5etal. 800 Average q Ella. High runs. i0i, So 90
Is ' assfsrs O. g III. Z III q 1ans s. f. j. 40''
EsieEee-EdWard Mclaughlin
This afternoon Dr.. Afiai win play against
y. s Rolls, and in the evening z. W. Gardne
Nall meet J. F. Poggsnburg.