The sun., 1908-04-30
CHIGAGOCVETYS THE EICTORS
DENAREST. TIE CHAMPION DIS
- POSES or GARDNER.

Nearly OOables Hls Score In the inter-
national ISi2 Bslk Llns Billiard Tour.
nament- COnklm Wins Easily Prom Peg
Eenburg In the Afternoon Encounter.
Calvin pemares' NJ Chlcsso. the American
champion, defeated Edward Gardner nearly
two to one last might in the ~? bslk line inter-
national amateur Tournament at the Lieder-
krAnz The rhoagoun, thonSh erTatic,
showed hetter billiards than anybody 10 the
tournament yet has shown, and he seemedt 10
adapt himself more N the balls and the speed
of the table. In tn AFTERNOON J, T Poggen-
burg met with his SECOND defea, lie strIick
his color, TO G.. T. COnklin Of Chicago by .
score Of 100 to $50
The game was lite In beginning. just a. vas
the game Of the night before. Instead Of be-
ginning At = oclock, Il was nearly $50 before
the PLAYERS 20 much a. appesred In the room
There was rather small attendance when
the two banked for the hrst shot. DemArest
won and after rolling the balls about with
his hands chose tho spot ball, The youthful
looking champion wsded right into the ivory,
making the opening shoi IN the most uncon.
oerned manner possible and then gently de-
ploying the globes down 10 the foot Of the
table. With his ebony tipped cue and his
somewhat erect stand he poked out billiards
Of variety and merit He ran a. mostly
ball 10 ball coupling His mass6s and his
dead ball drives we're noticeably good.
Gardrs iS'iprocated with run Of. Is, In
which his v ell known quality Of pertinacity y
vas In evidence. Il was run of obstacles
and called for ability TO negotiate cushions,
missed masse Cndedi Both players began
handing ont safc'y carly. but pure careless
ness or Nervousness caused Demsreet 70
alp up on an sasy follow nlong the rail In
his fourth inning, BY dint OF perseverlnR
pounding Gardner earned ten points In his
ffth inning ~ all corners Of the table Most
Of them were hard shots. So far on both
sides there had been 10 close playing and
The cue ball had been + good way Oh from
the object balls much OF the tine.
The hrst exhibit NJ nursing came In ths
slIth inning and was given by Dem arrest,
the balls TO transverse bak line and there,
with a stroke that VAS at once hrm and OF,
zephyr lightness, he held them In poise WhilJ
he Skinned across heir fronts or drove AcS
Curately "a the end rail Finally on theN
hfty-hrst shot came line up calling foI. .
nssse and missed DsmSrest ran Is In bis
eighth inning at the end Of which the score
was lA 20 ~ In his favor. -, -,-..
Demsrest made masse in the eleventh
inning which took the house by storm. Ihe
balls were on the rail with the cue ball on the
the cue ball with great force and on top. ,The
blow made the cile ball come back toward the,
shooter sqllirnl on the first ball 20 the rail AND
then wIsse qlons i9e ray TO re Ssits 9s
20 the other two. II was shot SchaferiAn IN
It's daring and design II was the, second
count Of a run Of %. the wholeiOf which be-
tOkened the artist
Gardner missed after making s and left a
dead setup., Demarest proceeded on his
way, He did some more, close playing. and
whether tapping balh lightly or making
brisk drives FOR gathering purposes he was
Conspicuously expert m keeping the object
balls close 10 zach other. run OF 80 In the
twelfth inning brought his total M 10 2?6;
&c rdneT for the same humber of innings had
IS. only twice had he made run Of over ..
In his sixteenth and seventeenth turns he
did better engineering accunulAtions OF ]!
and II ,There, zane = short spell then oi
three cushion playing, the balls being widely
separated Demarest made one i've cushion
shot II was appla uded, though any ordinary
three cushion player woudn have though
IL anything unusual Gardner was the frst
their separate ways. II wash unit! ms
nineteenth inning that Gardner turned the
hundred mark He had 100 70 DemaTests go
From his thirteenth 70 his nineteenth inning,
inclusive, Demaret lapsed and made the
meagTc aggregate Of IS In the twentieth
he opened the speed throttle again and rolled
balls for sequence Of %, penareete CO..,
lection Of rs in the twenty.second inning wss
meritorious hecause hard shots were r.
duent before the balls came together. When
they were together. however, the youth 81
not keep them. lie made a long bard masss
which wrecked position Then Demarest
slammed away rsCkle6sly az a dihicult draw
and missed. no was In his fourth hundred
m his next inning running 2S hts total Vas
3la. Ne made three long distance pippins
in the twCnty-siNth inning and by careful and
clever PLAY got the balls In position for run,
only 10 iaii snort on n masse. Tho result was
a setup and the balls together for Gardner
IA
array Of % CHrrons his prize product OF the
game up 10 that point
\ conslvualun o. 20, marked by nursing
banks aud ingenuity in getting out Of pre-
dicamenls, was he output OF Demareets
tNenty seventh inning and rushed him IN
within fourteen points OF he finish Gardner
made q pretty bank the length OF the table
and bach in his twenty-ninth inning, the QUE
bali sklmning the side rail as " returned.
he did admirable work In this inning. There
were several one cushion Jewels ~ the spark
cunts in length Then Demsrest CLICKED
N the needed fourteen. The score:
poemars;' "a al: o. 81 Q ?S i9 i, q, ,%Si
uaIdner Is, q. .. q. 10, 3, :. s, 7O.s.SS LSr,
II. Oli O. % 0. IS, o. o, -. le g. 81. Total-;,6'
ASersgc ! Is g.. lgn rnn'--1, q le,
In the afternoon contest which was be-
~ cen &, I tuuk,iu NJ Chicago and J T.
POgcenburs ~ Nev York. lhs New Yorker
los h- SCI ord "a"'c OF the Quincy, lhe
s"Oro vas ~ 10 Nv, 'Nl " was iUehlne,
long aud tediousIN paved contest here
Oar0ut any runs Of any material Aizc ard
there we're many small Aud scattering innings
noegon ourg tried ,O do soue nursing, but
be rails we're no N q mood for hat sort OF
Nlrt, ard Ouen p az prodominated. Conklin
uid sOua y,T. ruuu open able manipulation
for points and executed with hi. usual relia-
hiitv. ConkliU vBs he first 80 reach tho
hundred marx ard hc lNd al the way there
after Tho score:
Conglir-is r-isAlha66A18 -. %. @.5.TI.i.O.
iA,AgOO T.. 95.i2.0.2.Q. f. 30 -. 2. .. o,
81, :. o. N u, 10 H. Total ;Oh. hvcrago- 10 a.
Hiri rln,-59. 81. 81.
iozgerbure 9 I6.S.I,
o. IN ~ tR. ~. ;. q. .. r. t. q, ;. ?. a. a.
T. p. U,.L 70. IA. Q. B. H. Total-.N. Average.
G 10 A. lIgh runs 80. -, .,