The sun., 1908-05-03
RUN OF t5t BY DEMAREST
ALSO AN AVERAGE or 20 9-11 IN
BILLIARD TOURNEY.

Champion Defeats COnklIn and Leads In
the 1874 Balk Line Amateur Contest
for international HOnOrs-RerOlle Dis
poses Of Gardner In the Afternoon.
Calvin Demarest, amateur champion cueist
OF the United States and Chicago. last night
played more billiards BETTING the prowess Of
a champion. In the 1872 balk line amateur
international tournament at the Liederkranz
he defeated c. +. Conkn Of Chicago 400 to
igS, and while doing 20 made new run and
new average for the tournament. He ran
i5, and averaged 2S O-l7, lie has played
better In each succeeding game and he leads
In the tournament with three victories and
no defeats. Conklin and Lucien Rerolle
have each won two games and lost one; j. +.
pogRenburg has won one and lost three, and
Edward Gardner has won none and lost three.
Demarest made - in his first Inning last
night, which was more than he made In the
next four innings. COnklin made In his first
inning which was more than he made In his
next three innings. Denarest made three
zeros in row and Conklin two. The playing
was u few degrees worse than commonplace,
hut In the sixth inning Demarest did some
thing worth while. lie smacked them ylgor-
ousy for a few open shots, gathered them and
lured them 10 the balk line and nursed them
rapidly for run Of 81. Demarest had to
pound and drive and hammer 10 beat the balls
into submission In the seventh inning. lie
made q dozen hard shots most Of them cughl0n
raroms, before the balls became tractable,
The run showed his versatility because after
the slam bang wide range play came Tree ana
delicate position shooting
The run was good for a. and, backed Up
by the preceding q, made Demarests total
lU2 Conkln had only 35 Twice In sue
cessiou his cue ball missed on draw by
slipping through a small hole on the rail.
DemArpst proceeded In a bold, yentllresOmr
sort Of way for u while and made some Striking
and complicated shots, but there IA more
glitter than substance IN that sort pl game
and his total fattened slowly. The bals
we're spreading for both players ana ther'
was Il great deal OF around the table playing
DemaTest got the balls together In his thlr-
teenth inning early, but couldn't hold them
and had to thump ivory and cushions for a
spell. His stroke moderated to liRhtness
finally and worked the centre space nurse,
lie 6icked the balls with a hlmy touch.
threw IN an occasional deft masse aud az the
forty-hfth shot made magnificent around
the table gather. The three balls punched
IN a corner balk space Then he swung them
down the rail got Oh the lower side OF them
and brought them back 10 the upper rail,
Before the next thirty points had been made
The balls were at the other end OF the table,
splendid follow having helped convoy them
there This was followed by a tiCklish bank
Off the side rail. At the hundTedth CaTrom
position was still good. The 1921 shot was
drive up the table and back OF the red, Nhen
he smashed his own tournament record OF
l2O he was working with speed and smooth
ness The 10th shot was n masse and th'
balls fro2e TheneNt count was bank made
by shooting over the white ball. lie ran Isl
The score was Is? 10 So IN DemEest = favor
and Herculean job loOmed up In front OF
COnklin. However, there Is no such word
NJ quit In that players vocabulary and he
came back vaIiautly with run Of a. Dema-
rest did exquisite bglklne nursing IN his
fourteenth inning. he cot lucky kiss on
the ftty-sacond shot, but In the main The run
Of 50 was like taking candy from child,
Drmarest made double figure runs after that
all the way 10 the finish. The score.
Dcmarest--l2, n. q, q, g. o. ~, H. 5, O. ., i5l.
~, ., q. Is toial-ao. Average :S sl'. High
'U''o %onEiinSS s. To- 10 O. 0.GolaGi2OL9l.SlG& 49, g.
rot0l-is3. Average lle. High runs a. 30 10.
In tho afternoon game Lucicn Reroile de-
feated Edward Gardner 10y score OF tW TO
hut he made pretty good average 1929
while Gardner made the best average he has
made IN the tournament, an even 10, he
roles all round play Was clever and his close
counting the most skilful he has displayed
since the tourney began. Gardner led him
up 10 the seventh inning. Gardner made 20
In the fifth inning and had more IN sight when
tho cue ball rolled on, RerOlle assembled
rs continuous counts in the seventh inning,
the thirty-ninth cOrking mHsse and the
siNty-Hfth shot four cushion miss.
Reroles twelfth inning was not long. but
hat there was Of IL was pretty nursing and
score Of CaToms we're clicked on Failure
came through a missed bank across the table,
In the fourteenth and fifteenth innings there
were successive runs Of 80 and i2 by Rerolle.
but Gardner got In the game In the fourteenth
with a well planned and e\eCut ed run Uf 81.
Rerole did his best playing in his third hun
dred, which he went through In i've innlnR-,
and ne closed strong with break Of IJ. The
score.
Rerolle-O. ~ ?. II, 5. II, o. q, Z H. o. n. o. 20,
42aO 49, 67 o. H. Z, Las, IS. Total, 100, Average,
IS 10 ". High runs Al. %, e.
Gardner Z. s. l. O. %, !, Q, I, o, 0, g. 7, "a, s. 8,
l5.SLLe1.i II, 5, Is, 81. Total, 80. Average, 10.
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