The sun., 1909-11-27
DEMARESTS SWIFT FINISH
YOUNG IBILLTARDIST DEFEATS
FRENCH PLAYER.
slesson. ObJecting 90 Two Games I'm One
Day. Withdraw but Agrees 20 Re
main whoa Schedule Is Revised
Cline Wins q Game From Cutler.


main whoa Schedule Is Revised
Cline wins Game From Cutler
Young Calvin Demarest showed his mettls
again last night In the 1872 balkline billiard
tournament in Madison Square Garden
He came from behind and went out with
a fine run OF Io2, defeating Firmin Cas-
signol. the Frenchman. Demarest and
Cline are tied for first place in the tourna-
ment.
There we're ave zeros In the first three
innings. two for Cassignol and three
In succession for Demarfst Cassig gnol
ran ~ in his second inning, threading his
way over the felt campus ct a steady,
deliberate pace. He made one slashing
masse with the balls aligned on the upper
rail. and. getting q freeze on the seventy
third shot, spotted the balls and counted.
Demarest. the fastest player OF the tour
nsment. woke up in the sixth inning, having
only two up TO that point, and ratified on
osrroms with the speed Of a Schaefer. He
made 80 points In the time it would take
Cassignol to make half that number. His
speed was his undoins. for he missed a
massA by being in too much OF a hurry to
shoot.
In his eighth inning Demarest gave a
rare exhibition OF open table skill, having
six shots OF that sort TO maka including
the long draw. before he brought the balls
together. As soon a. he did that he care
lsssly fell into lineup. but a masse Fixed
that. His twenty-ffth shot was a scin-
tillant follow and kiss. The kiss part of
it looked to be a scratch. but it was
applauded just as II It had been designed.
Nursing followed until 90 had bsen run.
when a missed bank cut the .shooE down.
By that time he led. l20 to 90.
A kiss put Demarest's cue ball ost OF busi-
ness In the ninth inning and ended abruptly
q run OF 10 made to q moderate extent by
billiards OF technical, excellence. There
was bold. vibrant masse which stirred
the onlookers to q spontaneous outbreak
Of applause. Having made DIP for lost
time. Demarest had 200 points at the end
OF his tenth inning. Cassignol had 100.
The youngsters cue was fount from which
the billiards continued to gush and his run
of 81 in the eleventh inning was his sixt.l
double figure melange in succession.
Rather careless and inaccurate in his drives
he nevertheless had the balls under control
well enough to make II principally a ball
to ball Job while amassing the 80. Cas-
signol had been In the tolls falling behind
until the thirteenth inning, when
he rallied with sequence OF 81.
The Frenchman hit up the pace again
In the fifteenth inning. In planning and
In doing his run of'i0i was as near prefeS-
tion az one generally goes. The balls
were kept within a small compass, so de-
ployed that their relative distances from
one one xs,S,n ss5SStnef were ,E nS,icesby =, nniiorm
until well past the fifty point, and the run
sistent position play. Az the spee,ators anS tors
were applsuding the hnndredth. shot the
balls rolled into a lineup. as II affected
pol had 70 scatter them TO count, and Their
he missed. The applause at least affected
me pisyers poise. broke IN on the harmony
ON tho thirteenth. shot. Of the nineteenth
WITH His hand as he wss about S0tee. te sboSt est
pgt the ball back where Il. was originally.
GS hst ht'tss tss sG% rsslee S.dS
While bsmsress wSs In the thick, q run
by Demarest's emphatic No. they we're
Demarest fell q fraction Of an inch short
n making drive and when he had the balls
amed for fat output He left choice
an knew a good thing when he % saw wv il. % He
Nth neatly contrlvsd. methodicsi wide
he swept sa around d the S'seo seo marx s globes
core, 80 to 700 in Csssixnofs favor. % The R
vas done by Demarest in the twenty-fifth
pning. Master Calvin got ths balls astride |
ne Iss. line and licked mex, them with zephyr |
,ken kiss he missed Both balls on az" mssss q, ~
)emarest made a whirlwind squirt in HIS |
'sssns ~ cassisnol % and % Seatin9 p hi@ S; tnsn oSt
he run was helped by fiayrant scratch.
which. when made. prompted Cassignol to |
)emarest raced along with swift progress,
ursing superbly. The applause was ter |
ifio when he caught Cassignoi. His short
acy % and force. he almost missed his
inety first shot by miscueingA He figured |
he point Of contact ,S on sd the second ball to
Dsing command OF the balls,
The score:
Cassgnolo. II, o. Z. o. S. o. 1, 3, . y, 2, ~. T.
~ %:Sss. "a q is q % aIsh runs. o a. O'' '
8 aysisss G ai.S Gaa: III io ss' TO- FS' %
George slosson. who has been COM
citing IN the tournament, announced last
light that he had Withdrawn from it. He
ijustioe TO schedule a man for two games
! one day. lie was to have played Cutler
his aftsrnoon, and sS s"ttSn tor t&o.aEht or ,, en-.
o-day's schedule had been chan ged 20 two
ames only, Cassignol and Cline in the after
wo games In one day.
Slosson had intended notifying the Room
eepers Association this morning Of his
Word finally came from one OF the tour
ament managers last night that Slosson
lay To-day, Monday and Tuesday. the
TO be extended to Tuesday.
Albert Cutler of Boston and Harry Cline
I Phlladelphia had q din9dong battle In
he afternoon. Cline won with 500 points
!, CNtler's 4S3. The game had an inter-
long time in coming. Scattering and
a gmenfary invoices were the rule and
lere wasn't any holding Of the balls for q
ito Obedience and reeled on % In his
NTH Inning That gaye hun a lead Of
lehteenth innings. He played wide BILL
ards and with good position at the head
the table, describing crisscroeses over 1
,tai then ives 2t1 70 Cutters 12i.
A substantisi spell by Cutler followed.