Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-26
M0RN|NGSTAR WINS
LEAD IN TOURNEY
New Yorker Beats Cure and
Takes First Place in Billiard
Championship Race.

NEW YORK, March 26-Ora c. Morning
star, the New York expert, took first
place in the worlds championship tourna-
ment at 1872 balk line billiards in the
concert hall of Madison Square Garden
last night when by beating Louis Cure
Of Paris, he won his second match Of the
tournament series. The game was an eX-
cellent exhibition Of expert billiard play
ing, but there as real contest for only
short period of the play, Cure snow
ing nothing like the skill that he eX-
hibited in his winning game at the open
ing of the competition. In the two
matches of the day winners were opposed
in the evening, Morningstar against Cure.
with a victory for the former by 500 to
322. while in the afternoon two losers,
George Sutton and H. P. Cline. played,
Sutton winning.
Cures play was curiously erratic. He
began as unlike a champion as posslple.
Winning the first shot, he missed on the
conventional two-cushion shot at the
break, earned a second blank on an ordi-
nary draw into the corner. counted once
on an easy carrom. and then, with four
more blanks in a row, finished his sew
enth inning with one point scored. Morn
ingstars play to that point was not re-
markedly brilliant. but with a run OF 81
In his sixth inning the New Yorker
The French expert played listlessly
through ten innings, with total or
points, and then, with MOrningstar at lao
points in the lead, suddenly settled down
to the style of play that beat Demarest at
the opening of the tournament, and with
a run of 14O tied the score. In this run
Cure played a venturesome game, driving
the balls the length OF the table In long
hazards; but he kept fine control. and
only lost his shot when in play for posi-
ha mis- hank
a carom. From the tie Cure ran on into
the lead in his next inning with 46,
turned the 200 in the thirteenth inning.
Morningstar following with run OF %
and again taking the lead.
From that stage Cures game fen away,
the best Of his game for the night being
included in the five innings from the
eleventh to the fifteenth. Morningstar,
playing the same steady, even game that
he played when he won from Sutton,
drew away again. and with run OF "
In the eighteenth inning took advan-
tage Of nearly 100. In that and the three
innings that followed Morningstar made
his best showing Of the match with his
highest run, 80, coming in the twenty-first
inning and practically giving him the
match there. The balls spread near the
end of the run, and the last half dozen
shots were made in difficult and spectac-
ular around-the-table play, Morningstar
missing on his one-hundredth shot on a
four-cushion carom, his cue bali just
missing on the fourth cushion and again
OH the fifth. Cure made 81 In his TWEEN
tieth inning. but it was at the time OF
Morningstars best play. and the New
Yorker quickly regained his big lead, and
following his 80, ran out in two more
innings.
George Sutton OF Chicago defeated Har-
ry p. Cline of Philadelphia in the after
noon game by a score Of 800 to 81. SUIT
ton in his fourth inning made a beautiful
run of 10, carrying the worries by care
full nursing twice up and down the table.
Cline was outclassed after the third in
ming. The score:
Worlds championship billiard tournament, 1872
balk line 800 points to each game:
Sutton-2O 81 80 10 1 81 D 13 Is o IA 9S
0 o Is 80. Total. 5oo. Average, % 1921.
fi qilpe run: 90 So 81 So ~ 30 SO SO 3
527S1 8 SO. Total, 81. Average, IL 14-21.
High runs. 80 81 50.
SEVENTH MATCH-EVENING.
Ora Morninsstar-l 13 o 81 II 81 IL
SO % o 3 g 81 30 90 3 IL. Total, 500.
Louis Cnre-O I o 0 0 0 3 0 o 14O 46 90
Is I6 . . 0 81 Is. Total. 80. Average,
II.