New-York tribune., 1909-01-27
SUTTON LOSES TITLE
SLOSSON WINS BIG CUE
Battle IT 19.I.
"Student" Shoes Flashes Of BriLl-
iancy, bat Match Is Long Drd1rn
Ont and P0Orlg Played.


George 2 Slosson won the trophy. enblematic
or the worlds billiard championship a. iS-
sarh belkline one shot in. after long drawn out
match in the Concert Hall at Madison Square
Garden hast night. He defeated the holder. George
= Sutton. hy- a score r 500 II S@S- The winner
averaged 6 52-5s while Sutton made tne poor aver
zae SIS
Slosson tie original 1s1 tournament several
rears ago. but has neld the title since. Sut
ton secured HE trophy three times by default hut
ras never been able IN defend II successfully.
SlcSson Legan well with q o: forty-seven and
then -fr-ob nd streak and the game dragged ID
~ the twenty-eiglIth inning. The Student" then
hecac ~ -Ias his best form and soon opened Up
zig tn71. ~l7ich Surrrl could hardly hope TO
overcome. IN close nursing and open table play
re seemed equally al home and his draw shots
we're in excellent working o-der.
Sutton the contrary. his worst.
Fie made good run CT forty-eight In his fifth
inning and another Of fifty later. but he lacked
his usual control and the balls broke badly and
sossoE played safely that he could never settle
dawn. From the twentieth to the scrty-third in
ming he made just tfirty-fve points, an average Of
sess thar two. He played without confidence and
lste in the match without hope
a big crowd was in attendance. and the majority
were billiard lovers who appreciated the work Of
the two men and applauded generously when the
shots demanded it. Edward Mclaughlin
the referee
Sutton Won the-rank and chose the white bail.
bat missed the opening shot. and sat down 10
Billiards would ask see He quickly
got the. balls under control and while they broke
away occasionally it did not take him long TO
rake them respond TO hts delicate touch After
rolling up - points at the head OF the table the
balls lined up. and he forced 10 resort to
long bank. The length Of the table His
intricate force follow with a kiss. which
brought round Of applause. and his twenty-third
skyrocketV round the table shot that also
brought the house. The balls broke kindly
for the next few shots, bat were widely separated
Tor the Student s. thirty-second shot, and
pretty open table play followed of long and
cushion lie brought the balls
EeJher again his thirty-sixth shot. and held
taem for 10 points but failed TO bring them back
a wide split, missed next. a difficult
single cushion caron.
Sutton had hard face. and scored his
81 ond zero. bat Slosson also missed, which gave
tAe former a chance break the ice with a
OF {. which TO end with d miss He
adeed more in his next inning. after Siosson had
scored 6, and then back with a pretty
y s points which brought i'm up within striking
distance He scored rapidly by delicate nursing.
for which he is famous. and TIE balls answered to
ms touch up TO the forty-eighth shot, when the
referee declared them frozen. In trying masse
TIE hlTIt Of his hiI the drop light and forced
miss bringing pretty end.
The next few innings were not productive many
paints for either player In the sixth Sutton
egened with a scratch that caused laugh and
l8-ade SIOsson sit down disgust The balls were
nicely punched al the head of the table but ne
missed his fourth shot an easy two-cushion
draw. =
sosson passed the century mark first in his
ninth inning but Sutton took the lead il the tenth
with pretty cluster Of "a points. The Student
made l. but back at the table. and
opened his eleventh inning with brilliant two
cushion shot around the table. He brought the
balls together MS third. failed hold them
and sat down with a of {.
got single point IN twelfth inning
and missed easy follow in the next for goose
egg. Sosson cu uld get only in each inning and
Sutton Their drew further away with run of IL
in which he made number of clever shots. II
was poor Billiards the whole however, and any
chance % approaching the record average went
g1iEnmerin-. Sutton opened the seventeenth inning
with z sky rocket shot at five cushions. but he
could not get the halls together. and had 70 be
satisfied with points. Slosson made points in
four innings. sith two goose eggs and the game
dragged until Sutton got the balls rolling to his
Giling 81 the nineteenth inning and clicked of a
points
Fae halls were frozen on his second shot. but he
eo-nted after the referee had spotted them and
then ran along smoothly TO his tWenty-ffth shot.
vrhen ne missed short force follow at the head
~ she tabIa. Anpthe. Dad streak followed and the
-rosd laughed Sutton scored Q. !. :, and
slosson o s. 5. o In the Twenty-thiTd inning SUIT
tas made a pretty gather snot around the table,
tt zgas Kissed of. He got four in the next. miss
nE a hard bank. and two in the tTenty-1fth, only
to miss OF an easy draw shot in the centre Of the
tsn5e slossoa could do no better as be
sudFsd from the fact that he made only forty-eight
points fer the seventeen innings from the ninth
20 The tNen:y-sixth. lie got twenty in the twenty
sixth and crawied Up s LITTLE He followed with
: Is and :. while Sutton was making ?. ana 0,
and led al twenty-Tlinth inning. the score being
siossos s1ss. Sutton lsl.
sutton could not settle down. but sosson did
setter and drew further away with cluster Of
lnzrfy-Ve points the thrtyfirst innings, mostly
hy close nursing IN the centre and thirteen
n the next From. the twentieth 20 the thirty
Hfth innings Sutton made just nineteen points. in
ciuding SIX zeros. average that would have
been a discredit TO amateur.
slosson livened things up with a Of fifty in
his thirty-fouTth inning. He kept the balls under
zvondeufsls coatrol and no shot appeared too hard
a aaring rnasse and he ran along smoothly 10 the
esty-frst shot. when he missed single cushion
carom ~ 4 narrow margin. He passed the three
hundred point mark in his reXt. with run of
fourteen ana v-1s las points I'm the lead.
-iossor's thirty seventh inning, after Sutton mad
scered 3 was eun Of brilliant shots one in par
tEeular four-cusIion aFfair. for pretty gather,
chat was highly appreciated by the crowd. The
balls iine6 mp on his twenty-second shot. and he
bsreiv missed d rNo-cushion bank. Af,er two bad
.rnings The student practically settled the
tss5 N the high nun Of the ssn1e5S He was almost
~ points "a the .ead the reading Sosson SsI
sattos 20T From that point slossor had the match
81 band sattlough sutton pulled Up a little with
rssn OF 81 MS highest OF the evening, in tie
-s~-..y-sixth inning. and 3 in TIE next.
1Ae score follows:
ss4Frs : s?s'?o s a i IS K K 3 5, &
IL Total . SEQ o ;sa IS r@a! u s 50 Ss g - ? as sS
eesrge 2 su5'o1-9 q, = 4s IS Is p. Il. l.
q e. = / : g 4 !.
E l. Total SO. H:sh runs. 81. as. "a 81 aver.
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