Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-31
MORN|NGSTAR WINS
F0URSTRA|CHTc GAMES
New Yorker Still Unbeaten in
Championship Billiard
Tourney.

NEW YORK, March 31.-Ora Morning
star, the one unbeaten player in the
worlds championship tournament at 1872
balk line billiards, went through his
fourth match in the series last night in
the concert hall Of Madison Square Gar
den. winning by big margin from Albert
G. Sutler Of Boston.
In the afternoon match II. p. Cline Of
Philadelphia won his first match Of the
tournament, beating Louis Cure Of France.
Both games were well contested. in spite
of the one-sfded scores. the greater inter-
est centering In Morningstar's match. as
he has displaced Sutton as the favorite
for the championship.
In the opening Of the Morningstar-Cut-
Ter match the low record OF the tourna-
ment was made in the first ten innings.
66-1O for Cutler. then in the lead. and
$40 for Morningstar. Playing the spot
ball, Morningstar made the break. and
with three blanks in nine innings did
not actually settle down to the game
until the eleventh inning. Then, playing
cautiously and with fine mastery OF the
balls, he nursed out run Of 80, and with
the prospect Of going on indefinitely for
feited his shot through his too careful
nursing. by failing to drive the balls over
the balkline In making his ninety-first
shot. From that point MOrningstar' 8
game improved to about his average for
the tournament.
Cutler. on the other hand. played about
the same game through the match, show
ing really wonderful judgment or his
angles and rare skill in his around the
table play, but his control of the balls
through all the first three-quarters Of the
game was poor. He made many more
misses In his play for position than at tine
dimcult shots that presented, and had a
tx !, fe 81 1Hn
balls were. spread at every other shot. and
the count was made almost entirely in
caroms from many cushions. He lost his
shot, In. a play for position on an easy
draw shot.
:. MorninSstar's steadier play put the New
Workers. count at 800 in the seventeenth
inning. and with run OF IS he went past
the 400 mark in the twenty-second inning.
leading Cutler then by more than 40.
Cutler In his next inning played with good
management Of the balls, and made his
best run Of the match. 40, but Morning
stars lead was too great for him TO over
come. and the New Yorker, with 23 in his
twenty-fifth inning. ran out for the
match.
Cline's victory over the French cham
pion. Cure, In the afternoon, was the
closest. hardest-fought and longest up
Hill struggle OF the tournament. Cline
played in the best form that he has
shown in the series. and the Frenchman
played below his average. but that did
not detTact from a singularly interesting
contest for the light crowd in attendance
Luck was against Cline, and he had to do
most of his counting in open play around
the table his skill at three-cushion caroms
serving to give him the game by IL points
after the score had varied with first one
and then the other in the lead through
out.
Cure turned his first hundred in TWO
innings. and his second hundred In eight
innings. and led by 262 TO ia when Cline
began his gains, and in five turns. with
a high run of 81, tied the score in the fif
teenth. The rivals seesawed it out then,
Cline winning by 500 to is1. the winner
So. The scores:
Worlds champion billiard tournament at lS.a
balk line. 500 points 10 each game:
FOURTEENTH MATCH AFTRNOON.
H. r. Cline-1O 10 ~ 23 Il 8 o =: 81 l6
Total-5O0. High runs-S2, A. 5o. Average
Is 2O-i2.
louis Cure-o6 - 9 D 80 - 43 / IL 70 IL /
y Il II 81 o 81 II D a i q q o 3d.
Total-4S1. High runs-I4, oil. IS. Average
Is 1872.
FIFTEENTH MATCH-EvENING.
Ora Norningstsr-f 3 3 10 = o 10 o Q 10 10 81
High rnnA-35 90. IS. Average-2O.
Albert c. Cutler-O 20 al o 0 9 0 Il 6 IS Is
I. 2 u o "a 40 o 10 -. Total-31U. nigh
runs-7l. -. -. Arerage-12 224
Referee-Edward Mclaughlin.
In the game set for this afternoon
Louis Cure will play his last match Of
TIE tournament against George Sutton.
In the evening George Slosson and DEM
Arrest are to play.