Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-19
BILLIARD TITLE
FOR ALFRED De ORC
Defeats Hueston for Worlds
Three-Cushion Championship
by a Score of $50 to ia.

NEW YORK, May 19-Alfred De Orc
won the three-cushion billiard champion
ship OF the world last night by defeating
Thomas HIueston, the title holder. by a
score of $50 to III as a result of three
nights play at Doyle's Billiard Academy,
West 42d street. The match was played
In blocks Of fifty points, and each was
won by De Orc. The first evening he
scored a victory by 80 to Al, the next
evening by so to 35, and last night the
score read 30 to 3S.
Hueston played high-class billiards, but
he could at no time approach the form
displayed by the new champion, who gave
an exhibition the like Of which has not
been seen in a three-cushion billiard
match fer long time. An indication Of
what was accomplished by De Orc is
shown by the number Of innings which 1t
took him to complete his string OF 40
points. The first night sixty innings
were played. Tuesday night the total was
sixty-two and last night siXty-one, or a
total Of 1S3 innings for his $50 points.
At Top of Game.
De Orc was at the top Of his game, and
for a time last evening he gave an ex-
hibition that far outclassed anything
which he accomplished In the other two
James of the match. Not only was he
brilliant getting caroms from difficult
leaves" but after the middle of the
game ne steadIed down and played con-
sistently, with no particularly high runs,
but steady counts that increased his to-
tai rapidly. From the twenty-eignth to
the thirty-eighth inning he totaled eight
cen points, with the highest run three.
and from the twenty-cighth to the for
ty-eiehth inning he satnered thirty
points, which brought his total to AZ.
After this he fell down somewhat and IL
took him thirteen innings to assemble
mis- count Of eisht for the completion OF
ms string Of fifty.
For a while 1t looked as If De Orc would
beat his opponent even more decistveiy
than In the two previous nights. When 1t
was evident. however, that the match was
out of the reach OF the st. Louis player
ne played with more ease and perhaps a
Bit OF recklessness, so that he cut down
De OroS lead mat rally. At the end of
the forty-eighth inning De Orc was lead
ing by 10 points, and with the same form
that he was then displaying it appeared
that he would defeat his rival by al least
II or Ii points.
Hueston's Hard Luck.
While De Orc unquestionably outclassed
Hueston, the latter certainly did pay in
some hard luck. Many times ne was
kissed" out Of points that seemed GER
tain of being chalked up. This was the
rule throughout the three nights play.
De Orc. on the other hand. escaped such
misfor,unes many times by the slightest
margin.
During the first part of last nights
match De Orc was not playing any too
well. In twenty-seven innings he was
able TO add to his count only 10 points
but Hueston could not seem to take ad
vantage of the misses Of his opponent.
and his total for the same number of in
nings duplicated that Of De Orc. All dur
ing this period Of play the lead alternated
frequently, with never more than one or
two points separating the rivals.
Huestous best play came In the thirty
second inning. when he gathered a neatly
worked out cluster of five, which stood
as the best run Of the evening. His next
best total was four, negotiated in the
fifty-second inning. De Oro's best run
was four. in the forty-fifth inning. but he
had six runs of three.
1t was announced last night that Lloyd
Jevney Of Salt Lake City. the western
champion at the tllrec-cus,lion game. had
challenged De Orc for the championship.
According to the rules. the match must
be Played within sixty days. and il will
probably take place at Doyle's Academy.