Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-17
HOPPE ANNEXES
ANOTHER TITLE
BEATS GEORGE SUTTON BY
EASY MARGIN
BOY WONDER PLAYS HIS USUAL
STRONG GAME
Former Champion Starts of in Lead,
but the Youngster Finishes
Strongly and Resains
Title
Associated Pressl

CHICAGO, March 16.-Willie Hoppe
of New York tonight won the 1871 balk
line billiard championship of the world
by defeating George Sutton of Chicago
the final score being: Hoppe, 800; Sut-
ton, 22S Hopes average was 16 2O-SO
and Sutton's 1923.
According to the terms of the match,
which were named by Hoppe, as chal-
lenger, the victor carried off the dia-
mond emblem, the stake money,
amounting to $500, and the entire box
office receipts. Sutton regained the
title from George Slosson at New YORK
June 2, 1909, after losing 1t to Slosson
January &c, 1909. Edward II. Sample
of Minneapolis refereed the contest
Hoppe won the bank and missed the
opening shot. He left set up and
Sutton collected 20 at his first trial.
For the next six innings Sutton
played a strong, consistent game, keep
ing his average close to 10, while Hoppe
was unable to bring the balls under
control He was compelled to make
the majority of his billiards at long
range. In the seventh, however, he
brought together 20 by succession OF
difficult masse and round the table
shots. Sutton made a couple of goose
eggs in the ninth and tenth, while
Hoppe ran up 81 in the ninth.
In his twelfth inning Hoppe took the
lead with run of 80, score at the end
of the twelfth standing: Hoppe, IA;
Sutton, 1876. From the twelfth inning
on, Hoppe gradually increased his lead,
and when the twenty-second was ended
he was 131 points ahead, the totals be-
ing: Hoppe, 1926; Sutton, 1875.
Sutton apparently lost both his stroke
and judgment of distance, missing sew
eral easy draw shots and one cushion
carom. Hopes game, on the other
hand, improved as the game wore on.
After the twelfth inning the game was
a one-sided contest, Sutton being un-
able to score in double figures with the
exception of his nineteenth, twentieth
and twenty-third innings. Hoppe ap-
peared to gain confidence after he
passed his rival, and played a strong
game at all times, rolling up runs of
81 and 81.
In the first six innings the young
player could not get his stroke, and
his opponent left the balls in difficult
positions. In the seventh inning he
collected 90, and after that he never
failed to score, while Sutton made
numerous blanks. When Hoppe came
up for his twenty inning he
needed siXty-siX billiards to go out. He
made A and left all three balls lined
up against the end rail. apparently an
impossible shot. He banked the length
of the table. making the shot in fine
style and leaving an easy draw, which
he missed. He made one in his twenty
eighth, leaving twenty to 60 After
making Is in the twenty-ninth he
missed an easy one-cushion carom.
Sutton scored three, and then Hoppe
went out. Score by innings:
Hoppe-O, 3. II, 1, 4, l, 20, 0, 81, 1, 25,
80, 30 3, IA, 21, l, 3, 10. 2S. 81, II, "a, ST.,
l, 16, 40, l, is. 900. High runs, 81, o.,
45; average, 16 20-3O.
Sutton-2O. 81. is. 0. 90, 7, 90. 6. o, O.,
9, 2, l, o. 0, s, 0, 3, IL, 2S, 4. 5, 20, g.,
2. l, /, 9, S-229. High runs, 81, 2S, 2S;
average, 25-29.