Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-02
/ IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS
KEOCH HOLDS LEAD
IN BIG POOL MATCH
Champion Hueston Forty-TWo
Points Behind Challenger
for the Title.

NEW YORK, February 2-Jerome r.
keogh. the challenger for the profess
sional pool championship OF the world.
last night still further increased his
lead over Thomas A. Hueston, the pres
ent title holder, in their six-hundred- point
match, now being played at the Concert
Hall Of the New York Theater. At the
end Of the nights play. which was the
second of the match. the score stood 40
to 1888 in favor of Keogh. The latter's
high run was 20. against Hueston's high
run Of II.
The play was very considerably faster
last night than on Monday. Longer runs
were more frequent. and all in all the
game was very much more interesting
that filled every available corner Of the
hall turned out. including many people
well known in the theatrical and athletic
worlds. When play commenced there
was not an empty seat.
A Good Start.
keogh broke and left Hueston APP
parently safe. but a master stroke in a
three-ball combination started Hueston
run of 10. After the break the cham
pion got six balls in the second frame
before he slipped up on an easy one, Civ
ing him nice start for the evening
keogh made a pretty shot from a bad
lead and ran off 8. missing on a fairly
easy side-pocket shot. Hueston took the
fifteenth ball off easily. The result of
these first two frames was that Hueston
had cut keoghs lead of Al down to q.
keogh missed difficult shot after
Hueston's break in the third frame. and
Hueston took all fifteen The champion
chose N l,a nd Inf
them seemingly in bad snarl Keogh
worked out a five-ball combination and
solved it successfully, but fell down after
getting another. Hueston then took IL,
completing a run of -. The challenger
missed an easy shot, and the champion
cleared the table.
Keogh Repeats.
Hueston broke again in the fifth frame.
and keogh repeated his former trick of
completing pretty combination, dupli-
eating it with one still more difficult,
getting thirteen before a position sho.
left him stranded. Hueston then made
the best shot of the evening on a diff
cult long table cut, but fell down on The
next. as did Keogh. too. But the cham
pion got busy and took the last ball off,
and then ran all fifteen In the sixth
frame. giving him the lead for the first
night, by the score Of 80 to 232
The seventh and eighth frames were
rather uneventful, being marked by !:
run of fifteen by each of the players TIL.
ninth was sort of puss-in-the-c corner
affair, both Hueston and keOgh making
four successive safeties before Hueston
sailed in and broke them up. But it fell
to the challenger to run them all off,
The tenth frame was unmarked by any
thing extraordinary. the general caliber
of the cue work being sufficiently high
in itself not to require any noteworthy
incidents. In the eleventh difficult
round-the-table shot netted Hueston the
fifteenth ball. with the other fourteen
likewise to his credit, with similar
result for the twelfth frame. Keogh took
all of them for the next three innings
and resumed the lead, which he had lost
in the twelfth by IS points.
The sixteenth seventeenth and eight
zenith rounds passed without special mo
ment. But the opening Of the nine
teenth witnessed remarkable cOmbina-
ton by Hueston from bad position.
after a good break by Keogf. For the
next three frames honors We're easy.