Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-19
De ORC RETAINS
POOL CHAMPIONSHIP
Cuban Vanquishes Clearwater
in Three Nights Play by
Final Score Of 600 to 500.

Orc successfully defended his title as
pool champion in defeating William
Clearwater Of Pittsburg, the challenger,
after three nights play at Doyle's Acad-
envy last night, by the score of go to
:OS. After playing only a few frames
on the opening night the challenger drop
ped in the rear. and was unable to over
take the Cuban, who gradually drew
away in the two succeeding nights play,
until he finally led his opponent by 81
points.
De Orc displayed superior form at all
times, and although the general opinion
OF pool experts was that luck favored the
champion, and was the reverse for Clear
water, the latter made a brilliant Uphill!
fight in the closing contest when after
he had been clearly outplayed, and De
Orc had only three points to go, Clear
water cleared the table four times. max
ing a rally Of GO before he finally broke
ground in the tWenty-sixth frame and al
lowed De Gro to run the necessary three
to complete his score of go.
During this last and trying effort Clear
water made the record high run Of the
tournament tallying II balls, and the
crowd, which had already made prepara-
tons to leave when De Gro ran 10 in the
minds and waited for the final outcome.
Had Big Lead.
At the opening of the game last night
the score stood 4os to 32l in favor of the
Cuban, which meant that the challenger
would have to run out 279 balls while the
champion negotiated 1872.
When De Gro won the title last Noven-
Der from Jerome Fl. Keogn it was after a
hard uphill fight on the last night, when
he made a record high run Of 81.
The champion took twelve balls in the
second frame In fine style. making the
tallies all in rapid succession. but fell
down on a long draw shot. and went to
his seat leaving three on the table in easy
positions for Clearwater. The latter man
aged to get the lions share in the next
frame when he pocketed eleven spheres
while the Cuban ran four, the score at
this point being 431 to 343 in favor of
De Orc.
Ordinary playing marked the next two
frames. the players seesawing in their
scores Of and and and Q, after which
De Orc broke and missed hiS play, while
Clearwater cleared the table for the first
time, running out the full allotment OF
the pyramid. The clean sweep of Clear
and he saw trouble ahead, but he fortified
himself In the next three frames by TAX
ing them in commanding style.
Increases Lead.
In the seventh he pocketed 10, increas-
ing the eighth by three, getting IL, and in
the ninth he cleared the board in fine
style, making his score at the close of the
frame 49, to Clearwater's s7S.
De Gro slowed up after this and in the
tenth frame be negotiated only three
plays, all at long angles, While the bal
ance that were all we'll placed went to
his opponent. Clearwater played safe in
the eleventh frame and pocketed eight Of
the fifteen balls. but on the succeeding
frame. which De Orc broke. he remained
at play until the entire frame had dis
appeared, making his second clean sweep
Twelve more tallies were scored by the
Cuban in the thirteenth frame. which
Clearwater lost on a try that spread the
balls all in easy style for De Oro
fast. and up to this point De Orc had
only one blank against his score, while
two were visible on Clearwater's sheet.
On the fourteenth frame the challenger
brought applause from the crowd that sat
eagerly watching his work, when he tried
for and made glued combination kiss
shot. During this frame the brilliant
work of Clearwater only netted him Z,
while De Orc made tho balance with ease.
Luck With Clearwater.
The worries favored the challenger in
the next pyramid and after breaking safe
he was we'll on his way for a sweep, but
fell down after making ten taillies on a
side cushion shot, and De Orc came up
and scored the remaining five. De Oros
play was not to be questioned, as he
went along despite the sentiment of the
onlookers. who took his play as only ordi-
nary, and during the sixteenth frame he
pocketed the entire fifteen spheres, MAX
ing this his third clean sweep. De Gro
made the high run in the eleventh,
twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth frames,
negotiating AZ balls on four pyramids.
After his high run OF fifteen De Gro
continued to get the better portions of all
the five succeeding frames. and wound
up by clearing the green on the twenty
first of all the ivoriss, which brought his
score up to J97. Atthis stage Clearwater
broke the twenty-second and In the next
four held the cue all the time. and being
in the ruck for 157, pulled out 60 TALES,
which was an unusual ending and re-
duced the gap between himself and DE
Orc 10 los