New-York tribune., 1912-03-12
CARTER BEATS DOUGLAS
Clever Position Play Counts in
Pocket Billiard Match.
NOW DOWN TO THE FINALS
Hyman Beats Reynolds by Two
Balls After Bitter Struggle
in the Evening.

Pretty work in picking off the long shots
and at position manpuyring made II pos.
sible for Lester T. Carter to defeat Dr.
Walter G. Douglas, yesterday afternoon, In
| the first game of the finals for the national
amateur pocket billiard championship, at
the Amateur Billiard Club OF New York,
18th street and Broadway. The score was
rs balls TO Sc. The two competitors were
winners in the division that met at Paul's
Riverside Academy, 125th street and Seventh
avenue Last week.
While Carter played we'll in winning the
first of the series that will lead to the title
he was steady rather than brilliant He
soon realized the streak In which HIS op-
ponent, DR.. Douglas, was playing, and took
long chances. with the result that only
once did he get the worst of his daring.
AS for DR.. Douglas, he made the difficult
shots and slipped up on the easy ones.
The former champion OF the New York
Athletic Club repeatedly jawed the ball on
the simplest Of direct shots. The result
was that Carter led all the way through
seventeen frames, having a high run Of 10
balls and twenty scratches. The high RUN
for DR.. Douglas was the same as for the
winner. and he had nineteen scratches.
One Of the stirring periods OF the match
came in the eleventh frame. Carter broke
and so spread the globes that DR.. Douglas
picked off ten, when. by faulty position
playing, he was compelled to resort 70
safety. Carter spied a combination. He
was somewhat timorous about playing II.
as he was expecting the doctor to strike
his normal gait The shot went wrong, and
DR.. Douglas cleared the remaining fye
balls from the table.
That frame was the best that DR.. Douglas
had Carter played a lot Of safety there
after, which, however, did not appear TO
greatly influence the outcome. He had the
better of all OF the closing frames, and won
by safe margin.
The six competitors who qualified for the
final and deciding matches In the champion.
ship tournament are as follows:
AT the New York Athletic Club-E. +.
GRAY and Arthur y. Hyman.
At Pauls Riverside Academy, 12oth street
and Seventh avenue-Dr. Walter G. Douglas
"'ls AZ the Amateur Billiard Club OF New
York; F. Rayrolds and William A. Tilt.
The scores follow:
Lester F. Carter-l4, II. II. 0, 9, 5. 10, S, II.
7, 0. 10. 10. 10, 10 9, 7, Total las balls:
scratches, 20; net score, i2S balls; high run.
10 balls
DR.. Walter G. Douglas. 4, :, g. 0, 10 g. 7.
4. S, 10, 5, ., 8, 5. Q. x. Total 1o2 balls;
scratches. 10; net score. So balls; high rdu'
.. Referee-WiIiam A. Morsohhauser.
Arthur B. Hyman won the evening game
in the tightest sort Of finish. He defeated
E. F. Reynolds, rated as the most formi-
dable amateur In this country, by the score
~ 10 hannanad
nolds gave the crowd that sat about the
table enough thrills to last for month.
Throughout the opening frames Lyman
played wonderful position shots. and by
studious attention worked out some start
ling combinations which sent his tally
along In excellent fashion. AT the tentn
frame Hyman led by the score. OF IS balls
10 80 and in the fourteenth frame by loo to
AZ. II was then that Reynolds displayed
his skill, for he brought the score level ana
forged into lead in the sixteenth frame.
The situation was ticklish one, as
Hyman broke the seventeenth pyramid.
Then Reynolds attempted shot along the
rail directly TO the corner pocket. ne
played too softly. and left Two oais sosnI1 ia, "a
balls balls aa Tas HeS9t tieaS az ,ss balls for each
Raynolds broke the last pyramid, out u
was a poor effort. for Hyman saw the
chances and he went 70 the oalls SO
skilfully that he won by the close margin
Of two halls.
The scores follow:
Arthur b. Hyman--7, 49, IL. s. IA, o.. - O,s:
is. S, 0, o. 5. 2, 0. l3, q total, 10 oams' is
scratches. 6; net score. l25 balls; hish rum
f. r Raynolds--s, O. !, 10, /, Is. Q. l5 !. .m:
10. O. TO- i3. 10. 2, x total. ~ oans' aus
scratches, 4; net score, l23 balls; hish ru'|
10 balls.