New-York tribune., 1912-02-09
Has an Of Day, and Opponent
Takes Advantage of Oppor-
tunity to Pile Up Score.
Standing Of the
billiard Players

AS a rough and ready all-around billiard
player Percy Collins. the young Chicago
boy, made a remarkable showing yester-
day afternoon and thereby defeated Charles
+. Conklin, the international champion, in
the national amateur Class A lS.2 halkline
championship at the Hanover Club. Brook
lyn. The score was 400 points 10 &27. EX-
cept for the first few innings the doughty
Western boy led his more famous fellow
townsman. lie showed Conklin that he
possessed battling disposition toward
safety while at collecting the counts all
over the table he was as nimble as am old
hen picking up the corn az It IL scattered.
The match contained a lot Of unrcmunera-
tive innings. so that Collins finished with
an average Of 2 4-i4 and high runs Of 81. %
and 30. Conklin averaged below 10 for the
first time as his figure was Z 36-i3 and his
best runs were 59 90 and q.
For versatility at cushion carroms and
rapidity OF execution Collins put up an ex-
hibtion that will probably not be dupil-
Gated i'm the tournament He soon realized
that he was catching Conklin on an off-day
and he made the most Of It. as he kept the
worries racing all over the table and never
left Conkln anything that might be termed
a set-up. The latter was away off on his
cushion shots and his judgment Of speed
was so uncertain that the globes repeatedly
rolled into line-ups So often did ConEn
miss the wide ones when he came to the
table that he put no fewer than fifteen
goose eggs into his score.
The inning which sent Collins away into
the lead was the nineteenth. in which he
tailed &C. lie began by number OF lively
carroms. eventually gathering IN" balls at
the end Of the table Then ar .huTc1
( them back and forth along the short rail
for a time. Toward the end the globes
spread out. and re was compelled 10 play
wide nurse into the centre panel. COL
lns accomplished this prettily, but he
welded his cue with such marvellous
/ quickncss that lie finally appeared TO trip
over himself and retired because of a
4 badly managed cushion carrom.
/ Conklin made plucky effort TO retrieve
i lost ground on his twenty eighth turn At
the table. lie assembled the balls and held
them we'll together for counts which led
+ them along the cushions. At 80 the globes
kissed and scattered, ana Conklin went
wide on cushion shot by which he had
Calculated to gather them again. Strangely
enough, cOnkln was always uncertain, and
. lis general execution was far short Of any
previous game he had PLAYED in the tour
nament. This result promises to establish
another tie for the leadership for the hon
oTs.
The summary follows:
AFTERNOON GAME.
Percy Collins Cwhitc balD-s. o. 81. If q. q. 81.
81. :. 3. J. =. 2, %, g. >. /. 0. 3G 5 ,. o q. !.
H. :, $ !, o 33: !. 81. ., ., !. p, T. . !, 2,
4-44; high runs, 81 80 and 49,
Charles +. Conkliu spot halD--1G. 80. o. g. o. s.
2 ], o. J. l. g. 4, 1G. ., !. q. o. -. -, !. q. I.
o 1,Gs $, IS. o. o. 0. 0, Q T. :, o 7, %, o, 0,
1868. high runs. 20, 33 and y.
Reicree-ThOmas j. Gallagher.
DeXterity IN working out his cushion
shots. combined with answering execution.
made 1t possible for Morris d. Brown. of
the Hamilton Club, Brooklyn, to win the
evening game and take the leading posi-
/ tion for the title. Brown smothered Or.
Walter E. Ufenheimer, Of Philadelphia,
/ by a score of 100 points TO 1893.
/ He did more than that, for he hung nm
/ a new high run for the tournament, a col.
! lection of s. carroms, which surpassed in
| brilliancy the run OF j. Ferdinand Poggen.
| burg, which stood for nearly a week. Not
J only this, but Brown, who is now looked
upon as the dark horse Of the contest
backed his big run with an impressive
/ cluster OF S.
/ The match was not one of rapidity OF
movement, for there were many unfruitful
/ innings, so that the averages were not at
/ all commensurate with the scores.
The score follows:
EVENING GAME.
Q. Q, 2 8, 9, o .. q, . .. S. .. i 2, Q.