New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-19
SOME FLASHY BILLIARDS
Also Some ProSy Play as Big
Tournament Goes On.
CLINE BEATS DEMAREST
Morningstar Also Wins with
Two High Runs That
Show His Skill.

go haIkIfne worlds championship
tuuard tournament in the Hotel Astor.
,,oruinestar defeated Al Taylor by a
GORE Of $40 points TO $40, with an aver
.ga Of a fraction more than p and high
--,ns Of 12l. 100 and 80. Taylor's average
,ros shade more than Il, and his best
.,rs were G.. IS and %. Both Of Morning.
cars runs Of more than a hundred were
counted by clever nursing and deft ma
,,rulatior. Each furnished the iluminat-
inc spots of what proved to be a rather
prosy contest
cline defeated calvin Demarest by
s,ore OF so points to AS, the averages and
high runs being on the low side. It 50
bappened that Cline Demarest and the
referee. Albert G. Cutler, represented
tvo-that couple Of seasons ago toured
the country in a vaudeville act. AS Cline
and Dsmarest both struck bad slumps in
the scoring they began to inject echoes
az their former act into the match, When
the globes rolled slowly Cline yelled
.riddap." while Demarest stood mp and
called whoa" For the most part the
game was one Of banging cushion shots,
nartly accounted for by the fact that
the worries acted slusgishly because Of
the chill Of the room.
Morningstar seemed to be tuning up his
stroke with open table billiards as he
began his contest with Taylor. on his
fourth turn ne worked out a run Of A.,
which he Immediately backed up with 10
himself. BY the prettiest of ban to ball
carroms and the free use of the dead
hail drive ne counted four double figure
runs in succession, tallyng II, IS, 90 and
q The latter cluster turned the second
hundred mark, as his total was 200, while
Norningstar had only 1874 TO his credit.
II was not until the eleventh inning
that NOrningstar CoaXed the worries into
the somnoIeut stae. Then, with the cue
BAH futtering about the red and the
white. as the moth about the flame, he
led them along the lines for a total OF
~. until he missed on three-cushion
shot by which ne hoped 20 hold position.
Five innings later ne put together an inn
presslve run Of the same character which
tailed Jos before he had TO retire on
faulty follow shot. which kissed off.
Taylor spread the globes badly there
after. So that Morningstar had many I'M
remunorative innings, finally assembling
the worries on his twenty-third turn at the
table and finishing with 2S, which were
counted in the corners and along the end
rail
I'm the other match Demarest managed
10 get the lead at the beginning. prin-
cipalIy by a cluster of 20 counted in his
twelfth inning. The first p points OF this
ran we're made by def nursing. Then
Demarest rolled the balls widely for spec
tacuIar cushion shots. After that, Cline
managed to strike his gait He played
fairly close billiards. always favoring the
corners. Steadily he drew ahead Of Dem
Arrest his best performance being run
Of 50 I'm his twenty-seventh inning
Welding the cue as if the spirits Of
Frank Ives and Wizard" Schaefer dwelt
within him. Willie Hoppe, in the night
session OF the lS.2 balkline billiard cham
pioDsbfD tournament defeated George
Sutton by the overwhelming score Of 5Oo
points 10 40. Hoppe finished with what
now stands as the high record average
Of the tournament as mis- figure was
97-l7 His runs were 10l, 81, 81 and q.
Suttons play was weak. His average
was 1916 and his runs were 81, p and q.
At every stage the youthful professional
executed IN marvellous form. BY pc
cuiar freak OF scoring, Hoppe sand
viched I'm his topping masterful runs be-
tween unremunerative innings. This was
partially due TO the fact that Sutton, al
though seemingly not Intentionally was
prone TO leave the worries widely spread
for his young rival.
II was on his fifth turn at the table
that Hoppe coaXed the spheres into com
pact formation. and by the genuest Of
manipulation clicked of 50 along the head
o. the table. He soon followed with n,
and. then an impressive cluster Of 20 the
latter In his tenth inning. In the mlddie
Of this run Hoppe counted on racing
follow shot that was a gem and caused
the crowd to applaud wildly.
II almost appeared as If the young
player would finish on his sixteenth turn
By gentle stages he continued 10 lOl, and
drive threw him off, and he retired to
close the string with is that were deity
gsnered along the lines at the head Of
the table.
George +. slosson eliminated Kodji
ismada, the Japanese, from the triple Tie
for second place by defeating him in the
evening session at the table by the score
Of 20 points 10 S3l.
The Veteran Student finished splen-
cidIy, with some marvellous bits of nurS
ng bis average being Y Sal, and his
high runs being 70, Il and Al. The Jap
anese fell to an average OF l1-4O, and his
runs were few and far between. the best
being 81, 30 and %.
Siosson fi0undered around through the
early half OF the game in sorry fashion
as his stroke and the worries were as FAR
from accord as could well be imagined
The Jap was not much better, but he
managed TO forge into the lead. Coming
70 the table for the nineteenth time, Slos-
son began 20 DO better He gradually
took the KINKS out of his stroke by some I
splendid cushion shots, and then gently
'aiied the globes into a drowsy nurse
aions the line FOR %
AFTERNOON GAMES.
=, Aorningstar spot balD--O. T. ;. 40. 49, ~, ].
~ y. II, l2l g. ? 80 ? JOG. 20. Z. -. o. Q, ],
- Total, 500 points: average, u liz. High
.fsylor white bslD-o. 3. 2s. 81. 0. II. IS. SO,
80 J, 2, j, 2. 10. J. 3. l. 5. ~, ], IL. IOtai,
s ~ points, average II 2-22. High runs. ". 5s
Referee-Thonas ! Gallagher.
o, efnt tUhite hail. 90. 4. 3. %, A. 6, .,
~ %. Z. Z 81 Z 81 10 1 al d. Al. u. o.