New-York tribune., 1912-03-07
WINS CLOSE MATCH.
Beats Porter by Six Balls in
Pocket Billiard Tournament.
EASY GAME FOR CARTER
Tilt Also Scores, Defeating N.
N. Williams by More than
Fifty Balls.


Tieing the score in next 10 the last frame,
+. f. Gray. a former champion of the
Amateur Billiard club, won the closest
match played in the national amateur
pocket billiard championship tournament
yesterday afternoon at the New York Ath-
letic Club The other winners Of the
matinee games were Lester r. Carter, at
Pauls Riverside Academy. 125th street and
LenoX avenue, and William A. Tilt, at the
Amateur Billiard club. OF New York, Iith
street and Broadway.
The shortest of the competitions. that in
which Carter defeated DR.. Matthew s.
Borden by the score of 12j balls TO &C. went
through thirteen frames at the Riverside
Academy. Tilt, the former champion OF
the New York Athletic club, had nearly
a easy time with y. y. Williams, the
Crescent Athletic Club champion. as the
match was completed in fourteen frames TO
the score of 70 balls TO "a. Gray defeated
c. b. Porter, the Buffalo player, at l25 balls
to 1l9 in seventeen innings.
Gray played a plucky match, although
he experienced enough bad rolls to have
discouraged half a dozen players. Porter
broke the first pyramid, and Gray picked
off 13 balls He continued, after Porter
break. with more out Of the second frame,
thus hanging up his high run Of the match,
with IS balls. Porter kept making things
hard for his opponent, however. by clever
safety play. Gray most OF the time was
shooting with the cue ball nesting up to-
the bunch or frozen to cushion. The two
came together in the sixteenth frame, with
a tie at 10 balls. Gray had to break, and
he made a good one. Porter managed to
pick off two of the globes and then fozzled
a cut shot TO side pocket That gave
Gray his chance. lie ran off before
scratching In their closing turns at the
table both men were striving so hard TO
win that each missed rdiculously simple
shots. Porters high run was Is balls
The scores follow:
At NEW YORK ATHLETIC CLUB-Afternoon
Z. T. Gray-i3, S. ]. G. Q. s. 10. IL 3. 10. ?. 10,
s. Q. O. Totai-12s balls; scratches. B. net
score. 12j. high run. II.
IL. s. 2 Il, . Total-I23 balls. scratches.
4. net score. I19: high run 16
Ecteree-Nilliam llallin.
At PAULs RIVERSIDE AcADEMY-Aftcr-I
noon game
Lester T. Cartcr-f II. II. ;. :. II. -. IL. s. o.
.. Il. :. Totai-I27 balls: scratches. 2. not
score, 30; high run, 10.
z q. q. l. s Total-S7 balls: scratch. /.
score. 6s. high run. 10.
R'fcroe-AleNandor Fields
At AMATEUR BILLIARD CLUB-Afternoon
William A. Tnt-ll. II. :. TO- z. 6, 10. :. II, g.
.. II. II. o T0tal-l26 balls, scratch. /.
net score. ~: high run. ~.
-. y. william I. =, =. 10. :. T. 9. l. ., 10.
,. /. -. Total--77 balls. scratches. ;. net
score. -. high ron, II.
Referee Leo Brlen
Faulty playing Of a sure combination on
tho part Of cecil Munoz made It possible
for T. T. Reynolds. rated as the foremost
player in tuls country among the amateurs,
to win the evening game at the Amateur
Billiard club. The final score was 12j balls
10 l20 As tho two faced the last pyramid
Munoz needed only five balls and Reynolds
tho entire 1j Reynolds broke and left
Munoz an easy shot. The latter bungled
II and left the spheyes spread out for
Reynolds. who picked all off the table and
won. Each made g scratches and runs OF
IL balls.
The scores follow:
f. F. Raynoids-a 10, ., ?. /. b. :. -. 10 I. Is.
/. . 3. :. H. is. Total-ISo balls, scratches.
.; net score. 10: hish run. u
Cecil Mnnoz1e TO- q;,i ia r. 70, TO- + l. O.
D. net score. l2o: high run a.
Referce-I@o O'Brlen.
William H. Anders one OF the leading
players of the Amateur Billiard Club. won
the evening game at Paul's Riverside Acad-
emy. 125th street and Seventh avenue. lie
defeated the Connecticut player, r. G.
Everett, OF the Rivervew Yacht Club. by
rs balls TO 81 Anderss dead ball shots. his
use OF the cushions and his ingenuity in
finding the combinations mado him a slight
leader throughout the sixteen frames.
Anderss best run was of 16 balls out OF
the seventh and eighth pyramids
The scores follow:
AT PAUEs RIVERSIDE, EVEN
ING GAME
William II. Anders-13. d. 2. II. 10, I, II. ~. 4.
9. ~ 7. 19. 7, s. 4; total i2s balls scratches,
E. G. Everett, 0. 13. >. 2, u. 4, 3, H.. ~
3. s. 2, 5. !, I; total. iOl balls; scratches,
4 net score 81 balls; high run IA balls
Referee-Alexander Fields.
c. b. Porter changed his tactics after
losing the afternoon game at the New
York Athletic Club, and won in the even
ing. Porter defeated George r. Brown by
score Of 125 balls to SO. The Buffalo
player experienced a lot OF hard luck, but
he had his courage with him and went out
for the combinations and long shots The
result was that he piled up six scratches
I'm sixteen frames. His best run was 20.
which was likewise the top run OF the
day Browns best run was H. In the first
frame, and he made six scratches.
The score follows:
c. r. Porter-1. II. Q, o. II, 10. II. S. 3. I. TO-
b. S, IL, o, 3; total, l3l balls; scratches, q,
net score, l25 balls; high run. % balls.
George T. Brown--i4 I. q. q, /. D, 4. I. IL s.
o. 10, T. 4. q. K; total, 90 balls: scratches, o:
net score. OK balls; high run II balls.
Vcferce-Willlam Hatlin