New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-12
SAFETY PLAY GALORE
Second Elimination Round in
Billiard Tourney Drags.
A CHANGE IN THE PLANS
Levine, by Clever Cue Work,
Beats Moon in Glass
&C" Match.

Safety billiards. the kind the National
Association Of Amateur Billiard Players
attempted to lcgi-latc against in the new
rules Of tho game. prcdominatcd al the
second elimination round Of the national
class & IS balklne championship yestcr-
DAY at Maurice Days academy. fsth
street and Broadway. Claude X. Lewis
Of Brooklyn. irving Levine, OF the city
Athlete club. and William w. Harris. OF
tho Dunwoodic Country club. were the
winners 81 tho afternoon session and
three other survivors were brought ont in
tho night games.
II had been the intention Of ". W. IIar-
ris. sylvester Levy and Lcdyard Blake
tho committee 10 draw the twelve sur
Vlvors Of the first days matches I'm four
sections for a round robin. The possibil-
itv Of = great number or tic. however
caused the decision IN favor Of second
round cliiniuliiou tho six survivors of
the two days OF competition to meet In
tic round robin series which will decide
the championship tito.
Levine welded his cue IT, the best man
rcr durin. INC afternoon session AZ the
table. He defeated George Temple Moon,
ir. Of Brooklyn hv tho final score Of m
points to iae and hung Ny an average OF
s2-5S together with high runs OF y. =
and t. Moons average was 27-55 and his
hest runs were ~. 4 and T.. The man
nor I'm which Levine put together his
clusters Wa easily the best hslkline Of
the afternoon session. only when Moon
oprcarcd to he closing mp the gap in tho
last innings did tho city Athletic cum
PLAYER attempt 'afcty Even then II wa
a mild variety which allowed Levine tn
count solidly 10 The end.
The other two matches had sufficient
safety for an entire tournament Maurice
DAILY said that tho difficulty with the
amateurs was that they studiously prac-
tiscd nursing and then devoted their at
t.ntion 10 safety in matches. which d.
ninishcd average and rms. Claude Lew
is and Albert H. Rombcrg were the worst
offender IN this respect II required -
innings before Lewis won by tho score OF
M poiuts to lsi. which reduced his aver
,oe tn 500. while his runs were only "A,
~ aud H. Romherg foll To an average Il
sa.95 and his only double figure clusters
were Is and II.
Harris and George Spear. ~ Orange,
y. j.. had = great battle at balklinc be
fore the former won at 30 points TO 1872.
Spear having four opportunities to count
his winning point. while Harris needed
four 10 complete his string Harris put
together A fine compilation Of 30 closely
l., i,b bsI
h, attempted l. work out cushion carrom
shots. as Spear widely spread the globes so
that his average dropped TO J6-''. while
his otter good runs were 10 and 49, Spear
Averaged . i7-16, and his runs were II. -
and n.
The three PLAYERS who qualified in the
night games were clyde Il. Terry. the
holder OF the championship title. Philip
Weschler and G. =. Mathews. Terry de-
feated Frederick T. Mitchell by a score
of 200 points TO $40. with an average OF
26-5S and high runs Of -. II and IL.
Mitchells best run was Q.
Wescher eliminated Or. II. W. lIaw-
lev of Danbury. Conn. by "A score of 200
points to l6S. In this match Weschler
PLAYED close billiards and hung up the
best average so far with 2-33 and high
runs OF 81 80 and 90. Mathews. the
Brooklyn player, OF the invincible Club.
defeated +. X Appleby 10y a score of 200
points TO $50 The winners average was
2St-S3 and his best runs. II. II and 10.
80 matches will be decided In the tour
nament to-day. The six survivors OF
the elimination rounds VIII begin com
petitions IN the round robin for the
.,..I.....l,in -tnnLrnM a fiernOOn.