Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-01
DE ORC ENDS MATCH
Defends Title Against Hueston
in Pocket Billiards.
LOSER SHOWS HIS NERVE
With Victory Out of Reach He Does
Best Playing He Has
Exhibited.

NEW YORK. March by a score
OF 600 to 1856 Alfredo De Gro successfully
defended his championship title at pocket
billiards In a match that ended in John
Doyle's academy last night. The veteran
wizard had the match practically won
when he started the last block of points.
as Tom Hueston. the challenger, had cor
raled only % points the two first nights
against 100 for De Orc Hueston made
his boldest bid for victory, and. playing
brilliantly at times finished with a total
of ISL for the night, showing great nerve
and resourcefulness by clearing the table
twice when De Orc needed only one tally
for victory.
AS for De Orc. the billiard impresario
John Doyle stated that never in his career
had the almost perpetual champion scored
with such celebrity or shown better manip-
ulation. His finesse was remarka BILE and
the strength of the shots in which he
scattered the pyramid was judged with a
nicely that seldom failed to obtain the de-
sired result
Hueston played in spots with certainty
that deserved better reward and cleared
the table five times to the one clean sweep
credited to De Orc. He made his best run
of the series with 81 and also finished
with a larger total than he had made
either of the other nights. He had no
chance for victory. however, against the
champion. who apparently defies time
For twenty-sX years De Orc has either
been the titleholder or fighting for that
honor, and he plays better now than in
1887. when he made his debut as a pro-
fessonal and tied with Malone and Frey
for the championship.
Hueston broke the balls to open the
play, but De Orc took all but one in the
opening frame. leaving that for Hueston,
so that the challenger should take his
chance on the opening shot again. For
seven frames he pursued this policy. de-
liberately missing the last ball so that his
opponent had the difficult task of breaking
the bunch. Hueston had a spell of luck
in the fourth frame and. carrying over
one ball from the third. finished with a
run of 16 before he let De Orc in after
the opening shot in the fifth.
Meager counts followed for Hueston.
and as De ORC went steadily along
pocketing the tractable spheres the score
in favor Of the champion was 12l to 40
when De Orc finished a run OF 80 In
the twelfth frame. A difficult cut for
the corner hung in the jaws of the
pocket just as the experts were figuring
on the chance of new record.
Hueston's score mounted steadily after
that and he earned applause by diff
cult round-the-table shot for position
when clearing the table in the thirteenth
This squirt Melted him a run OF fifteen.
and after De Orc had gone further
ahead in the fifteenth Hueston started
his big run. After making eleven straight
in the sixteenth he picked the balls Off
one by one until only three were left
i'm the next frame. Hueston studied
carefully before making the next snot
and finally secured good position for the
run which ended in the eighteenth frame
There were safety plays in the
twentieth and twenty-second frames that
delayed the inevitable result. Then Hues-
ton made his last gallant stand in the
twenty-ffth and twenty-sixth frames. He
missed the hoodoo thirteen ball and De
Orc picked it off for victory.
The scores:
De Oro-l3, 4, 1s. 0. IS. 1G. IL. 13 4. IL.
Il, II, o. 3. II, o. o. 4. 4. TO- Is. IL, IL. 10,
O. o, J. Total, 1O5; scratches. ): net total,
200. First night. 300; second night. 200;
grand total. GOO
Hueston-1. 10. 1, IA, I. ]. =. ]. 10, I, o..
3. Il, 9. ). IA, u. 10. 10 L. L. .. .. I. ~,
-. 1. Total. 16l: scratches 4: net total
1871. First night IS; second night. 1871; grand
total, 3SG.