New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-12
PLAYED FINE BILLIARDS.
Match Between Morningstar
and Sutton Best in Years.
HOPPE NEXT CHALLENGER
Welker Cochran, Fourteen
Year Old Star, to Give
an Exhibition.

The match between Orlando Morning
star and George Sutton played at Pitts
burgh last Thursday was one Of the best
contests on record for the 1871 champion
ship. Morningstar, who had one more
inning than sutton, won by margin OF
% points and averaged 1862 Sutton's
average was l54O.
There were no high runs, the winners
best single score being S., while the
losers high run was IS. These figures
show steady playing by both contestants.
incidentally. it is noteworthy that the
game was the first championship billiard
match ever decided in Pittsburgh. The
next challenger, probably William +.
Hoppe, will undoubtedly have to seek the
1871 title in the Smoky City, where Morn
ingstar is now a fixture. .-.
Frank Keeney has arranged TO, make
billiards lively at the Knickerbocker Far
Tor, Brooklyn, during the rest of this
month and the first week of February.
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
this week George Moore will exhibit at
three cushions. The first two nights he
will meet Charles OTIS Moore holds the
worlds three cushion record for high
run. Is. Otis has run IA in a tournament.
which equals the amateur record. The
third night Moore VIII meet j. W. Lou
derbach.
Welker Cochran, the fourteen-year-old
boy, who recently finished first In ham
dicap tournament at Mussey's, Chicago,
will give an exhibition on January 20, Fl
and q. a balkline tournament in which
MnrriC RrpUp national M o cham
pion, will figure, will follow on the 18th.
George Sutton. who will meet William
F.. Hoppe for the 1872 championship at the
Hotel Aston on February 5, wishes to
finish his practice for that struggle In
New York, and is trying TO arrange to do
so. Hoppe is already in excellent condi-
ton for the match. Experts who have
been watching his practice at .McGraw' 8
say he is playing better than ever before.
George. F. Slosson and Koji Yamada
will be at Charley Peterson's, in st.
Louis. this week Peterson is conceded to
be the best fancy shot player in the coun-
try. and the little Oriental Will have to
indulge in some unusual pyrotechnical
work in order to enthuse Mound City
devotees Of billiards. ..-
william F.. Hoppe will be at the Leader.
Washington, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A tournament at 1872 bal!<line will begin
at Kleins parlors, Baltimore, on January
90 There are seven entrants, among
them William l.. Unduch, champion OF
Maryland. The others who will compete
are Edward Baker. +. II. Dinhart. Philip
y. Lang, s. Blumenfield F. G. Keene and
John Dunn. A handsome loving cup Will
be first prize
Harry Hart OF Brooklyn. has chal-
lenged the winner of the pending contest
between Alfredo De ORC and Thomas
Hueston for the pocket billiard cham
pionship, and has deposited with the
Brunswick Bake Collender Company the
amount required to validate such pro-
| cedure. De Orc and Hueston will COM
pete the latter part of February. The
champion will practice at Tim Flynn's.
while Hueston will prepare at Sam
Gruhn's.
In twenty-three years De ORC has lost
only four pocket billiard matches. He
has been beaten several times in tourna-
ments, but has been almost invincible in
matches. His first defeat. was at the
hands OF Powers. at Hardman Hall, New
York, on May s, and 10, 1889. Four years
later Clearwater mastered him in con-
test at Pittsburgh. on November z, ) ana
4. In 1889, In six nights competition, AT
l50 balls each night. at Maurice Days,
Keogh beat him. His last defeat in a
match took place at st. Louis on Novem-
Der 10, II and IS, 1905, when Hueston won
the championship.
Los Angeles has Young Women
Friendly Club. 1t is a home for working
| girls. and IS conducted by the Salem Con-
gregational Church of that city. one OF
the recreations at the club is pocket
billiards, two tables suitable for tnat
game having recently been supplied by
the Brunswick Bake Collender Company.
| 1.-THE San Pedro (Cal.) News" of recent
date contains an article on billiards which
| was evidently written by man OF well
rounded age and experience. Some of the
| things II says are
or all the various pastmes that IN
terest men when winter weather Vetoes
outdoor sports probably none exercises
more complete fascination than Dill
iards. j.
| Al the age of forty. when a fel low Is
| lust developing into real billiard play
| err. he Is hooted OFF the ball field as an
old man. On the lawn tennis court MS
pounding heart may suggest that he had
better retire. Even at golf. the prep
schoolboy may beat out the veterans
merely because his muscles swing in
unison and rhythm with self-conscious-
ness
not study carefully the mechanics or
billiards, or. for that matter, of any
game played with ball. The beginner
| thinks only In terms of straight angles
Rut even IL he becomes skilful to that
extent he soon finds he is as helpless as
| a baseball pitcher with no curves.
The problems OF draw" follow" and
English" shots seem beautifully COM
MEX and reconcile. They are really per-
| fectIy simple and consist merely Of the
effect in DETECTING motion produced by
| twisting a ball in one OF four general
drections-forward or back. right or left
| You see these forces work when you roll
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