New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-21
SLOSSON BOWS
TO COCHRAN IN
BILLIARD TILT
Newsboy Now Tied with
Hoppe for Lead-Sntton
Defeats Mayer.
b. FRED HAWTHORNE.

Wciker tocnran, inc low" "e"SUoS'
known "a Burton Marks protege, Tor
the latter discovered him, fought his
way INFO a tie With william F. Hoppe
for the lead in the professional ha7di-
can billiard tournament at 49, balkline
IN the concert hall of the New FORK
Theatre Building last night by defeat
inc the veteran George Slosson. me
score was 800 points TO Il. Cochran 5
handicap was 200 points 20 Slos1on s
1875, thus making the totals for DOM
men 500 to 1876.
Cochran played brilliantly in taking
the measure Of Slosson, finishing MS
string in fifteen innings, for IN average
Of 20. and scoring high runs OF 49, %
and A. Slosson. utterly out OF stroKe
and apparently far from we'll physical
/ ~, was unable even TO approacn h'S
real form. c r
Chicago. defeated Joseph Mayer, ol
! PHILADELPHIA. the match holding the
/ spectators glued to their seats to the
last minute. Sutton won b. score
of 900 to 49S points. playing Wl'h
handicap of 1C0 10 Mayors 10. by
the loss Of this game Mayer drops 10
the bottom Of the list, with hVc de-
feats and no victories.
At times Sutton played in the style
that brought him fame score o.
vears ago. making q beautiful run Of
15S points in the eleventh inning
This gave him the lead over Mayer.
but the latter never lost heart and
PLAYED so evenly in the latter half Oh
the game that he rega'ncd me lead IN
the next frame with run OF 30 CDR
roms. and held his advantage until me
next to the last inning, needing only
two points for the game. Sutton re
ouired nine points when he began the
twenty seventh inning, and managed
TO click them of. thus winning see
saw contest under thrilling circum-
stances. .
Slosson remarked. after his match
/ with Young Cochran, that he had been
called uuon to do too much in the
/ tournament, having played Tuesday
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and iasI
night. while all the other players had
enioved respite OF at least day
between some of their matches. Inc
"Studont's" point seems well taken, e..
pecially when his age and state o.
health are considered.
Cochron and Hoppe have each won
three games in the tournament ahc
have not been defeated. Tomorrow
afternoon Cochran and 1amada VIII
play. and in the evening Hoppe ana
sutton will meet. On Tuesday after
Noon Yamada meets Sutton and in the
evening. in the final game Of the tour
nameut, Hoppe will oppose Cochran.
Cochran won the bank from Siosson
and started with run of nine. loI-
lowed by blank in the second innlng'
IN his third visit 20 the table, however
I the youth reeled off run OF Al
roints. nursing the worries with great
skill IN and out of balk, and bringing
his rim 10 a close when he fa'led to
get the object ball out of balk.
Slosson could not gain any control
over the sphere and Jagged hopeiessly
in the rear. In his sixth inning Coon
ran got the balls close together ana
clicked off his points with great rapid
ity, weaving in and out OF balk beauti-
fully. lie missed on simple bank
shot TO the side rail on his seventy
fourth effort through his anxiety to
play quickly.
In the next FIVE innings the eighteen
vear-old boy was able TO add only Il
points TO his total, but then came the
twelfth inning and his high run Of the
game. Gathering the balls together
with two splendid drives around the
table. the Iowa youth gave remark
able exhibition of nursing and position
play, carrying the spheres around the
table as he reeled off the points with
the ease of Hoppe.
With the balls in perfect position al
che head of the table TO continue the
run indefinitely. Cochran elected 70
, play without the use Of the bridge,
which would have made the shot GER
tainty. and sprawlod at his length over
the table as he made his eighty-ninth
stroke. In this strained position the
boy missed. the balls just failing 10
kiss, and he sat down 10 the accom-
uaniment Of great applause.
The balls had been widely separated
, by Slosson. and for the next TWO nm
, ings Cochran failed 20 make count,
. bringing down his average materially
J In the fifteenth. however, he wooed the
spheres with so cunning touch that
he soon had them fully under control
and completed his string with an un-
finished run Of 32 points.
sutton ulack balll-2. 10. Is. 2 10. o. !.
g. l5s. o. 5. II. ~ 2 !; 20. g. L. o. I" :
Grsnd total 800 points. Hish runs ljS ~ and -
~M$'; js q s'l3 i 81 8. 8 D. T. z
a. Total s23 points Handicap ~ points
Grand total. tss points. High runs. 49, 30 and 49,
Average u ll-2s
Cochran white hslD..s 0. q; J.. IS. 2 2;2
O. 10, s.. o. o. Total 600 h ars w..
sslo 80 BLACK b,lD--e. ?. u. I. 3. l. ?
TOTAL 1876 High runs %. a and Average
Refers.-G-orse Moore.