The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-29
YOUNGER APPLEBY
is BILLIARD WINNER
Defeats Edgar i'm Glass
A Tourney by Score Of
400 to 26g.
LEADS EARLY IN GAME

Francis :. Appleby got away 10 an
auspicious star, In the national amateur
Class \ IS:2 halklino championship
tournament n" averaging nearly ten
against his brother. Edgar r. Applebv.
In the opening game Of the competition
II the Ar.on Society las, night. He won
by a score of 400 10 26y. completing
his string in forty-three innings for an
average Of : lS-i2.
TIL younger OF tho two Columbia
[ University students, who are making
their first appearance in Glass \,
played all aroun billiards Of the most
entertaining variety, exhibiting balance
IL his work such az 1t expected only
of a veteran. HIS elder brother seemed
nervous. perhaps because of overanxi-
ETY. TO aVence the defeat suffered in the
intrafalnily contest of the recent Glass
/ joust. He lacked confidence on draw
shots. resulting In an overappl.cation
OF force that spoiled good opportunities
10 obtain ur retain desirable positions.
TIE attendance of go represented
quality a. well as quantity. with half a
hundred Of the fair sex spr,nkled about
here and there. The masse shots II the
more youthful Applcby seemed to appeal
most TO the women, one Of whom en-
claimed audibly Wonderful :" after a
brilliant bit Of execution.
Among those who saw the game were
Mr.. and Mrs. edward VI. B%urghardt.
Mr.. and Mrs. u. Schwartz. Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Schaeier. Mr.. aud Mrs Louis
Reusche and Miss Neuschc. Mr. and
Mrs. George !. Balferi.. Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles F'osshuider. Mr.. and Mrs, Carl
kathemacher, Mr.. n Mrs. Henry Mes
niger. Miss A. Mitzel. Robert Clarkson.
Col, De Ferra, Commodore John y. Win
dolph. Maurice DAILY. Thomas Gala
CHER, George T. Moon. Jr. Gus,ave 4
Rudolphy, DR., n. II. Jennings. Charles
II. Nahmmacher. Wayne Root. A. J..
Adams. Louis Servatius, Tim Flynn. AL
fredo De ooro, Herman Schroeter. Wes-
ley H.. Bunce and Joseph johann
Louis Reusche, president of the Ma
tional Association OF Amateur Billiard
Players. made a brief address In which
he declared the purposes Of the tourna-
nent and OF the big silver trophy which
he exhibited. After he had named the
seven OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES W. Gardner,
j. Ferdinand P~oggenburg, Edgar r. and
Francis Appleby, all of New York
Morris n. Brown OF Brooklyn. Charles
Heddon Of powagiac, Mich, and Julius
klinger OF Austria, all of whom were
present-he expressed appreciation OF
their entering and then declared the
fifteenth annual tournament under way.
Edgar Appleby won the bank, made
the opening shot and missed. Francis
failed to count and Ed ar responded
with sixteen. Francis made fourteen,
Edgar missed and then in the third III
Francis ran four, taking the lead.
which he never re,inquish"d. A stretch
Of rapid playing. during which he made
los points in six innings. gave him a
commanding lead. He was IS points
ahead of Edgar at the close of the
eleventh session. with the totals l26
"a 81. During the next nine turns the
elder brother battled gamely uphill and
cut the margin to 81 In the twentieth,
with the count 1s6 to 1872.
From then on II was mainly a cues
ton of how hish the winners average
would be. As a golfer sometimes plays
against par, so he battlcd against an
average Of 10. lie had the upper hand
many times, After the thirty-sixth In.
ming he tied his hypothetical foe with
"A total Of $50, 1t looked as II he surely
would win up the game In the next four
innings, but it took him seven turns and
he missed the ten mark.
The loser gave perhaps the most
artistic display of the night for any
brief spell in his run OF % in the nine
teenth inning. He negotiated six diff
cult shots in a row before he 20, the
balls under control two unfortunate
kisses, one lineup and a freeze folliny
his efforts. When he finally had them
he kept the three balls at the meating
point of the balklinc and the enc raj,
for "A stretch OF - points. In this period
his cue ball dia not travel more than an
inch and a MALT on any shot. Eventually
u short masse failed and his one best
~o,'ning was gone, for he had almost "A
chuck nurse position AZ the time.
This afternoon Morris u. Brow meets