The Washington herald., 1916-11-19


One is welker Cochran and the other
Jake Schaefer, both OF Chicago. Coch-
ran Is wonderful player. capable of
big runs and high averages, which he
puts up regularly In his exhibitions In
the windy city. but Schaefer's pros
poets really seem better.
This is explained by the fact that
Jake is now doing just what Hoppe
did to make him the great player he
Is. When a mere boy Willie toured the
country and also went to France as a
Schaefer when the latter was cham
pion. and what he learned from the
late wizard" eventually put him at
the head of his profession. Now young
Jake. who has inherited all his faith
er's wondrous skill with the cue and
who is really a better player at %
than his daddy was at the same age.
is travelling with Hoppe and grasping
everything he can from Willie's game.
1t goes without saying that Jake will
beat Hoppe in some Of their exhibi-
confidence and aid him greatly should
they hook up in championship play
within the next two or three years.
Cochran has but one fault and that
bad one. His temper gets the better
of him when the balls break unkindly.
and like any other man that ever hit
an ivory ball. he cannot play good bill
ards and fight himself" But We'll
ker has learned that to succeed he
must practice self-control. and his
friends say that he is gaining cool
work of late. As for style. stroke,
execution, and a keen knowledge of
the game Cochran Is a wonder for his
age and probably destined to wear
champions crown some day.
\ meeting will be held at Jack Cas-
wells Northeast alleys this morning at
1870 o'clock. when application for fran
chises in the reorganized Northeast
League will be entertained. The league
resumed play last Wednesday night with
six auints in the circuit and II there are
any others admitted at this mornings
meeting it is planned to drop them In
starting with tomorrow night. Caswell
has extended an invitation to any team
in the city that desires a berth in the
league to have a representative present
at the meeting.
Koji Yamada. the japanese balk liner.
and Ora Morningstar. q former cham
plon, are playing fast billiards before
big houses in their exhibition tour
through the West. Yamada averaged
50 and had a high run OF III in one game
while he averaged nearly 40 in two 9TH
ers. Morningstar has averaged nearly
40 In several games and has made many
substantial runs of three figures.
Local maiagers of alleys are not the
only ones who are experiencing difficulty
in trying to solve the pin boy problem
Word now comes from New York that
the scarcity of pin settlers is hurting the
game in the Big Town. And not only in
New York and Washington Is IL hard
to get competent spoilers, but the same
prevails throughout the Middle
West.
1t will, no doubt, be OF interest to local
billiard and pocket billiard players to
learn that the Imperial Billiard Room at
1903 G street northwest will on wednes-
day next celebate the sixth anniversary
Of its existence.
The new owners have spared no ex-
pense in their efforts to make the room
attractive and popular and in order to
provide a treat for its patrons and the
public generally. a match game of 100
points is in process of arrangement be-
tween two well-known pocket billiard
experts. namely, Mr.. Charles Bartelmes
and Mr.. Carroll Wallace. An appropriate
incentive has been offered and it Is con-
tidently believed that the match will be
pulled of.
There has been some talk Of getting to-
gether an all-star team and challenging
the Royals to a fifteen-game match, five
games to be shot at Sherman's, FIVE on
the Grand Central drives, and five on
some other alleys in the event of the
match being arranged.
While NAV he nOsSihIa 70 ro,Io.
quint that can throw the hooks into the
Royal aggregation in a fifteen-game
series, the betting on a match of this
kind would perhaps carry short odds, with
the Royal bunch on the long end There
is no denying the fact that as a team
this stellar quint is one of the best, II
rot the best. in the National Capital, and
it is doubtful whether there Is another
club in the country that can take the
measure of the Washingtonians in a If
teen or more game set. shooting the
style OF ducks in vogue here
One Of the noticeable features of the
pinning of the Royals is that II one MEM
Der of the team is off color, one or more
of the others are there with a game or set
that will more than offset the falling
down of this one man. And so 1t gen.
orally happens when two OF them are
going bad. With Earl Lewis, Eddie
Howser. Harry Stanford. Bernie Carroll,
Harry HALEY and Harry Krauss, on
the roster any combination Of five from
these six men present a quint that is
good for more than 1.6oo pins to the set,
and any team that can pack around pin-
ming ability of that kind can come pretty
near walloping anything In the way OF
an all-star team that can be corralled
from local ranks.
Looking back over the set totals of
the bevy OF pin toppers, shows that in
the District League they have cut loose
sets of 1,ss2, 1,59o 1,677 1884, 1854 and 1,s47,
not including their set Of 1,5so during the
past week. In the National Capital cir
cult they have turned in sets of LOO.
l.sIs. 1858, LIS, 1.64s, 1.sss and 1,so2. For
the forty-two games this would give
them an average of $50, which in our
meager way of reasoning. is some shoot
lEg. When the breaks of the game are
going against them, they are the hard
est team in the city to beat, as can be
seen from the fact that in only one game
this season have they dropped below 500. |
a $50 game against the Columbians being
the only time they nave fallen from
grace. They backed this game up with
counts Of 81 and 81, giving them a total
of 159S for the set
II our hard-earned weekly wage was
going up on a match between the Royals |