New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-07
BROWN PILES UP
HIGH AVERAGE
AT BALKLINE
Former Champion Beats
10 Mark in Defeating
Jacob Ringer.

Morris b. Brown, Of the Hamilton
Club, Brooklyn, defeated Jacob Klinger,
Glass B champion of Europe, by score
of 400 TO 29S points in the afternoon
game yesterday at the Arion Billiard
Club, where the Class A amateurs are
competing in the national champion
ship tournament at 1872 balkline Dill
lizards. In winning Brown set new
high average for the tourney, going out
in twenty-nine innings, for an average
of 10 1929. Ringers average was
101s-2S.
Klinger, who has yet to win game
in the competition for the national
title, was unfortunate in finding Brown
nearly at his best yesterday. Ordi-
narily an average as high as that made
by the European champion against
Brown would have won for him. Klinger
played clever billiards, some of his
nursing in the free space being I'M
usually brilliant.
But il was not until the eighth inn
ing. when Klinger led by 90 points to
35. that the Hamilton Club star got the
spheres fully under control. Taking the
balls 10 the top of the table. Brown mad
soon put together a cluster OF 81 car
rOms. with very little nursing 10 assist
him. Beginning with the tenth frame,
the former champion added 224 points
70 his total in the next nine innings, an
average Of just under 20. The runs
during this period were 2l, IS, 81, 80,
80. 27, %, and "a. remarkable show
ing for any amateur.
Most Of these points were made a.
the top and the foot of the table, with
the red ball being driven in and out OF
balk with the precision of machine.
Brown plays the game purely FOR the
love of il, and his sense of sportsman
ship is always in evidence. In the tenth
inning, on his twenty-second shot. he
fouled ever so slightly by touching the
cue ball with his cue as he was about
TO make his stroke. The touch was so
slight that Leonard Howison. the ref
cree. did not notice IT. nor did any OF
the spectators.
The balls were in a favorable posi-
ton for long run, but Brown in
stantly stopped playing and informed
Howison of the foul. When the crowd
realized why Brown had stopped play
ing there was an Outburst of applause.
Khnger had been going steadily
ahead in the meantime, getting double
figures in a majority Of his turns at
the table, but against the pace Brown
was setting he was hopeless and
dropped further and further to the
rear II Is worthy Of mention that
Brown scored only four misses IN MS
twenty-nine visits to the table, and
three Of these failures 10 score were IN
the first six innings, before he had
started 10 work in earnest. khnger
was also unusually steady, only failing
I l. g. 81 -, ms
In the last six innings Of the game
| the strain began TO have its effect on
| Brown. and his average, which had
been Just under Is up to the twenty
third frame. began TO suffer. Taken as
a whole. however, his exhibition yes
terdav was ono of the best seen IN a
/ Glass 4 tournament in years, and
means that this player must still be
reckoned with in picking the winner
/ Of the title.
The summary Of the afternoon game
/ follows:
Brown t.ps. t,u).--c 3 =. ! a. 3 u a. l.
a. IS g. 80 o. e. T 20 F. 90 q: points nj .5sr. &c.
| Is q % hlsh runs 81. 81 snd 30.
hluger white bsi-oe ~ 10 o. ". = =, ~
Q. Is. J. Total 2os points average. 10 lo-4s. high
/ rms %. 80 and %
Referec-lnonard Iiowison.
In the evening game Francis Appleby
the Youngest player in the tournament
defeated j. Ferdinand Poggenburg, a
/ former champion, by a score Of 400 TO
894 points. in forty-eight innings. This
was one of the most exciting games OF
tho tourney. In the forty-seventh inn
ing Appleby left an easy set-up for
! Poggepburg. who only needed SIX
points. but the veteran was more ner,
VOWS than his youthful opponent and
missed on his next try. Appleby then
ran out the game with ono carrom.
The summary Of the evening game
| follows:
Aop,eby tspot bauD-o L. 0. :. 9. =. J. !. g
/ l. o. J. = u. D.. y. 0. o. ~ ", T., a