The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-27
Downs Moon in Hot
Game, 800 to 275-Latter
Outplays Clarke.
HARTFORD MAN RUNS SO
Losing average.

Charles e white took the lead in the
| national amateur class B is2 bslkline
tournament at the Brooklyn Billiard
Academy by defeating George 7. Moon.
Jr.. last night in a holly contested game
by "A score OF 500 to 275. The result
rave White two victories to no defeats
and also put Moon In last place with
the same figures reversed.
II was a contest of suspended inter-
est. with the tide of battle shifting first
one way, then the other. White was the
consistent one OF the pair. In no stretch
Of ten innings did he average above Z or
below s. and his average for the match
was exactly 6. Moon was unsteady but
brilliant. For the first seventeen in
nings ne wen at beyond a 10 clip, gain
ing a total VI l72 points in that time.
Then he subsidized and didn't make an
other run OF double figures until nine
teen ming later. when he got 10.
Moon got a lead Of l12 to 10 while
he was in the heat of his opening rush.
When he slumped White kept on plug
ging and finally o~verhauled him in the
thirty-frst session. with the tally 1877 to
1893. He increased the lead until Moon
was behind. PSI 10 ?32. and White
seemed AN easy victor. At this point
Moon developed the best run of the
HbtN Ft R'l ' UoiI's d1u t'ih''
likely to make the remaining q needed.
but slipped up on a slow spread draw
shot with the balls In perfect position on
the end balkline. Then White got 3.
Moon got none. White got none. Moon
made 2 and White ran out with l6.
The score:
g f White. Brookiyn-i. : q. H. Il. :.
.. 3. :. 49,. 3. :, 10. as. o, 10. 8, :. H.
81. :. 5. l.. 0. ., o. :. 0. as. o. I, >. o. IS.
Totai, 400. Average. 8 Hish runs %. -
q T. Moon. Jr, Brooklyn-5. :. II. Il: Is,
), o, ?e. is. 0. 0. -. II. 20. o, :, q. 0, l.
), I. &. o. !. l.. o. o. o. .. 0, .. 3. :. /. 0. 10.
e. l. =; - o.:ie . 3 q. 90: To's'
% and %. R~eferee-Jcseph A. Dalton.
Fred G. Burnham. the Hartford man
who was beaten badly by White on Mon
day might. redeemed his poor inaugural
showing by a fne exhibition OF delicate
billiards against George y. y. Clarke
Of New York yesterday afternoon. II
was Clarke's first game Of the tourna-
ment and he played a ceditable uphill
game, making an average OF 6l2-+o,
but losing by a score of 300 to ?52 10
Burpham. who averaged 2O-io.
Burnham's game was full OF good
sized runs. HIS best cluster was SO and
he made others OF IS. 81. 80. Is and 20.
For a class Is man his work was OF "a
high order. He had the knack Of land
ing lightly on III. second object ball.
seen SO seldom outside Of the profess
sional ranks. n went at his task with
the confidence OF a champion. using vol
uines OF English At times to control the
cOurse OF the driven sphere.
Clarke made n SLOW start and did not
look az all formidable untl the twenty
ninth ming In the next eleven turns
he punched %, II. i3, q. 20. ~ and
10. which made the tnal score look like
that ~ a real game instead oc a rout.
The score:
George Z u Clarke. New York-o. ..
! :, q, Q, 4 :. 20. >. !. .. o. 5. %. IT, ~,
o. ,, -, -, !, a. ~ |, 10. Total. 49,
Average, c 1890. High runs. 90, 80, -
and &c.
Fred 9 Rurnhanr, Hartford-l. , !. y.
Q, 1, q, o, ., 80. 20, 81, :. !. 3. >. ,, O. n
.. J.. :. 10. 3. 2. 3, . 0. Q. :. ., 5. o :
6, !, IS. 3, &, +, Total. 400 Average.
: 2o-to. High runs, 50, IS. o. and 80.
This afternoon Fred Lowenthal will
play George T. b Clarke and tonight
George T.. Moon, Jr.. meets Francis :.
ADplpby.