The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-30
Losing average

Losing average.
Before the start last Monday Of the
tournament for the national amateur
class y championship at 1s q balkline
in the Brooklyn Billiard Academy he
opinion was general that the title lay be-
tween Charles T. White OF Brooklyn and
n Of the Appleby brothers Of New
York. That forecast still holds good fol-
lowing a week OF play in which ten OF
the necessary twenty-one games were
decided. White is out In front with three
games won and none lost and Edgar T.
Appleby, the only other player with a
clean slate. has two victories to his
credit. Francis S. Appleby has won one
game and lost one. Each Of the four
other aspirants has been beaten at least
Of Brooklyn. has lost all three games he
has played.
George =. y. Clarke OF New York was
In the running with one victory and one
defeat until yesterday afternoon. when
George T. Moon, Jr., of Brooklyn downed
him in a well played game by a score OF
500 to 272. Moon. with the same num-
Der of defeats. now is ranked above
Clarke. since he has two victories to the
latter's one. Fred C.. Burnham OF Hart
ford has the same record as Clarke, win
two lost and one won.
, White Is a sort of paradox. Though
he stands at the top OF the list ne mas
the poorest grand average OF any man
in the tournament with the lone excep-
ton of Lowenthal. h stands last. IN
his three games-he beat Burnham. Moon
and Lowenthal-he required lSs innings
altogether for a mark OF > 55-los' fran
cis : Appleby has travelled at the fas'-
est clip. an average OF Zo-F ine
others, except Lowenthal. who has aver.
aged only 4 6-l73. rate above hve ana
below seven. Clarke comes next TO r. .
Applebv. with 6 6s-l26. Edgar T. APP
| p,eby has ) e5-l0l, Durham 5 S3-l4s
and Moon 8 12-ls3. To show how the
Ave plus men surpass White the hgures
may n. reduced to decimals. White
average expressed this way is 5.3so' T.
r. Appleby's Is 5.sii, Burnhsms IL
5.423 and Moons is 1913.
h secret of Whites success has been
his ability 10 score from dinicult posi-
tons and leave a hard problem ior MS
opponent on the occasions wnen ne uoes
miss. one thing noticed about burn'
! ham. Moon anu Lb"eiNi"'
games against White was a habit they
.ii had OF trying to get the balls TO-
pe,her almost always from his marc
leaves and thereby running the risk 0,
leaving White chanc for a run. lhu'
all of these men have made worse rec
ords against White than III tneir othel
games. Burnham averaged only 32-o'
against White. Moon : 3O-E anu Low
enthal 3 3S-51. In each case these p.ai.
s Nhan haI
ers did worse against White nan '"e''
grand average to date.
This is an unusually queer kinK whe'
IL is considered thai White generally u
not regarded as a safety player and doe
no, look upon himself as one. II Is ia
from a certainty. however. that the tai
R~rooklyn blond will win the
shin He still has three games TO PLAY
and they call for harder opponents tha'
those he has met yet. He must pia!
both the Applebys and 'larke' ~
match with clarke Is set Tor "euHeSu.'
afternoon. and the contests against VI
Young columbia Students Will De re
arvad for Friday and saturday. whr'
tho tourney will end. barring the possi
hlu,y Of ties. Wednesday Will be a mig
spo, in the road. for the Appleoy youth
come together that night. " VIII U
their first meeting in n ~tourha'neu
and much speculation has been near
over the outcome.
To-morrow's schedule calls Tor 'larh
against Lowcnthal in the afternoon an
purnham against Francis s. Appleby 9
r,yh,' Tuesday T.. 7. Appleby meet
Moon in the afternoon and his brothe
onnoses Lowenthal at night. The Thur'
day schedule will feature Burnhai
against Moon in the afternoon and 10"
enthal at night. go,
clarke offered Jus, sufficient bat'
against Moon yesterday to make IL u
ter.sting. He held the lead only for "A yer
, short time. Moon got away hrst WI
l "a from the break and kept in front III
, Ill the NTH inning. when 'larke ran ..
j Moon recovered the van in the TENN II
ming with "A bunch Of IL right AFTER
Ok which made the total then 30 10 =
in his favor. Clarke never caught VI
again. He always was within one GOO
< rim OF the leader. but the one good ri
was not forthcoming, for he did moi e.
coed II thereafter. lie made that mar
4 twice. Moons best runs were ~ :
: % and "a and his average b -+-4
g Clarke averaged 6 80. The score
George 7. Moon, Jr., Brookiyn-i3 IL J
k !, ! :; !: y; ;. ~ g. !, q. +, e. 5'',.iS.
h !. i,.o. . j. Q o o : d, 49, tn' run !,
e 81 George p B. clarke, New York-o,o,
Il 10 -. 3. il, "..'i, !. !. H., II; 10.
r !, /. l. l.. %. .; O. :. o. 3 {, 'i,,,
INNS 20. Il and -, Forfeited one poi
n In fifteenth inning for missing object pal
peferee-Dayid lauterDhch.
" Firmin Cassignol and Welker Cochri
nl,,ed fascinating is . balkline billiar
a, Maurice Days last week. Cochr;
y surprised spectators. He averaged
Wednesday night and ran $50 the ne
night. but did not win in either instanC
!, The French expert appears to have III