Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-20
Cup OF COFFEE AND PIE
HELPED CANNEFAX WIN
Youngsters Nervousness in Cushion
Billiard Championship Match Dis
.ss--t. pcllcd by His Little Lunch.
sDETEATED DE ORC, 100 TO III
Played With Cut Finger, and Could
Not Have Taken Match Had Not
lie Conc Into Grill Room for
IS Change of Scenery and Food.
ny JAMES ,. CoHBi:rr.

ny JAMES ,. COHBETT.
- Here is the story OF youuEster Of
Etwcnty- eight who Won the three cush-
sion billiard championship OF the world
Yatdcd most matcvially." rs he says
S.,by cup OF coffee and piece OF pie
81 Some months ago Sob CanuefaX, who
halls from Springfield. Mo. but now
2makcs his homo in New York, chal-
slenrcd Alfred De ORC. ;hcn Ming Of
thc three cushion pill!arlis;s De ORC
sacccptcd and the 100 poin; match,
(which attracted nation wide attention.
WAS staged in the Monastery OF the
s,Friars' Club. New York.
- CannefaX won the irSt nights play.
80 to As. after contest tina; ranks
without equal in Thrills, Through the
slaSt thirty innings the men fought nip
and tuck First one and Inen the other
forged to the front but 1T WAS not
until the last Shot had been made that
ECsnucfaX WAS victor OF ;itc first block.
The youthful phenom won the second
Block by the score Of 90 to SO. II
Booked like a wRlkaway for him when
lie went into the third nights play
with the score lo0 to - in his favor
1sut DE ORC. veteran OF more thrilling
billiard matches than any other player
in the world, ranks as the greatest
iinisher in tho business, tho man who
1NeNcr quits.
CnnncfnN Had III Luck.
Fortune favored DE ORC as the game
fore CannciaX accidentally cut the in
GcN finger on his left hand. II was
tagged wound and at the point just
below the Nuuclllc. exactly the spot
Nherc the cue slides back ana forth.
canncfaN did not dare to wrap ii up
and had to play with an open wound.
From the beginning OF play. Came
fax WAS of his game. and the vet
cram. playing steadily and surely. grad
TALLY began TO cut down the young
ster's lead. Every new shot that Can
missed hctHllSr a inAhiiity 4,
control his muscles. duo TO the cut on
his hand. made him just a little more
closely decided that CanucfaX had
blown. 1T expected TO see him 40
all TO pieces and see Dc orc overhaul
him and beat him TO the Hotpoint
goal.
Canncfax missed one easy shot. ana
then another. Immediately aftcrward,
to the surprise OF tho crowd. Canncfax
walked out OF the room and went down
the stairs. Five minutes pasScd=and
no CanncfaN appeared. Then minutes.
and CannefaN WAS still absent. De ORC
WAS frettinS and tuning: the crowd
impatient vas waGginS It's head and
the majority was saying or thinking:
Thought lounE>tcr Had Quit.
"CannefaN has taken a run-out pow
Then il Vas decided 10 send scout
ing expedition in search o; Canncfax
The sieuths reported back in about
"Cannsfax is down in The sriuroon,
drinking coffee ana eating pie"
\ i.,,ie while later cannetax non.
chaiantly walked back into the room.
picked 10 las cue and sail. eheerily nd
without t-ece OF nervousness in voice
o. actions:
whose shot is IT,
The match vas resumed ana from
youthful! Cau1s!zN i'ia slLc 50 far be.
2ond his form earlier ir ,he evening
Is 10 make hin seem Ike an cc:ireIy
different :-a!.r gau.e:4x raced far
anead ot ~ great rival 01@ n-5i,isn,
shCI after acott - Increased his lead
Sud LIZ a-uzr-rS rally after the bob
tlins game - tae cots=, unsettled ;ae
I1tz? .: lie org.
tssc.' int ~ pN-. cauleEzI aiming.
80 - - taxing -a.-- tre 49, t-q--
INC nan whP Rad zh.-a ni- g: =;
Change Of >eenes, Helped-
eEsase e zcslsrg srl ..-,ls
of uer' e. sd Gaane:aI at:e-FArd
Ee!!T ~ mE career a..Li--L.z- I
tried 20 ;.gr. or -cr. gLzrsss ~ So T.
:ng r.shi .H nc room Or nlzy 8G.
a little food OF ON l.e "a, t.aa,s the
thing. -
missing shots TINS; ordinarily should
have been easy decided - yac4-e
the room for wh.le
After resumed play tn. finger still
hurt when pushed my cue against II.
but somehow or other. with tito control
ot my nerves restored. didn't mind
u very much. hud so ! went right
out and shot myself back into the
cEamnlonShlp. because ! bad the help
1Hl3, hy r. ing Feature Syudir;it. Ir.