The sun., 1919-10-24

Schaefer in his game Of Wednesday with
Yamada had almost entirely disap-
pearsd when he faced the table yester-
day morning for his TIT with George
Slosson, once a worthy rival OF young
Schaefer's father. Although the young
ster defeated the veteran. In doing so
he did not cover himself with glory. It
was a long drawn out affair. lacking all
the sensational incidents that marked
Schaefer's performance of the previous
day.
Slosson took the lead early In the
game. a run Of rs on his sixth time at
the table, seeming to arouse the young
ster. This big cluster. the best single
effort Slosson accomplished during the
match, was replete with cushion car
oms. For practically the entire run he
kept the globes rolling widely. On the
sixty-seventh count he got q lucky kisA
the red sending the cue ball to the SEQ
ond object ball for the count
Schaefer came to lie in the tenth IN
ming. He coaxed the balls together for q
bit Of nursing and balk line manoeu-
wiring. His play was unsteady. as on two
occasions he appeared to lose control.
Each time he managed to again lure the
balls until he had tailed 101. Then he
stumbled on q short draw that indi-
Gated that ne was not concentrating
upon his work.
The run put Schaefer In the lead.
Thereafter he plodded along most in
differently 30 that the match strung It.
self out to two hours and forty minutes
at the table. Except for the top run
Slosson's cue work was moro interesting
and of better billiards than his young
opponent.
Easy for MorningstaE
Ora Morningstars rather easy vtc-
tory over Sutton in the first game OF
the afternoon indicated that Sutton was
handicapped by the strain Of two games
the preceding day. and a. he In suffering
from q nervous affection Of the muscles
of his back. the veteran was unable to
display the full strength OF the really
fine play Of which he Is capable. Neither
Morningstar nor Sutton were able to
get the balls under proper control with
the result that the game was more like
three cushions than balk line.
In the opening inning tho San Diegs
player counted 20 by nursing before he
missed on a difficult cross table carom
At no other period for fifteen inning,
did he have them 80 closely punched
again.
Morningstar's fourth inning, while 4
| produced only 81, was remarkable 70,
the number Of difficult draw shots. tn,
| greater part of the cluster was collected
| along the short rail at the foot of tn,
| table. As the worries began to spreat
hn tried to collect them once using
draw Of three feet and then a draw
that swung the cue ball around tn
corner for three cushions. As q finisl
! he missed fairly easy cushion oaron
on which he had miscalculated tn
angle.
Morningstar lost his stroke and con
troll of the worries In the Sth session
the balls scattering all over the table
He finally recovered from the SLUMP
turning into his final hundred with
run Of 73 in his fifteenth inning
Throughout this run he kept the ball
together under hat He held Their
for a time by wonderful masse work
At the finish the orbs separated agai
and the final count was q seven cushlo
drive of the cue ball twice around tn
table. On the next long cushion she
the cue ball found the hole around tn
second object ball and Morningstar re
tired. He had the match practioall
rwon at the end of this run. following
with 81 that gave him the victory
400 points to ISL.
Sutton made a desperate effort to &C
into bis stride. He played with orthodo
correctness and was perfect in all n
spects except execution
Aside from setting q new high ru
record for the tourney Of 165, Cochra
did little but weary the spectators wit
ineffective play. In his eighth sessio
Cochran temporarily got control Of tn
worries and by a mastery exhibition Q
balk line skill collected i65 buttons be
fore the balls froze and he missed fror
the spot
He seemed to lose his stroke after tbs
and got only four points in the next tw
frames. However. he pulled himself tc
gether for the eleventh session an
rolled up a nice cluster of 101 befor
J he stopped on a three cushion efror
J Thereafter Cochran played like an ans
teur and It took him thirty innings I
J gather his 400 points