New Britain herald., 1919-12-05
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WORLD'S CUE MARK
 BEI1ERED BY ALLEN
Kansas Expert Gets High Run Of
 81 in Philadelphia Tourney

Philadelphia, Dec. 5.--Like d cy- clone Bonnie Allen, the Kansas City pocket billiard vcteran rushed through his game with Edgar 1. Ralph, the former Hightstown, N. J., barber, in the national tournament hero last night, and hung up the marvellous worlds record of S1 con- Secutivc balls.
 Allen outclassed his Jersey rival so far that he completed his string Of 125 while Ralph was making 6.
 At the start of the present tourna- ment the old worlds record was 71, made by Allen at Kansas City in 1914. Ralph Greenleaf, the Wilmington, Del, youth, esta hliShed a, new record under the new form of rules in his opening match on Monday night when he poclletod G6 straight. On Wednesday, afternoon Charles See back. the Hartford, Conn.,, star, sank 6S without q miss, but last night against Ralph Allen ran S1 before the former could post s single ball.
 Allen was greeted with dcafening applause when he finished his long run and tho first person to congratu- late him at the end of the match was Jerome Keogh, the Rochester veteran.
 
 ment Allen has won two and lost one
 Aliens S1 is the highest run ever made in any championship tourna- ment under any rules. Alfred De Orc made a run of 70 in d match game at Tampa Fla, in 1914, and March 15, 1918, Ralph Greenleaf had an unf1n- ished run of 137 in an exhibition game in Camden N. J.
 In making his 125 balls in five in nings Allen also established a pew worlds speed record. It required but eighty minutes to finish the game.
 Ralph Greenleaf of Wilmington, Del, who is looked upon as one of the sure fnaIists, won the final night match from Charles Seebacl>, of Hart ford, by the score of 125 to 61.
 Greenleaf led fl om the start, a high run of 42 in the second inning putting his away with a dash. Sec back, who had a worlds high run of 6S in Wednesdays play, could not get started and missed a number of easy shots. He had three runs of 16.
 1Arcuter Scores Victory.
 After losing three consecutive games Louis D. Kreuter, the twenty year-old New Yorker, staged a sensa- tional comeback late yesterday after noon when he beat James Mature of Colorado Springs, Col, a former na- tiona1 titleholder, by a score of 125 to 100.
 In the longest game of the tourna- ment-thirty- innings-John M. Layton of Columbia, Mo-, gained his third straight, conquest when he beat Morris D. Fink of Philadelphia in the opening afternoon match, 125 to 121.
 For three hours and a quarter the Westerner, who conducts a billiard academy in conjunction with the University of Missouri, and his east ern rival engaged in a battle Of cue wits. They both fell down on easy shots and used up most of the after noon in safety plays
 Fink surprised his opponent in, the carly innings He was not expected 10 give the former national champion much of a argument, as he lost two out of his first three matches. Fink long shots and clever safety play kept him in the running.
 With Layton leading 125 to 121 at the end of the thirty-fourth inning, Fink who had just finished a, run of 15 tried a side break shot. It failed and also spread the worries and Lay ton went in and ran his necessary six. Fink boosted his high run mark to 24. Layton had 29.