The sun., 1919-10-23

with Cochran. Morningstar also In
creased his average from 21 1-1s to
so 1918. Slosson boosted his high run
to 95 and his average from 10 17-22
to 18 1912.
Morningstar played indifferentfy in
the early innings. but In the sixth frame
he managed to collect the worries on the
short ran by q series of spirited cushion
shots, chiefly remarkable because of his
use Of English. Once he had corralled
the globes he soon had them in nursing
position. His touch softened 30 that he
had the clue ball fiickering across the
faces Of the white and red object balls
for points. There was an occasional
brief excursion to the cushion in order
to hold position. Several times he made
use of the masse and achieved . run OF
127 that distanced .Slosson. who was al
ways trailing after that
Three innings later Morningstar again
gathered the speroids In fairly compact
formation when he miscalculated cush-
lon shot, SO that the cluster terminated
at 81.
In the following inning. however. after
a brief run of 10 by Slosson tho In
diana player started his big cluster Of
14s that tied Hoppe for the high run
honors. This run was more varied than
lI8 pTcucCccsOT. ~ WdS uho " aCAASheo
cue manipulation, as at all stages Morn
hgstar made profitable use of the lines
and the short rails. His draw shots
were perfect and his general play sd-
mirable.
schaefer's Great Play.
Jacob Schaefer in beating Kohl va
mada and running his 400 points In
five inings for an average Of so. thereby
setting q new high run mark for tbs
tourney Of 155, furnished proof In the
afternoon that he is entitled to the
sobriquet wizard" 30 well earned by
his father The performance OF the
younger Schaefer was one Of the mos;
sensational IN the history Of balklins
competition. The Chicagoan played q
game that would have challenged the
respectful interest of even the renowned
Hoppe.
The spectators gave the youngstei
unstinted applause as he clicked or the
points with q precision and skin thai
could hardly be excelled.
Schaefer started of In q busnesslike
way his FIRST time at the table and col
lected 81 by a brilliant combination oi
close nurse and open play. SchaefeI
won the LAnk and began scoring from
the start Yamada missed his frs'
three innings and this enabled Schaefer
to keep right at his task Of making a
big average and In his second inning the
Illinois youth gave a remarkable bril-.
liant exhibition OF scientific Billiards
He played daring around the table shots
drew the worries with his magic cue In
all directions. nursed the balls at clost
quarters and drove for position witt
unerring judgment as 70 the force re-
quired.
Gathers Points Rapidly.
Schaefer was gathering points q
rapidly when he turned the ono hundred
mark It seemed likely he would sclips,
Sutton's average Of 100, but after rolling
UP 156 points the youngster fell dowi
on two cushion shot by hair. II
his third time at the table Schaefel
stopped on a draw after making 6.
| When the youngster took the tabl,
for his fourth inning he needed Is,
points to enable him to run out In fou
innings and thus equal the>Sutton aver
age. He got away to a good start AM
soon had the ivories rolling as he de
sired. With increasing sureness o
stroke and complete mastery Of tn
globes he reached 100 and then set sal
for his goal Of &c more. He got as IA
as 1S7 when he counted from spo'
On his ono hundred and forty-ninth at
tempt. a long cushion shot he misse
by q hair. and sat down. 8 points ava
from his goal. Tho applause was deaf
ening.
Yamada took advantage OF the OF
Iportunity to make his only run Of tn
game. a nns cluster OF 80. and the
Schaefsr gathered 8 points In hurry.