The New York herald., 1920-12-07
Hoppe Has a Close Call
With Cochran at Billiards
In His First Game of 1872 Bak Line Tourney He Wins
by Thirty PoiAts-Cochran Defeats
Schaefer

timely foul on the red ball ended the
caromic festival jus. when all was going
well.
'Out of anchor. out and in balk % was
the compound call of the referee on the
eighteenth shot of Cochran's reciprocal
inning. Schaefer's miss left the balls all
set up for Cochran, who played them
close and fast. He warmed up quickly.
The table was fast and the balls a bit
heavy. Cochran was in the thick of q
line nurse when he clicked into his second
fifty of the plethoric opening run, and
he played with right nice touch. The OBJ
ject balls were kept near to each other
and 1t was the seventy-second shot be-
fore he had bothersome drive to make.
He ran SS and missed a spread draw off
the head rail.
The speed Of the table was a bother to
Schaefer. 1t upset his plans and he did
lot of hanmering. Cochran had 119
for three innings TO Young Jake's AZ, and
the latter with adverse breaks was faring
poorly with scattered ivory. He ex-
perienced long, lean period after his
opening inning, and had the utmost diff
ficulty adjusting himself to the fast
table. Cochran, in spite of uneven and
Indifferent work, which included missed
masses in two successive innings. was
able to keep lead of over 100
Schaefer did better In his eighth inn
ing. He ran SO. The wide, searching
Billiards he had been paying gave way
to real balkline. and. with getting ac-
customed to conditions OF force and
table pace. more delicacy. Yet the run
gave Schaefer's prospect only q tenn
porary boost, for his miss left the balls
In position for Cochran to grab them
by their shining eXter'ors and make
them behave. He stepped into them
brislSly. and by the various processes Of
deploying, cajo'ing and compelling them
traced rich and comely fligree of 81
billiards In the transverse reg on OF the
head table balk spaces. He sat down
with 252 points tc Schaefer's III. He
was playing in fits and starts. Schaefer
followed his 50 with A. so his eighth
and ninth innings were a big improve
ment. but even then a besetting sin of
his was landing inaccurately on the
second object ball.
Likewise did Cochran supplement
luxuriant eighth inn ng with, nourish-
Ing ninth He culled 81 points, many
at close play along the lower rail-. and
took his chair with a grand total Of
303. This was one of two occasions
on which he was guilty of not getting
the balls out OF balk. But as he had
300 points to Schaefer's 155 he didn't
grieve.
SCnae1er shOWeu grit, as MS rather
before him was wont to do. He had
successive harvests Of SO, ~ and %.
The last named was the deftest Of the
lot. He did not have to plod and travel
80 much for his ivory Increment. In
fact the 92 run was far and away the
smoothest and closest Billiards he had
played. II went with alluring rhythm
and gentle swing Not bad. 1875 points
In three consecutive innings.
Schaefer cut into Cochran's lead a
lot In the last hundred and would have
cut still further II two freezes hadn't
stopped him. He missed both. spotting
the balls once and trying a bank ON the
other He seemed to think q masse too
hard moreover, he was playing all the
safety he could.
Playing the second shot Of his nine
teenth inning Schaefer missed three
cushion shot around the table--mssed
Il as planned but counted at the other
end Of the table after the red ball had
kissed the white that far away from It's
original habitat. II was a scratch which
left nothing. but Schaefer left them up
when he missed. II was a fatal miss.
Cochran ran the game out from that
point. The score:
AFTERNOON GAME.
Cochran--ss, 1. 80, o. 80. 10. I. 81. 81. 3.
rs. 10, !. O. o. 0. 10. 0. %. Total-i0O Aver
agc-2t f1-iA High ruiie-SS. ~ ~
Schaefer--2s. 8, o. 4. o, 4, ., 30. -. o2. I,
32. 2, 30. .. 2, Q. z Total133s' Average
Referee--Charles Peterson.
EDWARDS ELECTED CAPTAIN.
CLEVELAND. Dec. 6.-w. w. Edwards