The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-08
HOPPE IS VICTOR
OVER SCHAEFER
Champion Scores 400 While
Son of Wizard Gamers 176
at Balkline.
wILLIE's HIGH RUN 40
Schaefer Beats Cochran in At
ternoon Game, Rolling Up
172 in Sixth Inning.
BY WILLIAM ID. HANNA.

By WILLIAM ID. HANNA.
Willie Hoppe. billiard champion. now
has a clear lead In the 1872 balk line
championship tournament at the Hotel
Astor. He defeated Jake Schaefer. 400
TO It's. last night and has two victories
and no defeats. Schaefer and Welker
Cochran have each won one game and
lost two. Hoppe averaged % STA last
night, the best so far or the tournament
His best run. 17s. was more than Schae-
fer's total The players are having trou-
BILE with the balls. which on two occa-
sions have cracked under the strain.
Each time it was the cue ball.
Hoppe was having a monopoly. The
dapper form of his third inning was
difficult to regain. but Schaefer's short
stays at the table kept Hoppe there most
of the time, and he was enjoying double
figure returns. Adjacent and auxiliary
to the run of 179 were others Of 80 and
81. The latter ended with a missed short
draw because Of trying for a fine edge
Schaefer was encounttring obdurate
ivory. and In the fifth inning the referee
called a halt
Change OF Balls.
THE balls will have to be changed"
he announced. There's an absolute
crack In Mr.. Schaefer's ball" Schaefer
followed the change of balls with innings
OF / and 0. Hoppe about that time had
two zeros He also had 2S3 points to
Schaefer's So Jake, however. was ON
the map. He had an attractive seventh
inning, sparkling and bedecked with
ton was two cushion bank into a cor
ner and which didn't kill position. Jake
was much surer of himself In this inning
than he had been and did a lot of pay
ore flicking with the three balls closely
grouped. The small territory he COW
cred besrote the technical merit Of the
run. w the voice of the referee
droned - hundred" the fans broke
out with vociferous applause. One NOR,
point then he missed one cushion shot.
The sequence was 101 in length and
made Schaefer's total Isl. Hoppe had
2s3 to show for that Isl.
Hoppe turned his art upon the sensi-
tive bulbs in the ninth inning and did
fairly thriving business. The balls
weren't as yielding as previously and
the attendant run of SO was not the
soft. sure billiards of preceding invoices.
II was more scattered. but It brought
missed a compact masse In the ninth
ami left n masse, which Hoppe made.
Safety playing with the red ball frozen
TO the side rail In solitary grandeur
cracked three goose eggs In succession
for each side Shooting repeatedly for
that isolated ball. the players saw more
red than a woman's lips.
Willie exploded caroms all over the
5x10 lot in his fourteenth inning. for
- Aol1a hod tha nd Aic-
persed to the plateau's furthest limits.
1t took the highest skill at shotmaking
to punch billiards out of them until they
came to heel Once tanned, they exuded
billiards fast. There were two fine
cross-table shots in this run-62 long
on which Hoppe went out. The score;
Hoppe--i3. Q. ITO. 30. 80. o. o. Z, SO. .. 0, o.
%, 62-4oo. Average % STA; high runs. 49,
0. ' i"i7s. Average. IS 7-iS; high runs, ioi.
Referee-Charlss Peterson.
This afternoon Hoppe and Schaefer. To-
night Hoppe and Cochran.
schaefer's Big Run.
A run of 172 in the sixth inning was
q big hep to Jake Schaefer in winning
the afternoon game. He beat Welker
Cochran, 400 to 207. Schaefer was
stumbling along until that inning, again
playing faulty with regard to the
speed Of the table and having TO fight
for his points. In his big run. however
Il wasn't long before he had his stroke
and table condition in harmony. and
once he got the feel OF 1t he counted
rapidly.
Capital work on masses featured the
run and also confident and accurate
long table driving when the time came
Ito send ball gallivanting. The young
player showed the same diFdain for
the bridge his father always did and
good deal OF the same skill of his
father with the left hand. The termin-
ating shot was a long one cushion
affair. with the second ball against the
lower rail and with miles to go to count
Schaefer made a good deal of trouble
for himself by his unsatisfactory posi-
ton play and had to do lot of ponder
ing OF shots which apparently could
have been avoided with more care on
the shots which led up to the annoying
position results He went pretty strong
20 the finish nevertheless, for his last
1--WE innings we're good for 1879 points
Young Jake's next to last count was
one If the snarpiest and most pictur-
esque of the tournament The balls
had rolled into perfect alignment the
white In a corner. the red diagonally
out from 1t two feet or so. and the cue
ball further out on an extension OF the
same line. line which divided the
ninety degree angle Of the cushions
into exactly forty-five degrees. II was
an around the table shot from the red
to the near end rail and i've cushions
!, in all Any good three cushioner could
make II standing on his head, but II
was none the less well done, for IL
yielded position for the last carom and
expertly avoided all ksses
Cochran trailed all the way after
schaefer's big inning. He had four
zeros and Schaefer five. Safety was
responsible for the numerous blanky
although not for the thrcs with which
5chaefer began the matinee. The score
schsffs'>-o, O.. o. II, TO- i72, 1. 30, o. 1.
e, I, Y. .@s. q. ~. a.. B3. Total 400. Aver
age. ~ 4-'s. High runs, liz, AZ, a..
cochrar Q. !, 81. "a. o. Q. 80. o, I. ~.
Q, o. !. T. 3s, 20. Total 207 Average
~ 3-f1. sigh runs, 20. 80, 80.
Referee-,charies Peterson.