The New York herald., 1921-11-21
HOPPE WILL MEET
SCHAEFER IN FINAL
Record Reaking 1872 Billiard
Event Ends When Stars Com
pete IN Five More Games.
ByTHoMAs j. GALLAGHER.

VIA the playing of three games to-
day and two tomorrow the record
brening Is q balkline billiard tourna-
mat. which began last Monday at Chi
ego. win come to an end. Thus far
sixteen games have been contested. OF
lose Hoppe has won four and lost none.
Tonight he will play Cochran. To-mor-
row night he will meet Schaefer in the
final game. Cochran's run OF 3Sl against
Sutton and Schaefer's victory over
Cochran, in which the loser had only one
inning and failed to score. while the
victor, with runs of SO and 31S got out
in two innings, placing on record a
marvellous average of 200 in game OF
400 points. reflect the qualityfof competi-
tion Hoppe has yet to contend against
Cochran's high run l. championship
tournament record, but it does not equal
the run OF 436 made by Schaefer March
5, 1921, in a match Of $500 points
against Edouard Horemans. To diff
ferentiate between record made in a
championship tournament and one ac-
complished in a bona fide match is an
effort to maintain distinction without
difference. 1t is hair splitting to an
enthusiasts are actively and earnestly
discussing records it must not be over
looked that Sutton's average of 100,
made against Hoppe in the IS q tourna-
ment at Madison Square Garden In 1906
still stands. 1t was scored In q game of
500 points. Schaefers average of 200 in
q 100 point event does not displace 1t.
Conti Is the Glass.
When Benjamin E. Bensinger. presl-
dent of the Brunswick-Balke CoIlender
Company, under whose auspices the COM
petitions are being held, said to THE
NEW YORK HERALD that the tournament
would be wonderful, the greatest ever"
he spoke as one possessed Of prescience.
The games have been replete with inter-
esting incidents. One of these was the
sensational work of Cont. the twenty
year-old French expert. whom Mr.. Ben
singer on a recent visit to Europe. in
duced to enter Charles A. Bigelow of
New York, real billiard enthusiast and
good amateur player, who has been in
Chicago the last week, telephoned
Maurice DAILY: Cont is the class of the
tournament Evidently the prediction
that Cont would be "a bright star in
the billiard armament" made by the
French author Alfred Mortier,
is verified. The outstanding disappoint-
ment of the tournament is Horemans.
Expected to make large runs and high
averages he has accomplished only
run of 15S and an average OF 33 All.
Commenting on his performances, civil
engineer who is pretty near a first class
amateur remarked: "As an exhibition
player Horemans is wonder. AS a
match or tournament player he is
failure. He is too temperamental and
lacks the fighting spirit which is es-
sentlal in any game OF skill or ath-
letics."
Grand Averages.
To date Hoppe has scored 1000 points
in fortythree innings, a grand average
OF 1872. The grand averages OF the
other players are: Schaefer 1,403
points in 81 innings, a grand average OF
1925; Cont. 1,622 points in As innings,
grand average 1904; Cochran. 1,545
points in A innings. grand average
$500; Sutton, 1851 points in 4S innings,
grand average 2S.14; Horemans. 1912
points in 81 innings, grand average 20;
Morningstar, 1921 points in 46 innings,
grand average 1854.
Erick Hagenlocher. the German cham
pion billiard expert, Is likely to arrive
on the next steamer from Hamburg
Joseph Knopfler. who will manage
Hagenlocher in this country, says: Il
sent him tickets three weeks ago. He
has not written since the tickets were
due in Berlin, so l expect he intends to
come soon. He is about % years Of age
and can average between 40 and so"
At Maurice Days Friday night a
gentleman asserted that he had wit
messed at the Grand Central Palace a
match for the 1872 balkline champion
ship between Sutton and Hoppe which
was won by Sutton and was willing to
wager that his assertion was correct.
Nobody present disputed him. Neither
did anybody recall the game I'm ques-
ton. Reference to THE NEW YORK
HERALD's files established that such a
game had taken place December IS,
1906. and the scores we're: Sutton, 500;
Hoppe, 258.