The New York herald., 1922-02-15
COLLINS BEATS BOS
IN BILLIARD GAME
Z. T. Appleby Also Is Victor
iOus in International Asso-
citation 1872 Tourney.

Special Dispatch to THE New YonK HnuLp.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 14.--Another up
set featured the international amateur
billiard tournament at the Manufac-
turers Club this afternoon when Ara
Bos OF Holland. champion of Europe,
was beaten by Percy l.. Collins OF the
Illinois A. C. of Chicago. The score
was 800 to 263. More than d thousand
saw the match.
Collins. who finished fourth in the
recent national tournament In Brooklyn,
led the foreign champion all the way
averaging II 1926. as against Boss
| 10 3-26
To Collins also went the honor of
making the high run of the afternoon,
with well played 61 In the seventh
inning. During this splendid exhibition
the Westerner made six perfect drives,
with the balls under absolute control.
! He missed on a long masse close to tho
| short rail.
Bos, who was playing his first match
! in America had a high run Of AZ in the
twenty-fifth nnig, which put him
within twenty-four points OF tying the
Westerner. During this rally the Euro
pean champion clicked the balls with
watch was put on him. and it was found
that he was making at the rate of ten
| points every minute.
Bos did not get any the best of luck
as five times he was obliged to shoot
when the balls were frozen. He missed
but one masse, but in open table work
was excelled by Collins.
! The Illinois star did not play as fast
as Bos. but scored number Of remark
/ h1a shots his ,,Io
uncanny. In the eighth inning, after
he had run twenty points, he miscued
on one cushion draw. Twice he failed
to drive the balls out of'baik.
From the eleventh inning on Collins
enjoyed a lead of fifty points most OF
the time. He fell down with ciphers in
the twenty-third and twenty-fourth in
nilngs, but Bos was not able to take
! advantage of such failure to count
Finally Bos struck his stride, and in the
twenty-hfth inning made his flashy run
or forty-seven, but missed on long two
cushion drive. Collins went out with an
unfinished run of eighteen and had the
balls in position to go even higher. The
score:
Percy L. Collins (Chica GOO. Z. i. 81. II, 3.
g. Il T. g. g f. IS 2@ 4otSi aS 3 &c., g. Ii eh rus e.
81. Average. II 1926.
sAry Bos moioLand).2, Z; l., !. o. = 80. q. g,
| ", a, %,
Average, 10 1926.
Referee-J. Herbert Ie.is, Chicago.
II. II. Appleby Beats Morton.
Edgar L. Appleby of New York, ma
tional amateur champion, won from J. Z,
Cope Morton of Philadelphia in the
night game by the score of 300 to 206.
It was a long drawn out match oi
thirty-five innings in which Appleby
played good. bad and indifferent bill
liards. but featured all with high rur
of ninety-one in the thirteenth inning
This is the longest run of the tourna
ment so far and beats that of Francis
his brother, by fifteen.
Appleby also went out with an unfin.
ished run of forty-three and had the
balls in a position to click off man,
more. The New Yorker averaged S-20-3;
and Morton, the star of the Unior
League, averaged .3135.
Morton's best run was twenty-five
} which he made in the twenty-third in
ming, missing on a follow shot Mortor
brought considerable merriment into the
match when he pulled out rabbits foo'
in the fourth inning and again in tho
eighth, but the last time IL brought him
hard luck, as he missed a long one. The
score:
Edgar r. Appleby New York)-o, O.. 10. 10
!, ., 10. /, 0. o. 0. u. ~. 1, 1, o, 4. o
!, o, II, 4s; Total. 800. High rum oi
]. r. r. Co Cope Morton tPhiladclphia)-Ia. a. /
2, 3, 3, 5. 81, %, !. Q. 4, Q, 3, 4, 30. o
l. :. 2. 1G;;, Total 2oo' High rum 70
Roferee-J. Herbert Lewis. C.,cago.