The New York herald., 1922-02-01
Also Breaks National Amateur
1872 High Average Mark
With II 711-17.
BEATS CLARKSON, 3OO-145
Loser Drops Another to Rem
ner--Collins 0yerwhelms
Gardner by 300-88.
ny THOMAS J. GALLAGHER.
STANDING OF PLAYERS.

Won. Lost. Run. Aver.
z. T. Appleby...... o 1,ss ,ss i ll-l'
T. S. Appleby. ........ log 10 90
y. A. Renner. 90 lz-o-
Percy Collins. ...... ! CD 10
r.. II. Clarkson. ~ sg-5a
-E. W. Gardner.....s 4 10
ALSO defeated Charles Heddon, but as lat
ter withdrew game was thrown out.
To-day's Schedule go p. M, Clarkson vs.
Gardner: rs P. NJ. F.. A. Appleoy VS.. Col
lins; Sis p NJ, Il. Il. Appleby VS.. Renner.
Edgar T. Applebys playing was the
outstanding feature of yesterdays con-
t;nuatiou OF the tournament for the
national amateur % balkine cham
pfonship at the Crescent Athletic CLUB.
In winning from 7. Henry Clarkson by
800 to 145 he made a new high run rec
ord of 142. which broke the record OF
13g Of the National Association OF Anna
1eur Billiard Players. held by Charles
Heddon, and also overshadowed his
brothers run of log. made the previous
night, with 142. He also surpassed his
own high average of 16 1918, made the
day before, with IT 11-17.
When he had executed the last shot
of the big run he appeared to be able
to continue indefinitely. A masse of the
simplest. shortest kind proved his un-
doing. TO hold a line position he needed
to force the cue ball about an inch and
a half. He gave it only enough mo-
nentum to move it an inch. The best
previous National record was made by
Heddon at Cleveland a year ago.
Garrison played two games in the
afternoon. Besides losing to Edgar T.
Appleby he also lost TO Emil A. Renner.
the score being 500 to 191. Although
he had been i'll he agreed to play twice
to make amends for the withdrawal OF
Heddon.
In the night game Percy Collins had
an easy victory over Edward w. Gard
ner by 500 to IS.
Renner Chooses Spot Ball.
Clarkson. who is a member of the
Amateur Billiard Club, and Renner. who
halls from Youngstown, Ohio, strung
for the lead at / 80 o'clock. Renner
won and chose the spot ball. He opened
with run of 10, more than half OBJ
tanned by hard shots. Clarkson began
with two zeros On his third oppor-
tunity he gathered the balls In the upper
left corner. but made only 3. an align
ment and faulty mass retiring him.
In the fourth. fifth and seventh in
nings the Ohio man demonstrated that
lie was long on execution and short on
system. He played slashing general
y billiards. in which draw niasse and
cushion effects predominated, and de-
veloped scores of IA. 35 and S3. Two
innings later, showing more technique
than had previously characterized his
operations. he collected IS. This
brought his total to 1872. Meanwhile
Clarkson. who had made no better run
than 7. had only 20 to his credit.
In the eleventh inning, by touching
the cue ball when aiming, Clarkson
fouled and destroyed a good prospect.
He stopped at 4. In his seventeenth
and eighteenth chancse Clarkson made
Fl and IL and reached a total of rs.
whore he stood at the end of nineteenth
inning, In which Renner ran IS and es-
tablished total of 227.
In his twenty-first inning, with a well
played run OF AZ. the thirty-fifth count
the result of a wide nasse, Clarkson
turned his first century and reached
1913. That the Buckeye player was a
strong two handed executant was re-
vealed in the twenty-fourth inning by
q run of 40. He missed the forty-flrst
shot by attempting to make the cue ball
edge the second object
A meritorious exhibition of balllinc by
Clarkson In the twenty-ninth inning pro-
duced 81 points. The next inning he
missed both balls, and one point was taken
off his score. The game dragged for
three more innings, when Renner got his
required 800. Clarkson made 192 points,
but, having lost one. his official total
was 191.
CIarkson Loses Second Game.
With Il. r. Appleby as an opponent, at
AIS, Clarkson began his second game Of
the afternoon. He won the bank. made
three caroms and fell a trifle short on a
two cushion effort. In three shots APP
pleby had the balls together in the up
per right corner, where he unnecessarily
resorted 20 an extremely difficult masse
md missed.
After having made 8 and two ciphcrs
Appleby indulged in a record break
ing performance. At IS he got thc
balls in the head section. There he
held them until he had earned 142.
lie played ideal balkline, his control
was absolute. his drives perfect, his
nursing delicate and beautiful. Trying
70 hold line position ne fell short on
little lab masse. In his next inning he
missed In a similar manner. He had
scored and had the balls at the foot
OF the table. Two innings later he
failed on another little massc.
CiariSson was In fine stroke in his
tenth inning. and rolled up 35. Polsing
for his thirty-sixth stroke he touched
the cue ball. thereby committing a foul.
for which one point was taken from his
score. In the seventeenth, the final in
ming, CIarkson ran 80
Appleby's high run seemingly made
him overanxious TO make a high av-
craEe, for, until the last inning, when
lie closed the game with as. no played
hastily. even recklessly and ruined many
promising prospects. Although he failed
60 count on only two occasions in the
eleven innings following his record
achievement he made just 1O1 points.
Collins smotbcrs Gardner.
A rcarranged schedule, incident 20 the
withdrawal of Ieddon, brought Collins
and Gardner together in the evening
game. Collins won by 800 70 So.
Collins began with three vaiueless in
nlngs and had only n total OF . at the
end OF his fifth opportunity. In the next
snning nc compiled 3s. This he followed
with 50. making his capital 110. Tho
larger run was combination OF driving
and nursing, chiefly driving He OBJ
tsined Al at the foot OF the table, the
others in the head section.
Gardner started with 16. During the
next seventeen innings. with r. high run
e .. no accumulated only 43. At the
conclusion of the eighteenth inning Col
lins had 100, Gardner go
BY we'll executed run of ~ Collins
rot 60 203 in the nineteenth. When he
had made $50 Collins had an average of
oxarf1v 10 He finished In tventv-nfne