Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-18
BAD LUCK AND
CARELESS PLAY
CAUSE DEFEAT
Horernans Gives Fine, Elk.
hibition; Cont Wins
From Hagenlacher.
(By The Associated Press.)

New York. Nov. Is. - Edouard
Horemans. the Belgian. defeated Jake
Schaefer. champion, by the tally of
300 points to 321, in the ninth game
of the 1872 balkline billiard champion
chip tournament at the Hotel Penn
Sylvania last night. The titleholder
was careless and a bit slouchy about
his billiards at the start. This proved
costly. for Horeraans, by wonderful
masse, put together runs of 144 and
III that smothered the champion, who
went down to defeat for the first time
since he won the title n yea ago at
Chicago.
Horemans' average was IS 1o-14,
Schaefer's average was 22 1914, and
his best runs 1877 and 80. s
Both Miss at Start.
i" Schaefer gathered the balls on the
mort rail after both he and Horemans
cd missed in the first inning of the
.lth game, but flubbed a short carom
. 6. Horemans in his frame OF the
;econd mixed all of his skill with
ic.asse and English. At so he had the
globes in perfect position in the cen
L. VI lllc IdUlc. q AZ 100 lie dtIlttXeu
The crowd with a lightly stroked spi-
IA inasse. and three shots later he
:cored. on a perfectly guaged bank.
After his Hath billiard he passed on
Il t-ght.line-up mas shot. but Schaef-
cr again failed to score and Horemans
continued. with a lead of 144 to 6.
. Horemans made the most OF
Schaefer's miss and followed his great
u with another of Ill, giving him a
lead at the end of the third inning
Of 255 to s.
Champ Off Form.
Schaefer was badly off form. He
played open table and cushion caroms
with all the bad breaks of a player
out of luck n stroke. The champion
tailed 20 and 10 respectively in his
fourth and fifth inning,A all Of which
represented hard shooting. At the
close of the fourth inning Horemans
led by 80 to Schaefer's 35, and SEEM
cd to have the titleholder at his mer-
cy.
Encouraged by a fine promising
leave, the first. ray of promise he had
experienced. .Schaefer put together a
~variegated run OF 1877 on his sixth turn
upon a nervy. single cushion ray in
which the cue ball travelled twice
across the table before catching the
second object BAH. At IS he estab-
Iisl,ed raa nurse. Apparently he, did
not care for 1t. for he deliberately
went TO the ends of the table for his
tallies. After passing into triple fig
ures he keut his stroke plant by fire.
quent dead ball drives. It was SNOWY
billiards with plenty Of action and
clever 'cueing.
Pace Tells on Belgian.
Horemans began to show signs o,
wavering in the seventh inning. The
pressure of the champions game wa:
telling, but the Belgian, after desper'
ate efforts. recovered despite Schaef
er's attempt to wreck his close play
While doing this the champion had
partially closed up on his' opponent
But the Belgian was not to be denied
and he closed his victory with a rur
Of Al. 49,
Edouard Horemans (spot ball)-o
144, Ill, SIS, 10, rs, 81. O., o.. 2, o. IL
,47--5OO points. Average. S5 1914
High runs, IA, Ill, 70.
Jake Schaefer (w!lite ball)+0, 6, 0
29, 10, 1877. 20, o., o, As. 3S, 6, 0, 0-321
points. Average, % 1914. High runs
1877; IS. IS. 4
Frcnchman Wins.
Roger Cont, French champion, de
feated Erich H~agenlacher. the Ger
man. in the afternoon game today. 50t
TO 355. The. defeat marked Hagen
lacher's fourth straight reverse. TIL
score: tE
Cont (spot ball)-2o, o. 8, q. o, o, 6
Ga. Sc, 2O4, 10. 80, Total 500. Aver
age, Al S-12. High runs, 204. 10, 81
Hagenlacher (white ball)-4. 0. IS
o., 8, II, 81, II, 10. IA, 10. 81. Tota
a55. Average 20 1872. High runs, 81
II, tG5.