The New York herald., 1922-11-16
CHAMPION DEFEATS
CONT 500 TO 251
Cochran Comes From Behind
to Conquer Hagenlocher
by 500 to All.
SCINTILLATING CUE WORK
Germans COattails Play Part
in His Defeat-Schaefer
Runs 1876.
SCINTILLATING CUE WORK
BY THOMAS j. GALLAGHER.

present champion. only nine innings
to defeat Roger Cont of France in the
fifth game of The worlds 1872 billiard
championship at the Hotel Pennsyl-
vania last night. Three long runs
marked by masterful. resourceful bill
liards, the first a string of 1873, the
next 1876 and the third "a gave the
youthful king of the balkline experts a
commanding lead over his rival. The
score ended 500 to PSI, the winners
average being 55 SO.
But for slip in the seventh inning
better than TO-, He needed only 25
points after counting "a, but he failed
on a spread draw, and before the
match was over Cont by fine up
hill effort, had increased his total from
101 to PSI
Scnaefer's high run of 1875 Is the best
thus far in the tournament. His aver
age OF 50 SO equals that made by Hoppe
Tuesday night In the tournament at
Chicago year ago Cont beat Schaefer,
400 to 2O3. and averaged 40. No other
Schaefer won the bank. chose the
white ball and opened with a count and
made hard luck run Of IA. On his
second stroke, two cushion effect
across the head of the table he realized
a kiss which left the red ball on the
right rail, half way down the table. and
the two whites, almost in contact, IN
the upper right corner.
A sparkling single cushion across the
table got him cut of that difficulty, but
he had to make six more hard shots be-
fore he obtained a favoring position
Finally, on his fifteenth stroke, single
cushion across the foot OF the table, the
cue ball got between the rail- and the
red ball. Cont made 5, on drive down
the table got bump and left the
balls in the lower right corner
By strenuous cue work Schaefer got
20 and missed spread across the middle
of the table. Cont missed and Schaefer
made without gaining control Of the
spheres Cont began with a long two
cushion shot. worked the balls to the
foot section. made and miscue.
Schaefer begins in Earnest.
Then the champion began effective
operations. He was In good stroke and
evidently confident. From the lower
section he moved the balls to the middle
of the table, where he did some long
range balkline nursing. At 40 he had
the objects on the head rail- For a
time his control was not satisfactory,
but a series of drives. long and short
and neat fnasse effects got them In
perfect order at 6s.
Thereafter until he had scored 1913 he
held the objects close to the headsrail
Then a separation occurred. A compara-
txyaly 1nnc dv1x ytald lad "A
"froze" the two whites in the upper left
corner. A spot shot produced a miss.
Cont quickly assembled the balls at
the head of the table and by a delight
full exhibition of methodical billiards
held them in that department for al run
of ST. He made, masse strokes, nip
: draws and exact drives until 1t seemed
that he would be able to remain at the
head section until the game was over.
He finally failed on masse when the
objects were about foot apart.
He gave Schaefer another fortuitous
prospect and it was utilized. Maneuver-
ing very much as Cont did. but with
more freedom and solidity, Schaefer did
not affect an equal degree of precision.
He kept the cue ball at the headSof the
table. the object balls moving and de-
pended upon his position draw to retain
or recover control. Several OF his long
drives we're revelations of adjustment
of force. Driven balls came back to
the desired location with unerring
nicety He remained at the head OF
the table until he had made 1872, at
which they began to move down the
table. Three strokes later he drove two
balls and got what he deserved a bad
break. A long single cushion effort from
the foot rail was futile.
a-G-
the balls together. missed on a short draw
and once more gave Schaefer setup.
Playing rapidly Schaefer compiled a
run of "a. within rs ponte of game. AS
in his preceding telling runs. he ad-
hered to the head of the table There
he accumulated After a period OF
open table and cushion play, Just when
1t was thought he could finish the one
sided contest. no missed on a spread
draw with twist 70 the right rail- q
The cue ball Dassed close to the second
object. Cont compiled 43 and got a
kiss on an attempted cushion follow and
drive. Schaefers eighth inning returned
only s. He tried short follow on
which there was kiss and got only the
kiss.
with the result an apparent certainty
Cont entfused the spectators by making
a run OF 107, all obtained in the hard
section and featured by scintillating
masse effects. Then Schaefer easily
gathered the 20 he needed.
The score:
JAKE sCHAETER (wsite balD--f4, 20. Z.
100. 1876, T. %, ;. 20-so0 High runs. 1875.
100. "a. Average, 70 80.
ROGER CONT (spot balD 3. 0. 5, 81, !. 3.
4s. 1oT-25i. High runs. 1o7. 81, 4S. Aver
age, 81 3-s.
Referea-Albert G.. Cutler.
Cochran's Varied Billiards.
The afternoon game was Intensely In
teresting Welker Cochran defeated
Erich Hagenlocher by 90 points. when
Cochran began his final inning the
core was All 10 462 In favor of the
German champion.
Cochran played a deal OF high class
,illiards and some that. for an aspirans
Or a worlds championship, was de-
sidedly grotesuue. Generally he was ef-
fective. He played TO count and count
he did. In some innings he pounded and
slammed without any objective that
could be vsuallzed. on occasions he
was deft and extremely artistic Perlodi-
cally he indulged In forceful operation.
long drives which on an average, pro-
ouced satisfactory results.
Hagenlochers coat tall probably
caused his defeat With the game APP
parently In his grasp he leaned on the
right rail to play masse. He made
the carom. but, before rega lining an
erect attitude, the bottom of his coat
brushed the cue ball and the second OBJ
ject. causing foul. That was the turn
ing point of the game. After Il had
happened the German was plainly dis