New-York tribune., 1922-11-21

raw tied for second place in the tourna-
w.as with three victories and one de-
~. each. Willie Hoppe, with four
Games won and none lost, leads the
ssg Horenlans meets Roger Cont this
sstsynoon, and Hoppe and Schaefer
,aset in the night game, the last sched-
Ma game of the tourney.
Should Schaefer defeat Hoppe and
poreuans beat Cont there would be
three.nan tie for the championship.
Inst ghen this could be PLAYED off
!. 5Fobismatical, because the grand
bsllreoE at the Pennsylvania will not
be available again until some time in
December. A definite announcement
as to future plans will be made after
to.night's game.
The players were most uneven in
their play last night. both doing we'll
in the first four or five innings ofIIy
b slump badly thereafter until the
last four. Schaefer, in the thirteenth
and sixteenth innings, scored runs of
q and l67 respectively, the latter an
unfinished cluster that completed his
string.
The champions high runs were 167.
lsO and 81, and his average 81 4-16.
Cochran had high runs of l12, 46 and
e. and an average of Is 1916.
All the fireworks in the evening
game came off in the first half dozen
Innings. Cochran, after winning the
hank, failed to score on his opening
shot, but left set-up for the cham
afne cluster of rs caroms. Failing on
aswo-cushion shot, Schaefer gave way
TO Cochran, who failed to score, and
The champion also scratched in his sec
ond turn at the table.
The San Francisco youth finally got
the balls TO rolling nicely for him in
The third inning, when he gathered a
total Of 1l2 caroms, this run being
she result of some really astonishing
open table shots in addition to fine
dose billiards near the head, of the
tsble. Cochran is always an interest
ing player to watch, you never know
!. when he is going 70 make a remark
sbly brilliant shot, or an inexplicablv
bad one, and Il was so last night. Sew
eval times, when 1t fooked as though
the balls were 50 badly spread that it
would be impossible to count, Cochran,
VITA the daring of youth fairly
vhsnged away, to make three and four
ssshion shots that reused the audience
to enthusiasm.
This run gave Cochran temporary
lead of liz to "a, but in the next
inning the champion came through
with splendid count of 100. Schaef-
sTs display of nursing in this run was
smot the finest yet seen in the tourna-
nsht, MS touch being as delicate and
true aanything ever done by Hoppe
when the latter held the title. g
teehran had his hopes blasted in thes
fifth inning, wSan eAe had the balls
u perfect nursing JatEthe foot of the
aDle and was apparently on the road
aa long run. Through an inexcusabIe
Eets of carelessness on his part, how
ever, the California entry failed to,
gst the balls out Of balk, this ending
hsun after counting 46 carroms In
BIS next seven innings he cut down
&haefer's lead by 2t points, due to
he champions bad lapse, but in his
last four turns he scored in two fig.
ares each time, yet Schaefer's splendid
tnlsh overwhelmed Cochran.
These two runs marked the high
spots of the match until the closing
stages when Schaefer finally reganed.
control of stroke and eye and touch, to
score cluster OF 81, in the thirteenth
session and finishing with his brilliant
hnishing run of 167 in his last turn at
the table. The balls were in such posi-.
ton when Schaefer clicked off his final
point that ne might have continued in
definitely.
The summaries:
Jake schaefer tspot ball)-79. o, /, $50,
~ y o' n J. Q, o, Q. XII 2. B. 1877 (unfn-.
!ssheol: Total 500 points Average
81 snS ~ - High runs--167 (unfpished(i 15o
Wslker Cochran (white ba,1>-o 119
49, ~ u O. !, 10. 10, 3, 0, II. Al, iii, ~.
rsns S,sl, GyS SyS points. AYerage-l8 15-1e High
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