The New York herald., 1922-02-02
CLARKSON WINS
1872; THEN LOSES
Beats Gardner 300-261 in Title
Tourney: Is Beaten by +.
S. Appleby, 300-265.
PLAYS 4 GAMES. IN 2 DAYS
Renncr Wins From Collins in
Slow Night Game by
500 to 1876.
STANDING OF PLAYERS.

STANDING OF PLAYERS.
Won. Lost. HUM hun. Ayersse s.ss
=. T. Appieby. 2 Q M las y n-i'
Tercy Collins. 50 ID
T.sH. Clarkson. ! :. ~,
W Gardner vs.. +. S. Appleby; s:i5 p. M,
Edgar G. Appleby VS.. Emil A. Renner.
nv xTHOMAs J. GALLAGHER.
Showing great recuperative powers
with the cue. T. Henry Clarkson Of the
Amateur Billiard Club won and lost
yesterday afternoon in the continuation
Of the tournament for the national anna
teur 1872 balk line championship at the
Crescent Athletic Club. He defeated
Edward w. Gardner Of Montclair, N. j..
by 800 TO 261 in thirty-six innings In the
first game, but lost the second to f. 8.
Appleby. who won by 300 to 265 In forty
ons innings. Clarkson's showing was
all the more remarkable because he
played two games in one afternoon, fol-
lowing two games the day before. pre-
ceded by illness which had prevented
him from competing on Monday.
In the night game Emil A. Renner OF
Youngstown. Ohio. won from Percy Col
lins OF Chicago by the close score of 800
to 283. The winners average was 8 42-43,
the losers 25-4s.
In the first game OF the afternoon
which Clarkson played he came from
behind to win. Gardner opened with
IL. which was the best run in seven
innings. Garrison got 2 In his first
inning. in his second and followed
with five blanks.
In the eighth Gardner played with
confidence and q jerky stroke and
realized "a. At IL he had perfect po-
sition on the left line. where he made
only 4. Clarkson worked out IL and,
missing on a short single cushion. left
the balls In the upper'left corner. Play
ing in manner reminiscent of his old
time form Gardner utilized the break
for s8. He did not specialize. On the
contrary he made points at every Sec
tion of the table,
Finally. with the spheres in the lower
right corner. he missed a short masse
in which the cue ball took two cushions.
In the next inning he gathered IA and
turned his first century. The score at
this period was: Gardner. 10; Clark
son. %.
Although employing flexible stroke
and playing with apparent confidence
Clarkson was either inaccurate or barely
missed. and 1t was not until the eleventh
inning that he did anything Of value.
Then he garnered occ. His next oppor-
tunity yielded only /. From the thir-
tacnth to the seventeenth inclusive he
put together ~, 30. IT,. Is and "a, and got
within thirteen points Of his opponent,
the totals being 160 and 147.
Operations In the twenty-third were
peculiar. After having made Gardner
had the balls in the upper left balk. A
miscue gave Clarkson an attractive
prospect. He made 1, and on his second
failed to get the balls out of balk. Gard
ncr then made 10 and reached 201, while
Clarkson stood at 1853.
The situation was different at the end
Of the twenty-seventh inning, in which
Clarkson by clever exposition Of ap-
rroved balk line method and classical ex-
ecution obtained 39 and lead Of s
points. At the termination Of the
twenty-ninth the game was even. each
having 224.
In the thirtieth Clarkson gave another
exhibition of classical balk line, compiled
A, the best run of the game, extending
his total to 27i and his lead to AZ. In
the thirty-fifth inning, with 16 to 60,
he made 13. and then. with three balls
IN a cluster, injudiciously made drive
that realized an alignment, which he
failed to solve with a masse. The next
inning he got the required three.
AppIeby Plays safety.
In the slowest game thus far in the
tournament r. s. Appleby won from
Clarkson. It was. however. brilliant in
spots. Generally 1t was dull and te-
dious. The redeeming feature was the
twenty-fifth inning. In which Clarkson
ran 81 and Appleby 80. Appleby de-
served to have been beaten. He mini
mized his resources by safety tactics.
Clarkson began proceedings. He
scored 8. missed short draw and left
his opponent favorable opening. APP
pleby's stroke was rather harsh and he
extracted only IL from the position. In
The third inning Clarkson made II, got
the balls together at the foot OF the
table, missed on a masse and gave APP
plcby another excellent chance.
Holding the spheres at the foot OF the
table Appleby quickly manipulated them
for 40. Notwithstanding both play
crs made numerous difficult shots that
was the only respectable run In fourteen
innings. Bad breaks and alignments re-
rtricted scoring.
In the fifteenth inning. with the foot
~ the table az field of operations
Appleby indulged in drives, draw and
massc strokes until he had accumulated
%. Then. In attempting a drive and
oblique draw. he made bad delivery
rnd jumped the cue ball. He retired
with the score "a to 40 In his favor.
Ciarkxon scored 20 in his eighteenth.
Two freezes interfered with his progress
In one instance he scored by the three
cushion route. Tho second time he had
the hailf spotted and trying the three
cushion lead shot. failed to mako the
cue ball hit tho side rail before the end
ond consequently missed
The next inning he failed to get the
balls out 81 the upper left balk. Another
failure 20 get the balls out of balk
stepped beautifully executed run of
81. which he made In tho. twcnty-fifth
inning. The run was completed at the
foot of the table. II made his total 17G
20 is7 for Applcby.
Evidently apprcciating that he had a
more than ordinary task to perform In
crcer TO win. Applcby played carefully
and precisely and blending good balls lire
method and superb execution nc made
~ and then blundcred on an easy single
cushion. This brought his score to go
against 1876 for clarkson.
Tht next timing produced II for
Ciarkson and for AppIcby. Tho latter
had five good chances TO gather the
Nails but az often played too hard.
Ofety operations seemed 10 dominate
proceedings for nine innings there