New-York tribune., 1922-11-18
belgian Makes
Good Start and
Maintains Lead
s>asee $40 Points in, Four
Innings; Cont Ousplays
Hagenlacher, 500 to 355
!. By Fred Hawthorne

q gassard Horemans, Of Belgium, de-
i ,.ssa. Jake Schaefer, the worlds
Il ssnpion last night by a score Of 500
s 4 Ill. in the ninth game OF the inter
b,;iesal championship tournament at
ss bslkline billiards ct tho Hotel
|, ,snsylvania.
81 Ha.smans required fourteen innings
/ #a rake his total. after having counted
Il ste csroms at the end of the seventh
M.ssion. Tho Belgian played wonder
8 III billiards. in the first half of the
4 Essteh, putting together runs OF 14z,
) inland 73 in the first six innings. Then
+ #slowed . long session Of safety play
&y ebetb men and both made frequent
H stshes.
Taaefer, defeated for tho frat time
d b &c he won the worlds title, looked
q ar from champion last night. Aside
FROM his cluster of 167, made in the
$ixth inning, he was never In good
$ortrol Of the balls. Trailing at is to
&fg in the fifth session, the young
champion made plucky effort to over-
#ssl Horemans, but eventually failed.
4 a sehaefer won the bank and then
#cratched on his first attempt to score.
oremans duplicated this. The cham
III on had counted only 6 In his second
ssion, when he failed 60 connect on
p wide draw shot. and resumed his
beat.
Hofemans Starts Long Run
II There was nothing to indicate that
3Horemans was on the verge of two
Isanity TO timber UP. The Belgian be-
kgan quietly. his stroke being noticeab!y
4smooth and delicate. On his four
xwsnth count Horemans apparently
/ ssaed TO caron on q single cushion
4 ss6s, and Schaefer started, involun-
1 agily, from his chair. The next IN
! sssnt he sank back, for Horem ans made
4 &hs earon on what might be termed
Delayed steal" the red object ball re-
4 ufning from the far end rail and
4 foumping" the cue ball into carom
/ with the second object ball. From that
+ point OH Horemsns played brilliantly,
f no matter what the demands made upon
& bis. skill. From his goth TO his seth
+ point he clicked off his caroms in the
free space near the end OF Ghe table,
f the balls travelling scarcely six iches
+ In that time.
Il Confronted by q bad lineup on his
fsyenty-frst carom the Belgian solved
4 tho. problem with a daring double kiss
E Ssllow shot. Point after point rippled
+ from Horemans's cue, and no shot ap-
psafsd too intricate for him TO fashom.
The Rissse was frequently brought into
use during this run. One of these.csme
q on his 1S5th count, with the three balls
II eloss together along the top rail near
E shs corner. Horemans cut the g0rdiaa
& knes With a brilliantly executed rnasse.
E The balls persisted in huggfng the rail,
e however, and after counting 14A caroms
II Boremans failed on masse, the third
81 be had tried in succession,
Those who were hoping Schaefer
II would get started on. his next attempt
we're doomed to disappointment, for
& young jake promptly scratched on
vide spread draw shot, leaving the
II table again to Horemans, who gathered
The worries together on three great open
table shots and then herded them down
toward the end almost precisely on that
b same verdant pasturage where he had
gathered his previous carons. The son
Of Belgium finally missed on a two
cushion shot after counting Ill. This
gave him total OF 255 to the cham
pion's six. Schaefer, the pale young
champion, looked bit worried.
Belgian Increases Lead
B The title holder had runs of % and 20
In the fourth and fifth innings, while
Horemans added clusters of SO and 10
Il TO his string, leaving the count 329 to
4sSn his favor.
Then, with his back against the wall,
soaag Schaefer came through with q
dazzling run OF 167, CLEANED by 9TH
open table play and nursing. More
fhaa once the champion had to gain
position by three and four cushion
Saots all around the table. His nurs-
Ing was not as deftly done as Hore-
Esns's, and he was frequently con-
3sonted by difficult line-ups, which he
REercame in masterly style, r,
.o5WAile the audience was pulling
sstrpnaly, yet silently, for the American.
that young man went along to the high
yuusof the game, failing at the end on
fShnple bank shot
horemans added 10 TO his total in
ihe sixth frame, the run ending when
aesxaaed to negotiate tricky draw
aaQs. Schaefer got 20 more, missing
Jopaa simple bank shot, after success
! fully making @ very dificult draw,
Moremans scored 81 before he missed,
leaSing the balls widely scattered, and
then followed two innings in which
neither man could get q carrom. Each
resorted to safety play, and, where q
/ Minute before ft seemed that Hore-
mans was due to set a new high aver
ege In the tournament, no averages
were shattered.
Champion Rallies Gameiy
schaefer was the first to get going
again and ran 45 and So points in the
tenth and eleventh sessions, while
Eoremans counted scared looking g
The. champion had cut down Hore-
lMsns's lead drastically, the score now
sEreading AL to 315 in the Belgian IS
favor.
Moro safety play followed, schaefer
naging s, o, @ in the twelfth, thirteenth
'a0s fourteenth frames, while Hore-
mans had only 12 points in the twelfth
and thirteenth. He still needed AZ
goints to go out, and after Schaefer's
3ssiure to score in the fourteenth
agfemans ran out his string.
The summaries:
aotsma ns-o. IA. III. IS. 10, rs, 81, Q,
~ zo IL, AZ; total. 500; high runs. i44,
4ts, -: average. 35 1o-l4
l sse eecasefer twhite ban1--b g. O. 20. 10
'AisS,s as &e Q. .. IS, 49, s. .: total. s21: high
- a Fsssssas. %, SO; average. q 1s-14