The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-11-19
Local Contestant Triumphs
by 500 to 2O3 Score in
Fourteen Innings.
BELGIAN DOWNS COCHRAN
Foreigner Goes Out With an
Unfinished Run of 207
Points.
BY THOMAS J. GALLAGHER.


Edouard Horemans, Belgian cham
pion, and Willie Hoppe, former worlds
titleholder. We're the winners yester-
day in the 1872 balkline billiard tour
nament for the championship of the
world in progress at the Hotel Penn
sylvania. Hoppe beat Roger Cont.
800 TO 203, and Horemans downed
Welker Cochran, 500 to 405.
Hoppe played open table billiards ana
short spreads and draws With free
stroke. His masse efforts, however.
were positively oppressive. He did not
miss any he played. but his preliminary
fiddling indicated a nervous strain and
a lack of coordination between mind
and muscle. He looked and acted ner-
vously. yet was able to score by PLAIN.
perfect execution. In his ninth inning
he counted by one of the worst
scratches ever made in championship
event. The scratch was made on the
third stroke.
The outcome was run of 122, net
profit of l19. Cont affected precise
billiards and was unequal to the en-
deavor. He made several errors OF
Judgment. and one instance, his worst.
was a failure to get the balls out
Oh the lower fulduie Oak. aIter ne
had run rs. He either did not hear
the balls called 'in" or forgot 1t.
Hoppe Wins Bank.
Hoppe won the bank, chose white ball
made three and missed draw half way
across the table. Cont played a single
cushion shot a trifie too fine. Then
Hoppe in five strokes. one a three
cushion effect around the lower section.
- n A. III -. IL - I.E% A.
He counted rapidly in that vicinity until
he had made forty-one. Two shots
later he had the spheres in the head
section. At sixty-three he played
masse over which he did a lot of fiddling.
His seventy-ninth stroke was similar.
At 100 the balls were at the anchor on
the right rail. His 109th carom scat
tered the balls. Electing to play three
shot instead of a spread he missed.
With a spread draw and one cushion
Cont placed all .hree balls in the upper
left corner. Then he played neatly for
thirty-one. An i'll judged short drive de-
stroyed the position and he stopped at
thirty-three. On three cushion shot
Hoppe got a kiss. Cont made one and
on a creditable spread draw was un-
lucky, the cue/ ball squeezing between
the second object and the rail. Hoppe
followed with twenty-four and miss
and Cont made a miss and thirty eight.
He got his points in the foot section.
A bump" on a short draw grouped
the balls In lower right balk.
Hoppe did hold them there. but by
general execution counted 4S. at which
he dropped them in the lower right
corner. At 50 the cue ball settled right
in the corner and the object nearly
aligned on the foot rail. He declined
to try a masse, but counted on cush-
ion shot around the upper left corner.
On his sixty-second stroke he failed on
a short single cushion. Cont tried
single cushion shot across the table and
missed.
Begins with Three Cushion Shot.
In his seventh inning Hoppe began
with a three cushion shot from the left
rail around the loTer right angle. On
the second stroke he had the balls
under control. After making 81 he
shifted to the head end. At "a he fid-
died thirty eight times, addressing the
cue ball for a masse and then played "A
draw shot Two shots more and he missed
a. simple cushion shot His third shot in
his ninth inning was an amazing scratch.
The two object balls we're against the
left rail about three feet apart. He
played fine on the red to send the cue
ball down to the foot rail and back.
The cue ball went down to the foot
rail, back to the head, down and back
a second time and barely reached the
white. From that fluke he realized IL.
He missed on a bank, refusing to try
a simple cushion masse. Close manipu-
Iation at the head OF the table and plain
vet masterfui general execution featured
the scoring. Cont followed with Al. all
made Mt the head end. He began with
a sparkling masse and finished by fall
ing TO hit the first ball hard enough
when he tried a short draw with his
LIT hand. At the end of the nine In
rings the totals were Hoppe 4o6. Cont
12s. Hoppe made 1s and missed on a
draw.
In three shots Cont got the objects In
tho lower section. BY good manage
ment. cross the table play, deft masses
and seasonal nursing he collected ~.
Then he made a long drive. Apparently
forgetting he had one shot in balk. on
his seventy sixth stroke he played a
short shot. whereupon Referee Cutler
said mot out" and stopped him. From
punched leave Hoppe made ~ and
missed on a three cushion effort. With
n IN the twelfth and 10 in the four
teenth Hoppe won, while Cont made
three misses.
WILLIE HOPPE Cwhite ball)-3, 100. Q. -.
800 r points mt l. Average ci s5io-i4 High runs.
12c. 100. sc.
HoGEE CONT Cspot baID--0. 80, /. o. IS.
o. o. o. ~. rs. 0. q. o. Total, 2o3 points
Average, IL Sis High runs. 70, ~, 3s.
Referee-Albcrt q. Cutler.
Horemans Beats Cochran.
Edouard Horenans. champion of Bel
aium. defeated Welker Cochran OF San
Francisco in the afternoon game, 500
TO 405.