Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-20
'RUD|L DEFEATED.
I BY percy COLLINS
r,snch Billiard Champion Loses
4 TO chicagoan, 900 to 1884,
in Amateur Tourney
pLAys APPLEsy TONIGHT
nrLLIARD STANDINGS
N TONIGHT's GAME
"A, s,,s p. M.--Edsar Applsby. ". loser ef
.iAit,sCoIiinc match.

Il 1Ddll. .CoiIuv e
p.-cv n. Collins, Of Chicago. was
",c,or over Edouard Rudil, French
tsnion. W. in the worlds amateur
Cnssmpionship billiard tournament at
Ws Msnufacturers' Club this afternoon.
~ ~ M count was 800 points to 164!
The score follows:
sslY,ss';7Ss W ! 4, I, 2 % d / s,GS1l1 G.ssascs
fisS runsso,76s. ~ Sya;o a. AyeraSses3
III IT, iruln.s94s. 10 q. Is. 'Aversse- 2.iS.
Rud,l will meet Edgar T. Appleby,
.,a American champion, IN tonight y
s,cb us and the final game Of the round
.aS;n tournament will be decided to-
.so.row svvr evening when the title. .holder
III, cross cues with Collins.
Roth European entrants III the
.arIS's competition are eliminated A.
s;.ie n@sibilities, AIRY Bos, the Belgian
chomp. being able to win only one
~.tch ont of four SO far, while today's
Sore ore gave Rudil 2 and split for a
rolIins Virtually decided the issue this
afternoon in the twenty-third and
twenty fourth innings when ne ECt
sway for long runs, clicking the balls
to the tune Of 40 and O2 points, re.
spectively. The Chicagoan made his high
rurl in the eighteenth inning, totalins
Is points. ...
NJ times flivved disinally even on fairly
az fbe Chicagoan won the break and Sc.
lected the black ball. On his nrst az.
TENT he made two points and tnen sa'
down when he missed All open snot.
However. in the second inning lie
.o,hsred The balls and nursed them
Srt;l be reached thirty eight, then he
Hacame wide open and missed on his
forty first shot.
In the latter half Of the same in.
ninp the Frenchman also got the balls
Wiling and ran twenty -seven through
snme cleyerly executed mnsse shots.
\ From this point until the eighteenth
ffame both men put up poor exhibi :
ton and played as If they were; SUI.
fering from stage fright. Abomt
twenty five points was the limit of both
players In this inning. .,
In the eighteenth inning Collins finally
rot out Of his bad form and. getting the
Sal's together on the fifth shot, the Chi
tagcan nursed them along the long rail
until the fifty.ninth shot. which he
blew. -.
This was the highest ruin Of the after
noon. Rudil responded with q 40 in the
twenty first frame. and seemed to get
Better az the game progressed, ..-T;
Applebv Is the only player in the
tournament who has not dropped q
game. On Saturday night he enter
tanned one Of the large crowds which
have been sitting in regularly with some
high .class billiards when he defeated
AIRY Bos. European champion. Bos was
thereby definitely eliminated from any
chance at the worlds title. The man
from Holland has another match, how
ever. He plays J. r. Cope Morton, the
lone Philadelphia entry, probably to-
morrow afternoon.
'Bos has proven. to the delight Of the
galleries. that he has both the shots and
the nerve. The thrilling match in which,
he defeated Francis Appleby. younger
brother of the champion, will not soon
be forgotten and his match against
Edgar was another which teemed with
heart throbs ut times.