New Britain herald., 1924-01-23
H0PPE PASSES HIS
 RIVAL AT 658 MARK
Champion Runs Ahead After
 Brilliant All Around Playing

l By The Associated Press.
 1 Chicago, Jan. 23.-Resumtug his unfinished run of AS, Jake Schaefer ] last night started on the second 500 ! point block of the 1.500 point chal- lenge match with Willie Hoppe for the worlds 1S:2 balkline billiard championship.-~The challenger has a lS1 point lead. and Hoppe. to win last nights block, was faced with the task of making 631.
 Hopes control was gooS and he tied Schaefer at 65S and then kept l c playing,
 Schafer, resuming play where the balls came to rest Monday night, got only f, missing on a short follow. ! This made 52 for his thirteenth in- ming.
 Hoppe made 16. missing one cushion carom, but left Jake safe, and the challenger failed to count. Hoppe got s, missing a three cushion shot. Schaefer again fell victim of tight safety play, scoring only 1. Hoppe missed a poor leave. Schaefer got ? for his sixteenth inning. but again left Heppe an impossible shot and the champion scored blank.
 Sehaefer then got the balls together by fine three cushion draw, ran Is and missed on masse when his ball was frozen against the spot ball. He left the balls in a six inch triangle for Hoppe. The champion scored 35 and missed on three cushion shot. At the end of the seventeenth inning the score was: Schaefer 52S; Hoppe. 42S.
 The Balls Faulty
 Schaefer, Hoppe and the. referee decided the balls were faulty and they were changed before Schaefcr shot.
 They arc 'bumpy'," Jake explain ed, saying saying he and Hoppe could not draw or masse with them.
 Schaefer scored with the new balls, Hoppe missed and so did Sehaefer Hoppe again scored q blank for his nineteenth inning.
 The new balls seemed to roll true and respond perfectly and Schaefer got the best run Of the block to that time, 70, mixing masses. close nursing and table length drives, all perfectly 1 timed and controlled. Most Of his | play was close to the left anchor | block at the head of the table. He | missed when he made a lineup snot, | but forced the ball into an unpayable position.
 Hoppe also seemed to be gaining confidence with the new set of worries and ran S5. Hoppe, by excellent shot making, overcame what at times ap- peared 10 be faulty judgment of speed | although at S4, when ball took crazy roll, Hoppe shook his head. in. dieating the balls were still unsatis- factory He missed cushion shot after getting S5. Score at the end of the twentieth inning. Schacfer 594, Hoppe 5l3.
 h the twenty-llrst inning Schaefer found things to his liking, after a lucky kiss saved him from a miss or his fifth shot and he counted fifty, finally missing on q cross table bank.
 Both Get Poor Leaves
 Ioppo was left a poor shot and could not gain control of the balls, after four. He left Jake an shot, the challenger miss ing and apparently returning the Both joined the crowd in laughing at the leaves. Hoppe made the shot. however, and ran total of twelve before missing an apparently easy shot
 Jake got only one, failing to drive q ball out of balk on his second shot. the first such mishap Of the night. Hoppe got twenty-one before missing both balls on a masse. Score: Schae- fer, 645; Hoppe $50.