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Show LOYD JEVNE DEFEATS MORLEY AND SCHIFF Ioyd Jevno ended his engagement at Morley's billiard palace yesterday with tho two best games yet played In the rooms, taking J, B. Schlffs measure in the afternoon by 50 to 27, In forty-throe Innings, and Bavlng tho evening game with Morley by a single point In a sensational sensa-tional finish after clghty-slx Innings, sayH Saturdays Los Angeles Times. There was a fla:$hlng procession in tho Schlff game, led always by tho ex-cham-plon, who mado ono run of ten, one of five, and nix runs of three points each, and went out with an nverage of 1.16 the best over mado in Los Angeles or on the coast, so far as known, and the boat made by Jovne himself within three yearn. Schlff made one run of five, playing well abovo the average In making his twenty-seven twenty-seven billiards, Tho game with Morley started slowly, both men using great care In blocking tho opponent. Tho scoro was tied at six point In lho fifteenth Inning, at eight in tho twentieth, and at twenty-3lx in the fifty-seventh. Morley had pulled down a lead of eight points to mako this tie. but Jcvno again left him, holding ten points lead in tho soventy-slxth round. Here Morley sustained sus-tained liis reputation for nerve by drawing up to another tie at forty-nine points in the eighty-fifth, losing his fifty by a hair, but leaving the balls in a fairly safo position. posi-tion. The second object ball lay against tho mlddlo side cushion, but Jevna described the great dipper in tho course of his cup ball, and hit tho red in the conter. Morley Mor-ley Iwd mado the best fight of any local man against tho former champion. |