Salt Lake Herald | 1906-03-16 | Page 7 | Gardner and Poggenberg

GARDNER AND Two Men Tied for First Place in the Amateur Billi Billiard rd Tournament Cl Chicago cago March Gardner ot of Passaic N 3 r and j r F ot of New York at the end of play In the amateur billiard tournament were tied for fIrst place both players hay hav having haying ing won three games since the tournament tournament ment started Neither of these men has lost a game gaple and the Indications are that the chain cham championship will wUl be decided when they cross cu cues standing of the tre players In games won and lost Won Lost 3 0 Gardner 3 0 2 1 Wright 1 2 0 3 Norris 0 3 Clavin of Chicago defeated Charles S Norris Of New York In th the first game today Summery High Total tun Average Demurest 30 66 6 U n 1426 Norris orris 23 5 45 of New eVl York not only made tine the highest run so far made In the tour tournament tournament In the second game today but buthe buthe he made the highest average defeating Wright of san Francisco o bY a score or of to In the eleventh Inning fnnIng he got the balls together and rolled up be before before fore he lost control of them exceedIng by one point the rUn made by bj Wright yesterday At t the end of the tenth was 72 2 but It required only eight innIngs additional for tor hIm to finIsh the gamo gam making his average 16 His playIng durIng th the last eight innings wasby was wasby by far the best seen In the tournament md and elicited d great applause from the spec spectators His other high runs were ro 40 g 39 31 and 28 Wright was able to collect 32 each in the third and fourth Innings jS 28 In thA t twelfth and 36 In the seven seventeenth but the remainder of his runs were all in one figure High I Total R Run n A Average F nb rg 16 1213 Wright 16 36 1618 3 In game Gardner of Passaic N T J defeated t Conklin of Chicago last years champion High Total Run Ru Average Gardner 88 33 13 1422 Conklin 2111 52 91 9 21