Show GARDNER LEADS IN TOURNAMENT Passaic Has Pour Four Straight Victories to His Credit W ile S burg Has Three WRIGHT HAS HIGHEST RUN p STANDING OF PLAYERS UP TO DATE S Chicago March W Gard Gardner tier ner of Passaic N J has the lead to tonight tonight night in the amateur billiard tournament having four vIctories to his credit with without without out a loss J F Poggenburg of New NewYork NewYork York also has a percentage of 1000 1000 but buthe buthe he has only taken part In three games Two games wore were played tOday The afternoon game between Harry Wright of San Francisco and Calvin Demarest of ChIcago brought out the best billiards ot of the tournament so far The standing of at the players at the con conclusion of play follows Won Lost Gardner 4 o 0 Poggenburg 3 0 Wright 2 2 Demarest 2 2 Conklin o 0 3 Norris 0 4 Best single average or of th the tournament 16 1218 held jOintly by Wright and get burg High run made by Wright Harry Wright of San Francisco In de defeating defeating Calvin Demarest of Chicago made a high record for the tournament by making a run of and tied the In Individual average of at 16 1219 made yester yesterday yesterday day by W F Poggenburg The final score was to 63 It took Wright innings to run the game out and out of the points were made In the last two to In Innings innings For the first sixteen Innings his stroke was bad and his judgment on cushion shots was poor Demarest also left the balls in difficult positions At the end of the sixteenth Inning Wrights score was and that of his opponent When WrIght opened the seventeenth Inning he started in with great deliberation studying every shot carefully His control of the balls seemed to be perfect until the sixty fourth point had been scored when they became frozen In the corner He chose to spot the othe balls and then continued clIckIng of off billiards until he had rolled up the highest run In the tournament meat ment SO far exceeding high run rim by 15 In the seventeenth trial Demarest made five and missed and then Wright fin finished finished the game with a run of 72 Demarest played a brilliant game as his average of 16 15 Indicates making a run of 75 in his eighth inning Summary HIgh Total Run Aver Wright 16 Demarest 2 7 75 Gardner won tonight from Norris Sum jurry High Total Run Aver Gardner 41 2446 6 Norris 36 5 |