Show FIRST PRIZE FOR WILLIE VILLIE HOPPE Boy Beat All the Old Vets in the Chicago I Tournament I SUTTON IN SECOND PLACE SCHAEFER AND CURE CURES S TIED i Chicago May lay 12 Willie Hoppe the boy 00 billiard lilliard expert won the first prize in the professional tournament which was fin finished finished shed tonight in Orchestra ball hall Hoppe went through h his four games without a ainie avine vine inie defeat George Sutton the Cana Canadian Canadian Canadian dian champion captured second place having hayIng three victories ories to his credit and andone andone andone one defeat The rhe other three players deorge eorge who won the champion Mip in the recent tournament in New Nework NewYork York ork Louis Cure the French champion ind nd Jake Schaefer finished with a triple I tie each e ch player having won one game and lost three These three players ors will I trot get an equal division of third and fourth money oney mone m Although finishing finI in second place Sit Sut tou scored the highest total average for fort fori i t f p tournament 9 1559 Hoppe who I roke the worlds record for high run runt t linch lo inch billiards balk in his hIsame fame ame with Schafer last night had the sf best grand average a 7 After a rather listless game ame this after i pon p on between Hoppe and which h l he the th youngster won the tournament v up tonight with one of the most t matches of the entire series seris The contestants were Sutton and f rr I r and Sutton won within seven seen innings b uy by the score of to In Jn the fifth firth in inning fling ning Schaefer Just lacked three points DOl ts of being 60 IiO ahead of his He ban bad completed the th period with a 11 ru run of 10 04 and looked at sit that time t JO be th win winner npr ner of the match Sutton scared ton ten in his fifth trial and Schaefer followed foll wed with witha Ith Itha a cipher The Canadian then th n ran 23 points of as pretty billiards as were ever seen His shot was a difficult masse which he missed by a fraction of an inch This big biS run put him nearly points ahead of or Schaefer who got four and missed and that was his last chance as Sutton came back baek with a run of oC Ii and finished the game Buttons Suttons aver average averIl average age Il e was as 71 37 2037 20 37 Following Is s 8 a table of or the tournament Games Games High Grand Name Kame Won Lost Runs Aver Hoppe 4 ft 27 72 I 7 Sutton S X 1 2 IS 51 J 1 I 3 14 16 5 Cure 1 3 1 IS Schaefer 1 3 t 10 1 IS It SMS 56 Total points scored during tournament divided as follows Hoppe Ho Pe 2003 S Stat Statton t ton 1726 1730 1589 Schaefer 1299 Cure 1252 lIS Total innings and grand average v for tournament 21 1 Hoppe defeated Schaefer Sut Sutton Sutton Sutton ton and ana Cure Sutton defeated Cure Cur Schaefer and defeated Cure Schaefer defeated and Cure Cur defeated Schaefer |