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Show SUTTON WINS TITLE BY DEFAULT FROM SCUAEFER Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. Ff-b. 7. Georgi- F. SIok- ,30)1. who has challenged Sutton for Ihc 18.1 balkllno billiard championship, was the first player to hold that title. Slos-soii Slos-soii won the championship in the first 18.1 tourriiimcnt. which was played at Madison Square Garden hi 1S97, his op-poueiitB op-poueiitB being Schaefer, Ives. Daly' aul Sutton. Schaefer beat. Slosson for tho title on February 5. 1898. Ives took the championship from Schaefer in a match plaved on April I. 1S9S. Ives turned back the' emblem, nnd the 'championship lapsed until December 2. 1901, when another world's championship tournament was I won by Schaefer. competing with Slosson. Slos-son. Rarutel. Dutton. Mornlngstar and Howison. Sutton took tho title by d- 1 fault In France on October 30, 1903, Schaefer failing to cover a forfeit. Vig-nniix Vig-nniix beat Sutton In. a ehamplnililp match at Paris, March 4. 1901. Iloppe defeated ViguaiiN In Paris on January 15. 190G; He successfully defended the title In a matrli with Slosson on Mureh 27. 190G. and against Schaefer on October 17. 190G. Iloppe forfeited his title and went to Holland In 1907. lie i-amo back and was defeated bv Schaefer In a match at Chicago Chi-cago on March 11.- 190S. Sutton challenged Schaefer and another default gave hlin tho tillo again. |