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Show THREE MATCHES IN POCKET BILLIARDS PHILADELPHIA, De-. 2. Tn the closest clos-est match so far played here in the national na-tional American pocket billiard championship champion-ship tournament, Joseph Concannon of Xew York tonight defeated Bonis D. Kretiter of Xew York, 1L'5 to 12'6. Con-cannon's Con-cannon's high run was 32 and Kreu-ter's Kreu-ter's 21. ; Jerome Keog of Rochester, N Y.. defeated de-feated Charles Setback of Hartford. Conn., li'j to 1SS, in one. of the afternoon matehes, and in the other Morris D. Fink of Philadelphia won from Edward 1. Ralph of High ts town, N. J., 12.", to 56. John M. Layton of Columbia, Mo., defeated de-feated James Ma turn of Denver in the second eame tonight. 12f to 121. in out of the most remarkable contests ever seen in this city. The match went thirty innings. in-nings. Early in tho game Dayton made his high run of 40, the score at this point being 9 to 2 ti in his favor. Matr.ro then collected 34 each in two successive runs, bringing him within two points of his opponent. When the score was 321 to 110 in Dayton's favor the Columbia player made three sera tches in one play and thereby forfeited fifteen balls-, putting Mature four points ahead. Maturo then wen to 121 and on his next shot Dayton ran out. |