Show COCHRAN LOSES FIRST MATCH S TU HOPPE Cue Champ Plays Great reat Billiards in the First V Block BOSTO BOSTON Jan 11 By A. A P. P P. rj Willie Hoppe worlds world's champion billiard player won the first block of ot othis his 1500 point three night match with Welker Cochran challenger last night to Cochran playing brilliantly I at times failed as conspicuously as aa others having a a. total of ot six aix blank in innings in- in f norm norr STREAKS OUT OLT Cochran won the lag In two shots he had gathered the balls at the head of ot the t table ble lIe He went vent out at six on an easy mas masse e leaving the balls in good position when Hoppe took tho the table Hoppe playing wonderful billiards clicked off oft thirty five points With a I masterly three cushion drive he score scored his thirty-sixth thirty point and gathered the balls bails along the left rail lie He then proceeded proceeded pro pro- to roll 1011 up twenty-three twenty more points The balls were grouped In a I cluster at the foot of ot the tho table as his lun run reached fifty Hoppes Hoppe's run reached ninety before he missed a a. difficult masse with the balls bails lined up in a row alon along the rail at the foot toot of ot the table Cochran had a good lay and clicked off oCt nine points At the beginning of ot the eleventh In Inning Inning inning In- In ning Cochran got the balls together at atthe atthe atthe the foot of ot the table with two masterly open table shots After Atter running thir thir- three ty-three he drove the balls around the tho table and at thirty eight again had them In good position at the bottom of ot the rail The run reached fifty eight Left with a a. bad lineup he played a beautiful one-cushion one carom and the therun therun therun run continued He passed seventy-five seventy and was going strong Hoppe won out with an unfinished run of ot three forty-three in the nineteenth In In- In ning fling Throughout he played consistently consistently consist consist- good billiards although only one of ot his runs in which he tallied points approached Cochrans Cochran's high run of oC 5 f The champion took the lead in In V th the opening inning when he ran ninety against six for tor the young Pacific coast player He lie was never overtaken V Cochran playing his best ran Inthe Inthe in inthe the eleventh inning and cut Hoppes Hoppe's lead to two thirty points but from the fifteenth inning to the end Hoppe set a apace apace apace pace which Cochran was vas unable to follow fol fol follow low I k h The score by innings V High runs and averages averages- Cochran Cochran-C G 24 12 0 0 0 17 0 1 2 0 0 o 0 0 2 85 55 45 3 4 23 23 High run average 19 15 19 i Hoppe Hoppe 90 90 0 14 7 47 0 10 Il 75 76 0 0 2 83 0 o 1 5 6 3 10 43 43 High run average 26 6 19 Hoppes Hoppe's last run was unfinished |