Show Champ Ties forI for First in Title I Cue Tournament CHICAGO Jan 19 UP Arthur UP-Arthur Arthur hurnblad T Ch Chicago ca o defending champion champion cham charri- p pion ion and Johnny La Layton ton Sed Sedalia alia Mo former titleholder titleholder title title- holder were tied for first place as the worlds world's three three- cushion billiard championship entered entered en en- its second 4 N stage toda today P 44 The two opening z games last night at al Musse Mussey's s billiard A room saw Thurn 4 blad rated n ninth nth choice in m the betting bet ting odds at 15 1 t triumph r i u m p h over Young Bud Wes thus hus t St Sl Louis boy bOj playing in his first t tournament 50 32 in 65 innings and Layton rated second choice at odds of at 3 3 1 win from Leonard Kenney Chicago 50 27 in 36 innings The eight players out of ot the field of 12 considered the greatest collection collection tion of three-cushion three ever gathered for the highest stakes ever posted were scheduled to play their first matches this afternoon and to to- night Afternoon matches Otto Olto Philadelphia former champion champions vs s J. J N. N Bozeman Vallejo Cal winner of ot the 1931 western title Allen Hall Chicago 1931 runner runner- up upS vs S F F. S. S Scoville Buffalo N. N Y winner 1930 and 1931 eastern title Night matches Augie Chicago nine times champion vs Gus Copulos Copulas Eugene Eugene Eu Eu- gene Ore contender for tor 10 years Jake Schaefer San Francisco worlds world's champion vs Tiff Denton Kansas City former champion Layton who once was the worlds world's pocket billiard champion defeated Kenney 50 to 27 in 36 innIngs The veteran had a n hi high h run un of eight Kenneys Kenney's Kenneys Kenney's Kenneys Ken Ken- ney's highest run w was s four Kenney tied the score at 33 3 in the fourth inning but the haired curly-haired MIssourian for forged ed ahead after that and never was seriously threatened aga again n. n In Iii the fourteenth inning a run of six gave Layton an 18 to 7 lead and in the twenty-sixth twenty he made his high run of ot eight to put him ahead 39 to 20 Kenney got his last point in the thirty-fifth thirty inning scoring one and Layton won von the thirty-sixth thirty with an unfinished run of two |