| Show WP 7 i H WORLD OF SPORT L 1 I FINISHES to STRING t. t IN FIVE INNINGS i. i V George Sutton Averages TOO TOOm m in Wonderful Exhibition of Billiard Playing flaying iri HOPPE HAD HARDLY BEGUN K Champion Secures Only HH 18 III In Mulch High nun Kim of ur It 31 jl I lII JI hung up Ii II by Master la I Now York ork April 17 Georgo o Sul- Sul ton tou-of tou oC this city whose whoso ability as ns an f expert Is on both sides oj 01 th the Atlantic played a s sensational sensa game Kama tonight In the thc worlds world's championship 1 82 billiard tournament anti and defeated Willie Hoppe the thc champion h by 11 a i iscore score o of to lo uS It II was as th the shortest horte t and anti fastest game ame s. s so o far iLL played In the thO tournament lasting through only five innings timIngs an and occupied 1 one ono hour hoUt an and thirty live minutes Sutton by winning in five fi innings established an average cl of oC which is just double that of or the former ormel worlds world's 1 record ma made o h by Maurice VIgnaux o of France r a about out four years ngo igo The rue highest t run ever made In competition I fl at nt billiards was 2 which Is accredited to Louis Cure of ot France FIance i lie made this score a about out eighteen months ago ngo In a match with Jake Schaefer of Chicago which was play play- played cd ed in fn Paris Tonight Suttons Sutton's hIgh run lUIl was an unfinished which f If the Iho OI opportunity ha hat had presented It Itself itsel ho certainly would woul have extended fa far beyond Cures Cure's record of oC 5 Nothing to to tn It BUl Sutton As g to the game ame Itself U it only lasted live five Innings it ft certainly was one sid sid- i I ud d. d Hoppe started off after ar the bank with ell cloven caroms caronis and aini Sut Sut- Tv 1 ton Ion taking advantage o of a good O leaveC leave ee gave gito C an exhibition of oC his famous balk balkY I Y line illie an and space nursing minting for or a run Iun o of I 18 2 In his Ills second inning Hoppe seI se- se c I cured fifty and ancl in the third a added ed 53 to lo his hi total Sutton III in lh the meanwhile t made fourteen in Iii his second hilling Inning drew lre ji Jt blank in th the tho thud third Th The score COIC at Ht this stale stage of the con contest lest was t I J i 12 1 42 12 to lo t J I 11 1 1 11 h in Iii Suttons Sutton's favor or made J In III hIs hla fourth Iii Inning and left a ii promising promising- opening for I bullon The hI Juliet II I quickly took ad- ad I e Unx of tilt tIll situation and started J Journey journo which netted him him hm I II J I If PJ points ponts bringing h Ills his total lot u up UI to I tG Tho rho shot hot which ended 1 this run Iun I Inac nl il nac mo at nl close ranKo u tt l In hi a I n Und ith ii ace e of or eight inches Hoppo only 1 ail ridded el four filtH to lo his s oro when hen henhe h ho he had to make way for or Sutton In the Inning which proved 10 to be lie thelast thelast the last of th the game Croud 11 t a al at l It f When hen Sutton ulton reached the thc first Blost hundred hun hun- I dred drel of his last run he was greeted with whIt thunderous rouA applause and when he ht continued to the second hundred the spectators stood up and che cheered During this demonstration It was im impossible un- un pO possible for Sutton to play lay and ho he began be he- gan fixing hi his cue while Hoppe sat in itt ina chair a t-l then laughingly congratulated 4 ed ell Sutton and when the significance of If this lItis became become known Imo to the audience the Iho dl cheering ring broke out afresh Sutton Sutton Sut Sut- ton tun then them had thirty-four thirty more mor caroms r to hi in order urdel to win and ind n he got goth h th those W In order When Sutton ullon ran Un out the game in inan an LU unfinished run Iun of or 3 t Hoppe was wa the first to lo congratulate the victor and andi i Sutton said lit ht that no mattel matter who Wh won the thc championship trophy It would re revert ye- ye vert VIt to him within the next two Vo i months month H Ho To reiterated the statement which h ho he made yesterday lo to the effect ef of- fcc that thal h he had not had time to ho prepare for 01 or the tournament in inthe the brief ce which between between be he- tween his Ids arrival nl here herp from front the continent eon con 31 and the beginning of oC the tho conte contest contest con con- te test t last week werle Scores SooreN Sutton tOO son sonac Av ac lIlge high run 23 H. H 1 Pl 1 1 R average 23 3 5 3 high runs 53 no ro 11 I ISlo i SQ JI Still Winning In to today's oday's ay matinee maUIU game Jam George tt- tt F. F of oC If this ell city defeated Albert JI G. G Cutlet Culler of or Boston h by a score of BOO tn to 1 which was his fourth consecutive conRee- conRee d victory in the tournament loK- loK wm ICon now flAw loads all 11 tho lh other player a as aJI hi he hi- hi ho hn not lost n a game so far Today's cont t tVaN was VaN rather low ilow notwithstanding the fact that 4 made 14 I points i 1 In his first four foul t in lIe Ho took thirty four ro Innings lo to and In UtE complete the GOO points made madl only c last hint six Ib innings Inning M he th live lIP Ills lest best run was four ninety InthE In thE tho I nty- nty Cutler played u a t. t peculiar game mc as ho ie had several barren barron bar bal ron ren innings readied double figures In e lIe Ho ga n a line exhibition line In his hit of or ills his of balk tenth Inning when he lit mn made l a run of ninety Ho lie nUJ P s several attempts leader but with the tho T to got cot l even on p lion always hold boll a n safe lead t- t OI a average rase 14 24 24 4 hl high h un tI 91 1 40 V I Cutler IG average 10 33 10 high 1 runs 91 53 33 |
