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Show OGDEN CUEISTS SUFFER DEFEAT Commercial Club Billiard! Players Pile Up Big Score on Ogdenites (Special T'Lspatchi SALT LAKE, March 11. Billiard! sharks of Hip Salt Iake Cnmm.-rcia I club Cinched the inter-clty champhn-ship champhn-ship matclies with the players of the u hi r club ot i igucn nere mnipm o i capturing the six final events on the jcar.l at three cushion billiards wln- nmK out with .1 grand total of 2159 to ii 969. a margin of 220 points ,or 19S 'points more than they totaled In the IflrM matches staged at 1 'gden last I week. By trimming the Ogdenites the Bali Lake players win the second leg on the (challenge cup. the Rdcnltc; belnn un,.rs in the initial play during the 11921 season. UPSETS RE4 Kii " Tepitn die big score rolled up by the S.iU I.aker.v the Ogden players battled bat-tled their rivals to the end and deserve de-serve considerable credit for their efforts. ef-forts. Several upsets were recorded durlni? the evenings play, In the three-cushion event Lawrence Ridges of i (d ii met defeat at tlu hands of W H. Boothe, L'.j to 18. In 1921 Ridges turned in a to 14 victory over Boothe Ridges holds the state amateur threi -cushion title and hi9 defeat at the hands of Boothe came as' a big surprise. The match in the three-cushion class between J. P. Nye of ugden and j F. o Scudder of Salt J.ake was hotly oontestod from start to finish, the Qg-.lenlt, Qg-.lenlt, losini; "'I to 2C. S I I I LKJ I . l S II I VI' At the end of the afternoons play at stralRht rail the Salt Iikeri, forged ahead of the Ogden players with a margin of six points, ail of the games being hotly conte-yte.l The feature match in straight rail iwa-5 played between Al Hestmarli of 'ogden an.i Clarence kfilner of Salt Lake, Hestmark won bv one point Ithe score being 100 to ;i9 I-awren. 0 Ridges piled up the largest score In 'this phase of the entertainment Winning Win-ning 1"" to ii. from A. V, Klpp. When the evening' i. matches got under un-der way the Salt l,..k rv held a 28-i 28-i point advantage but their clean SWOOP j In the three-cushion play gave them iii tremendou:' bad which the ogdenites ogden-ites were unable to overcome. Despite i this severe handicap the igden play-I play-I crs battled until the final point had been (allied and won the admiration of the crowd, which whs su'd to be the largest that ever witnessed a tourney tour-ney of M s nature at the Commercial club Scores of men and women of Salt Lake and Ogden were in attendance. attend-ance. Kl t lis ( 1 1 M T HI - The results follow Straight rail: J. P, Ridjfei Salt Lake, defeated Robert Proudflt. ogden. og-den. 100 to 71: A. V Klpp Salt Lake, met defeat at tlu- hands of Uwrenc1 Kldgo.- ivu t" Al Hestmark won trom Clarence Mllner of Salt Lake. 100 lo 99. W, 11. Boothe won from Harry Gee, Ogden, 10o to 81; E W. Chenowetb lost to J. B. Nye, 100 to 83, and B B. I'helps defeated Richard Leek, i ipden. 100 to 80. Three-. u.-.hlon W. tt. Boothe. Salt Lake, defeated Lawrence Ridges. 25 to 18; H. S. Fabian defeated Al Hest-iiiark! Hest-iiiark! gden. 25 t,. 19. Clarence Mllner Mll-ner defeated Ir. 11. M- RoWe. 25 10 18. V. i). Scudder b-f-ited -I B. Nye ogden. 23 to 20; IS. w Chenoweth won from Harry Gee. 25 to 1. M. D Browr defeated (Jage Rodman. 25 to 11. |