Show THREE I NOW TIED ID a IN t BILLIARD Blip TITLE ILE Mayer Gardner and Conklin I Have Clean Slates So Far i j NEW AVERAGE RECORD Philadelphia Pa April 1 Jos Joseph Joseph ph Mayer of ot Brooklyn n and E Z W. W Gar Gardner ner 0 of East Enst Ora Orange go N. N J. J won 1 matches in tn the class class' A A. amateur championship billiard to tournament ot of Of the tho National Association of Billiard Players today and are aro now tied ua for fOI for first place with Charles F. F Conklin of ot Chicago each hoNing having won four games and lost none nona In defeating Dr Walter E. E r hehner In th th night game Same Mayer es es established s a a. new but best n average rago record for tor the tournament completing hl string in the eighteenth inning This Thin made mado his hisa a average a rage 22 4 18 nearly five points on nn inning better than the the the- 5 former best av average raco of ot 17 9 23 made I Iby b by C Conklin In lost last nights night's play pla- T Mayer played the best game of ot billiards billiards bil bU- bil- bil Hl over ever seen at the Union league according to man many of ot the experts ho witnessed th tho tita match He made only seven points In tho the first three innings but had a run of 84 8 In tho the fourth Irom From the tue fifth to the sixteenth Inning he did not have a blank and made mado two two runs of ot 66 one of at 51 61 l and one of 36 Dr was unable to get the tile balls together after the seventh Inning wh when n ho had a run of ot 32 In the fifteenth Inning he not only failed tailed to o add to his Ills score but lost losta a a. point when attempting to draw his y cue ball bail from tho the rail it pass passed d be between between between be- be tween both object balls Perc Percy Collins gave Gardner by far tar the hardest game Same the tho latter has had bad to In tile the tournament The Tho match was nip and tuck until the twenty- twenty J fourth Inning Gardner took th tb lead with runs rung of at 26 88 and 2 23 early inthe inthe Inthe in the game but Collins responded with strings of at 41 41 51 and 19 In Ip the twenty fourth Inning Gardner Gardn secured a a. lead lend of at twenty five points f when ho he ma made e a run of 62 6 and ana kept ahead until the end of ot the game The Tho closeness of the th score prevented olther I hr nf f th thA r rs from any chances S 'S Sa a- a and ad d m much fi- fi 8 safety fei pi play y was was Indulged In In the thirty-fifth thirty Inning Inning innIng Inn Inn- ing when Gardner needed ceded only ninepoints nino nine points to complete his string he failed to get JeL the sails bans out of r balk after atter hi his second shot and he was obliged to 1 end tho the Inning for fat a a. t total of only two Mayer Major and antl Conklin meet meat tomorrow 1 I will b be J nl night ht The Tho afternoon game between en Collins Collins' and Duniway |