Modern Billiards by Benjamin Garno

Author:Benjamin Garno [Garno, Benjamin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781580935265
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Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: 2020-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Schaefer Forfeits to Sexton. Match of three games, 1000 points each in New York, Chicago and St. Louis, for $2,000 a side, highest aggregate score to decide. Schaefer side incurred forfeit through failure to make the final deposit, July 3d.

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First 1000 Points in a Night. Three-ball. Turner’s Hall, Chicago, November 20th.—$500 a side. Slosson, 1000—25.64—293; Schaefer, 739—217.

1879.

Second Championship of the World. Cooper Institute, N. Y. City, January 23d to February 10th.—Tournament for the J. M. Brunswick & Balke Co.’s emblem and $2,100 in cash, 600–point games. Slosson had the highest run by 19 per cent., and the best general average by 25 per cent.; but it was against him that Daly made the best run of his life, and his defeat of Slosson placed the latter in a position from which he could extricate himself only by vanquishing Schaefer twice. Instead, Schaefer beat him at once (600 to 571 in seven innings), after it had seemed almost certain that Slosson would win in five or six innings, and by about 600 to 200. There was only one play-off, Sexton beating Daly. The seven games apiece averaged 16.10, which, while lower than the figures of earlier tournaments, was yet higher than the general averages of all the contestants in this one but Slosson, Schaefer, and Daly. Only half the single averages in the appended table, viz., those of Schaefer, Daly, Gallagher, and Rudolphe, are winning ones. This proved to be the last tournament at the regular three-ball game to command the presence of first-class experts in America.

W. R. Av. G. A.

Schaefer ($1,000) 7 376 85.71 28.19

Slosson ($600) 5 464 81.57 37.60

Sexton ($300) 4 214 45.   14.86

Daly ($200) 4 370 30.   18.76

Garnier 3 220 36.75 14.67

Gallagher 3 187 20.   13.89

Rudolphe 1 159 15.   10.52

Heiser 1 158 12.26 8.44

There was but one match for this championship, together with a money-stake of $1,000 a side. It occurred in McCormack’s Hall, Chicago, May 15th. Schaefer, 1000—333.33—690; Slosson, 44—21.

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