Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1918 — MAKES LONG BALK LINE RUN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAKES LONG BALK LINE RUN

Ora Morningstar Performs Unusual Feat in Contest at Detroit—Beats - Hoppe’s Record. _ Ora C. Morningstar, the latest addition to Detroit’s select family of billiard stars, gave another demonstra 1 tion of worth as a balk-liner ejj traordinary when he showed a run of 348 against one of Michigan’s leading amateurs. The match was to have a 300-point affair and Morningstar, in his third inning, continued to play until he missed on a difficult one-cushion across the table. In his effort to drive the object ball down the table and. back again into position, which complicated - the shot,

a kiss from the object ball on its return robbed him of the count by a narrow margin. However, he ran 488 points in three innings, showing runs of 40 and 100 in his first two times at the table, and averaging 102 2-3. This run is better than the best ever recorded in any match in this state. Hoppe’s 257 being the previous record in Michigan.