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...world championship at the more difficult game of 18.1 balkline.* Since then he has consistently held the world's best players at bay. Age has not noticeably withered Willie's wizard touch with a cue. Now a silver-haired 65, he holds his twelfth world three-cushion bilHard title (TIME, March 17). Along Willie's ivory-clicking way, he won 39 other world championships, and set exhibition records that may never be equaled (e.g., an 18.1 balkline run of 622; 25 points in a row in the difficult three-cushion game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Master Retires | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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