Word: billiard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Welker Cochran of San Francisco: the world's three-cushion billiard championship; by beating John Layton, ten times titleholder, 50 to 33, in the deciding match; at Chicago. It was the first three-cushion tournament Cochran, balkline champion in 1928, had ever entered. Said he, after winning: "I'm sure I'm going to prefer balkline...
...sooner threw him out before the orchestra leader came over and complained about something. Seems that eight young men were helping him lead the band, and all of them were using billiard cues instead of batons...
Patient, painstaking Alfred David Lenz dropped dead in the streets of Havana in 1926, of heart failure brought on by malaria and long breathing of acid fumes. "I want to leave my bones where they won't be worried about," he said. "They won't even make good billiard balls." Last week the National Sculpture Society held an important meeting in New York. Entrusted to it for the free use of all sculptors were all the secret methods and formulae by which Alfred Lenz revived a lost art of bronze casting and earned the title 20 years...
Entries for the billiard, ping-pong, and pool tournaments at the Union for all interested Freshmen will close Thursday night. The tournaments have been organized by the 1936 Union Committee and each one is under the direction of one member of the Committee...
Three tournaments in indoor sports for Freshmen have been scheduled for the winter season in the Union. Pingpong, pool, and billiard matches will be played, with a silver trophy as the prize for the champion in each division. Entries for the contests close on December...