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...morning ... we were discussing Peterson. Up spoke one guy (a football player, with a "scholarship"). "I don't know," he said . . . "whether this would have anything to do with it ... but when we moved the tables in the afternoon-I forgot to balance Peterson's table. . . ." Any billiard player who can make the shots Peterson did on a screwy table is okay for my money...
...brilliantly executed force masse puts such heavy "English"* (spinning motion) on the cue ball that it clears a path, spins to the side rail, reverses back to the end rail, where it loops several times and meets the second object ball near the corner for a completed three-cushion billiard...
Charlie's Empty House. Charlie was born in Milwaukee, became an elevator boy at the Republican House when he was 13, rarely left its billiard room. Instead of firing him, the manager ordered his proficient boy employe to play with well-paying guests, and he soon became the favorite of billiard-playing Actors Joseph Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, Willian Collier, Kate Emmett. He watched the distinguished and dazzling performances of billiard greats Jake Schaefer Sr. and Frank Ives. While still uniformed after his return from the Spanish-American War, Peterson took a beating from beknickered Willie Hoppe...
...Louis hosted both the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and the world's foremost cue artists, became the billiard center of the world. Peterson opened a billiard parlor, brought the game to all sexes and ages...
...suffered a spine injury in an auto accident (1910), lay in a plaster cast for seven months. His first act after being discharged was to rush to his billiard rooms and grab a cue. He was as good as ever-but only for a few minutes at a time. He worked on fancy shots, mastered the mysteries of angles and ballspin, became the game's Fancy Dan, a combination cue-and-ivory Houdini and amiable Billy Sunday, who evangelized for the game...