Word: billiardist
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...tune, Hurrah for Our National Game (1896), sums up the feeling of America's early baseball fans: The Gamester may boast of the pleasures of play, The Billiardist brag of his cue, The Horse jocky gabble of next racing...
...Zanzibar ivory balls rolling smoothly over the green baize. Eleven years later Hoppe, using the same queer sidearm stroke, defeated the long-haired, elegant French champion, Maurice Vignaux, in the bespangled ballroom of Paris' Grand Hotel to become at 18 the world's champion 18.1 balkline billiardist...
...alley promotion campaign was logical. Chief form of promotion known to the old regime was to subsidize nearly all top bowling and billiard* players. The new, having found these hirelings expensive and unproductive, retains only a few, makes them work for their pay. One of the few: Trick Billiardist Charley Peterson, who has lectured on billiards at Harvard, whose business card reads "show me a shot I can't make." Sample Peterson shot: standing a half-dollar on its rim between two cubes of chalk in the centre of the table, sending it to the cushion and back between...
Married. Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, 25, famed woman athlete, 1932 Olympic Games track & field star, expert basketball player, golfer, javelin thrower, hurdler, high jumper, swimmer, baseball pitcher, football halfback, billiardist, tumbler, boxer, wrestler, fencer, weight lifter, adagio dancer; and George Zaharias, 29, heavyweight wrestler; in St. Louis...
...knickerbockers. He has held every title in billiards, although now he holds only the 18.1 balk line and the cushion carom. A quiet, smiling little man, he enjoys telling of the time at the turn of the century when Mark Twain watched him play a great billiardist named Sutton. Except for one inning in which he could not score, young Billiardist Hoppe sat tranquilly aside watching Sutton run out the block. As Sutton clicked off the final point, Mark Twain solemnly stepped over and shook young Hoppe by the hand. "I want to congratulate you, William," said...