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...pocket billiards (vulgarly called "pool"), pale, dark-haired Ralph Greenleaf ranks about tops, has been champion most of the time for 15 years. Last week in Philadelphia Billiardist Greenleaf and lantern-jawed Billiardist Irving Crane each had eight victories and three defeats after a three weeks' tournament among twelve top-ranking players. In the eleventh inning of the playoff, Crane, having scratched five times, found himself with a total of minus one to Greenleaf's 49. Then Billiardist Greenleaf strode to the table and started sinking balls so fast that one had scarcely thudded into a pocket before...
...Sallow, pug-nosed, swaggering Welker Cochran, San Francisco billiardist: 400-to-139, with a high run of 217, his play-off match in the international 18.2 balk line billiards tournament, against skinny Erich Hagenlacher of Germany; in Chicago...
...investigate her abilities further. She played her nth round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer, basketball player, baseball pitcher, football halfback, a proficient billiardist, a clever tumbler, a boxer and wrestler, a fencer, weight lifter and adagio dancer, she could only be described by appalled reporters as a "wonder girl." Last week, Wonder Girl Didrikson had cause for wonderment herself. The Amateur Athletic Union suspended her from amateur competition...
Schaefer rates as one of the greatest exponents of billiards who ever wielded a cue. He is the pupil of his father, the late Jake Schaefer, often called by critics the greatest billiardist of all time: his education was completed under Willie Hoppe, a former champion...
...Union's restaurant. These men, numbering over five hundred, seek a club life which the Governing Board attempts to satisfy. Toward this end a pool and billiard room is maintained which is equalled by none in the Square. Under the direction of a professional billiardist excellent instruction free of charge is given. The charge for playing is lower than elsewhere in the Square...