Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back from Belgium to the U. S. rolled the world's 18.2 balkline billiard championship. Jake Schaefer of Chicago, champion before and son-of-a-champion, beat Welker Cochran of Hollywood in the deciding match, 400 to 328. Both finalists had first to defeat Kinrey Matsuyama, adroit "Japanese Molecule" (TIME, Feb. 18). Several players beat 1928 Champion Edward Horemans...
Just two inches taller than his 57-inch billiard cue, Kinrey Matsuyama casts a giant shadow upon the green-baize background of billiards. Two years...
Washington he finished seventh and last in the world's championship 18.2 balkline billiard tournament, winning not a game. Last week he began the 1929 tournament in New York by vanquishing Edouard Horemans, of Belgium, the sleek, wavy-haired, temperamental titleholder, 400 to 292. Then he outcued Felix Grange of France, then Eric Hagenlacher of Germany. His chances of winning seemed so good that he calmly announced: "I really believe that I'll go right through the field...
Handicapped by lack of reach and dapperling hands, Matsuyama came by his skill psychologically. He learned the game in Japan, where its finicky precision is enormously popular among a precise people. In Tokyo, before the last earthquake, there were 321 billiard halls full of grave little yellow men studying the motions of two white balls...
...billiard championship means a $6,000 salary for a year, during which the title need not be defended; $2,500 in cash; a percentage of the championship tournament receipts; a diamond emblem; several thousands of dollars in fees for exhibition matches...