Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago no gentleman built a country house without putting in a billiard room. Now those billiard rooms have been turned into breakfast rooms, gun rooms, dens. Billiards, no longer smart, is played and watched now only by people who really like it. In no sport except championship golf is there the same concentration of spectators on a delicate feat of skill, the success of which depends entirely on nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening...
...long time U. S. players have held most of the world's billiard championships...
After this exhibition match the two billiard masters will give an exhibition of intricate "trick shooting." In their match in the Twentieth Century Club of Boston last week, Cochran defeated Schafer by a 3600-3481 score. As this was just a challenge game, however, Schafer still holds the title...
Such restriction is set up because famed billiard players are too talented. Without balklines they cunningly collect the three balls near a cushion and "nurse" them endlessly . . . click click . . . click click . . . scoring indefinitely...
Schaefer, former champion, son of famed "Wizard" Jake Schaefer, one of the greatest experts of billiard history, led and increased his lead. Late in the match he saw Cochran score 196 points in a run; was not impressed. Schaefer is the only player alive who has run out a tournament match "from spot," not permitting his opponent (Hagenlacher, 1925) a turn at the table. Cochran was not unduly proud; once in championship play he ran 407 points. Neither played as well as he knows how. Cochran, stocky, abrupt, lost the world's championship to slim, catlike Schaefer, 1,500 points...