Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oklahoma's churchgoers were equally enraptured. Many Baptists were outraged when Bill Alexander introduced billiard tables and Sunday-night dances in his church recreation hall (to keep youngsters out of trouble, he explains). Others just plain disliked his flamboyance, thought a minister had no call to go riding around on elephants and making a holy show of himself. They remembered that he was once a nightclub master of ceremonies, that he had dressed up in a clawhammer coat and cowboy boots to marry Roy Rogers and Movie Actress Dale Evans. They didn't like his cross-country jaunting...
...playing field of London's Roe-hampton Club had been groomed to billiard-table smoothness for the 76th annual croquet (in England, rhymes with pokey) championship of the world. Four enterprising foreigners-two Irishmen, an Australian and a South African-had managed to get entered among the 41 starters. But they went down quietly, and after that it was an All-England affair. The finalists, tall, willowy 45-year-old defending Champion H. O. Hicks (five-time winner since 1932) and stout 60-year-old Geoffry Reckitt, put on what most spectators decided was an "awfully good show...
There can be little doubt that Harvard Square is considered a lucrative market by the higher-ups in local booking. The operator of a highly-legitimate pool and billiard hall on Holyoke Street was approached by five men "with propositions" in the scant three months that his place operated this winter. Three of these men offered to help him pay his rent every month if he would let them meet bettors there from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every afternoon. The other "businessmen" wanted to buy out the place and use it as a front. They offered $8000, which, although...
Died. Andrew Ponzi, 46, flashy wizard of the pool tables, three-time world pocket billiard champion (1935, '40, '43); of a heart ailment; in Philadelphia. Born Andrew D'Alessandro, he earned the lasting nickname "Ponzi" after "Get Rich Quick" Charles Ponzi, the Boston swindler, by nervily taking all challenges, habitually winning his bets...
...Captain Billiard Hughes has the cagiest, most mature game on the squad. One of his main assets is the ability to size up accurately his opponent's weaknesses. Consequently his cool play generally improves as the match progresses...