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...almost every game, someone tried to bring off the difficult "boast shot". It called for the geometric precision of a three-cushion billiard shot, the ball caroming sharply from one side wall to the other and dropping dead off the front one. Properly executed, it is one of the most difficult shots in squash racquets to return. (An impossible shot to return: a "nick," which hits at the floor-line of one of the side or back walls and rolls out with no bounce...
...billiard and four pool tables will be installed in the newly painted second floor room. Several animal heads on the walls will watch the snooker players in their new surroundings...
...Yardling billiard players will no longer have to patronize local pool parlors, since tables will soon be installed in the Freshman Union...
...eminent writers on the staff of the Freeman (e.g., Van Wyck Brooks and Suzanne La Follette) knew where he lived. It was an office joke that the only way to communicate with him was by leaving a letter under a certain stone in Central Park. He was an expert billiard player, a master of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and a seasoned music critic. He was in the U.S. foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with the names of such people...
Died. George McConnell, 93, oldtime Indian fighter and baseball player (legend credits him with originating the curve ball); in Los Angeles. Some 70 years ago, Billiard Fan McConnell reputedly discovered that "English" could be used on baseballs, then organized a ball team that was undefeated for several seasons before batters caught...