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Newshawks demanded an inspection of The Beeches. At first Mrs. Comey refused them entrance. Mrs. Coolidge explained: "Really, it's Mrs. Comey's home still." Later Mrs. Comey relented, led 14 newsmen through the house, let them gape at the wine cellar in the basement, the billiard room in the attic, the sweeping outlook across meadowlands to Mount Holyoke and Mount Tom. The press inspectors rode up and down in the self-operating house elevator, stared speculatively at the outdoor swimming pool and tennis court, strolled through the ivory-tinted living room, the pinkish dining room, the bedroom...
...Joseph Hall of San Francisco, 44-year-old cue-wielder: the national amateur three cushion billiard championship, beating one Frank Fleming 50 to 37 in 78 innings in a dull, cautious game in French Lick, Ind. ¶ The Argentine polo team-Manuel Andrada, Jose and Juan Reynal, Alfredo Harrington-handicapped at 23 goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. ¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout...
...aquarium), knelt in prayer. Rubberneckers observed that the women's straw hats were circled with crimson ribbons lettered in gold. Later in the week the troupe sang, prayed and sermonized between performances of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Harry Hill's Gentleman's Sporting Theatre, Billiard Parlor & Shooting Gallery in the Bowery. Admission price was 25?. The troupers refused any share of the profits, saying that Harry Hill's money was the Devil...
...Louis, Percy N. Collins of Chicago, four times national amateur 18.2 balkline billiard champion, won the title again by trouncing Champion Ray V. Fessenden of Madison, Wis., 300 to 76 in 13 innings...
Players who have done well at pool or straight billiards often take up three-cushion, find it the most satisfying because it is the hardest. Curly-haired, florid Johnny Layton was the best pocket billiard player in the world before he decided that knocking balls into pockets was dull compared to pure cueing. When he won his first championship he went home to Sedalia, Mo., where he had become proficient during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down...