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Famed championships are played at 18.2 balkline. This means only one carom (popularly called billiard) can be scored until one of the object balls is driven out of balk; on the second carom one object ball must cross the line...
...goof" until his girl booed his opponent on the last tee and he finally won a match. And William Bates, the stolid oaf: it took an insufferable poet and a water hazard to nerve him to propose. And Wallace Chesney with the purple-checked plus-fours; Gladstone Bott, wormcast carom king; storklike Bradbury Fisher; and that horde moving up the rough at dusk, the Wrecking Crew. . . . Golf has not yet begun this season on some U. S. courses but where Funnyman Wodehouse is read, play need never cease. His long irony is always "on the meat." Never out of bounds...
...brought the score to 4-3 as the gong sounded. F. McN. Bacon '20 evened the score on a lucky back-hand shot which slipped between Holden's legs in five minutes and 50 seconds from the start, followed by a tally by N. S. Walker '20 on a carom from a wild short of Bacon's. Holmes of Dartmouth again balanced the score by shooting the puck part the Harvard goal after the latter had been drawn out on a difficult stop...
Slosson beat Sexton in cushion carom billiards on Thursday by 17 points thus winning the championship...
...following is a bubble that the Lampoon has not blown: Carom-els are used in billiards...