Word: caroms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoppe's facility with a cue is the sign of a youth spent in such diligent attention to billiards that he amazed experts before he was out of knickerbockers. He has held every title in billiards, although now he holds only the 18.1 balk line and the cushion carom. A quiet, smiling little man, he enjoys telling of the time at the turn of the century when Mark Twain watched him play a great billiardist named Sutton. Except for one inning in which he could not score, young Billiardist Hoppe sat tranquilly aside watching Sutton run out the block...
Expert billiard players, disgusted with ordinary billiards because it is so easy, have never ceased devising harder variations. Three-cushion billiards, in which the cue ball must touch three cushions before completing a carom, is the most difficult of all. As a swimmer, Lee specialized in long distance, won the U. S. championship five times. Because of his swimming prowess he was asked to join the New York Athletic Club in 1925. When he took to utilizing the club's billiard tables, it naturally occurred to him to learn the game the longest, hardest...
...higher above the earth than any balloon has ever ascended lies a series of curved shells of electrified air which scientists call the ionosphere. From this ionized region of upper space radio waves carom and curl around the earth. For two years Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has had under way a program of ionosphere research mustering a platoon of scientists and ranging from the tropics to the far North. At the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, Dr. Edward Olson Hulburt kept track of the work, conferred with the workers. Last week in the Physical Review...
...with Van Belle for first place. Soussa, who had already made the high run - 181 - of the tournament, played the best billiards of the week. He gathered the balls at the rail for a run of 163, then carelessly missed the first ball in an easy carom. It was Poensgen's turn to be nervous. He sniffed at a glass of ice-water, stared warily at the ceiling, plucked at the sleeves of his tight black silk jacket. His longest runs were 50 and 12. Soussa...
Cooperation in pass work, and fast running accounted largely for the first five goals, but late in the game, a sixth point was tallied when Frost, Tabor full back, allowed the ball to carom off his foot into...