Word: caroms
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...tourney mark by bagging the required 50 points in only 20 innings. Once he had found himself, even the lingering aftereffects of amoebic dysentery, picked up on a Central American tour, could not keep him from making the most difficult of shots-such as a six-cushion carom with the object balls frozen on the rail...
...adroit and likable quick-change artists in the profession. He can beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises of his time, without for a moment losing the reader's interest and sympathy...
...overtime, Captain Danny Sullivan won the tilt for Dartmouth when he jumped the Crimson defense and unassisted smacked a carom off Vint Freedley's stick towards the net. The puck just crossed the red line, if at all, before Freedley swiped it aside. Freedley's protests that the puck never entered the cage were ignored, and the winning score was tallied for Dartmouth...
...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...