Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principal opponents four weeks ago when he settled down at Manhattan's Capitol Billiard Academy to a three-week defense of his world's three-cushion billiard championship. In his first match, against left-handed Alfredo de Oro, 71-year-old Cuban who was the champion pocket-billiard player 47 years ago, Cochran led at 37-10-36. De Oro made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then he added five more points. But when he missed...
...minutes of play and one of the most onesided finals on record, Layton knocked off an easy billiard that gave him the title, 50-10-23. Walking around the table he shook hands with the man who thought it would be a "breeze." Said the new world's champion: "I never wanted to win so badly and I don't think I ever played any better. ... He caught quite a blind man, didn...
...with a top-notch professional. That was when Alfredo de Oro stopped off at St. Louis one afternoon 30 years ago for an exhibition match, and advised his practice opponent, a boy just out of short trousers, to give up pool for three-cushion billiards. After becoming the world-champion pool player, Layton did so. The diamond-shaped plates, now set in the rail of every standard billiard table, were developed from his system of studying angles. World's three-cushion billiard champion ten times, Layton's newspaper name is still "the Sedalia carpenter." In addition to carpentering...
...outstanding bout of the afternoon will be the Varsity heavyweight match between Gridley Barrows '34 wrestling his last Varsity match and Henry Snowden of Yale, Intercollegiate champion. Last year Snowden threw Barrows in 7 minutes, but the Harvard star has shown better form this year and hopes to revenge the defeat...
...materials used in the sculpture add to their interest and to the effect that they produce. One stallion is created out of cire perdue bronze, plated with gold and ornamented with lapis lazuli, ivory, and onyx. The Black Knight of Auchterarder, a champion bull, is hewn out of a piece of black Belgian marble, and is a figure of great simplicity and monumentality...