Word: cochran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sallow, pug-nosed, swaggering Welker Cochran, San Francisco billiardist: 400-to-139, with a high run of 217, his play-off match in the international 18.2 balk line billiards tournament, against skinny Erich Hagenlacher of Germany; in Chicago...
That was what boastful Welker Cochran thought of his 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...
...really old (46), or to young Jay Bozeman, married for the second time just before the tournament and sporting a slave bracelet on his left wrist. But by last week all but two of the twelve contestants had played eleven matches and lost three or more. Those two were Cochran and Layton, each with eight wins out of ten. Their match last week, on the last night of the tournament, was for the title...
...Cochran lit one cigaret after another while Layton, handling his cue with annoying deliberation, wiggling his pale eye brows with conscious archness, worked his score up to 7 before Cochran had made his first billiard. Twenty innings passed before Cochran could make two points in a row. Then he got a run of four but Layton was ahead, 29-to-9. When the crowd grew noisy, dawdling, red-faced Layton walked to his chair and waited for silence. When Cochran demanded new balls, Layton insisted on the old ones, compromised by keeping his cueball, letting the other two be replaced...
Score: Tufts 49, Harvard 29. Goals: Merry 8, Kavanaugh 8, Grinnell 7, Harris 4, Boys 2, Morse 2, Regean 1, Woodworth 1, Cochran 1. Fouls: Merry 2, Grinnell 2, Cochran 2, Grady 2, Woodworth 1, Comfort 1. Umpire: Parker; Referee: McGuinness; Time: Two 20-minute periods...