Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beat Layton 50 to 38 in 58 innings, but three-cushion championships are decided by total number of games won and lost, and it was Layton and not Kieckhefer who played off in the finals against Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia. Both finalists were cautious. In three-cushion billiards, the cue ball must touch cushion three times before hitting the second object ball. So much muscle as well as sound knowledge of angles is necessary in bringing this off that, in an important match, players often try less to make shots than to "leave them safe"?leave both object balls...
Between the Times-Star and the Post, the city's other evening newspaper, there exists a state of healthy, oldtime journalistic competition. The Post, with a slightly larger circulation (200,300), is independent, quick to snatch up the torch of popular issues, taking its political cue from the national Scripps-Howard chain to which it belongs. The Times-Star (circulation: 160,500) claims the support of the Best Families, boasts a greater bulk of advertising in its thick pages. Each watches its rival narrowly, trying to scoop city news and beat the other's editions to the street...