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...nervous control-as when, in a room filled with smoke, and banked on four sides by retreating slopes of intense watching faces, a billiard player in a stiff shirt and evening waistcoat, bending in a pour of white light over a green table, begins a run, clicking the cue ball against the two balls he is trying to keep against the cushion. When will he miss? Last week in San Francisco Edouard Horemans of Belgium shot 248 times, then stood aside for Jacob Schacfer to shoot...
Schaefer, who had been chalking his cue nervously while Horemans shot, bent over the table. With a few beautiful billiards he brought the balls, scattered when Horemans broke his run, into a position in the corner. He began a run, playing as smoothly as if he were unconscious of the concentration of hundreds of eyes and minds on the green table and on that spot in the table where his fingers rested holding the cue. He made fifty, seventy-five, eighty, eighty-five-and then, when it seemed as if he could have gone on making shots like a machine...
...speeches from the press galleries. It is possible, however, that the reporters regretted the necessity of publishing the words which so plainly signified a lack of tact on the part of the Senator from Alabama, but in the last extremity they can plead that he gave them no cue that his condemnation of Senator Robinson of Arkansas to tar and feathers was made only in "fun." In a speech bristling with denunciations and innuendos it was not their duty to separate the wheat from the chaff. Indeed, if senatorial "fun" of Senator Heflin's brand can be checked...
This is not, as are so many others, just one of those days. Came Friday and at the same time came the thirteenth of the month; the cue is for lightning flashes, thunder spurts, and a darkened stage. Today finds sable felines at a premium, unbreakable mirrors going up, and ladders being trusted only when in a horizontal position. And the headline writers clap hands in glee as they realize that Mrs. Snyder's demise will coincide with the most ominous of days...
Time was when even famed players could not score thus monotonously. Cushions were made of wood or cloth stuffed with hair; balls caromed crazily. Tablebeds were wood; cues wood untipped. With these and cruder implements billiards was played for many centuries; references to its ancestry are found in Shakespeare and stories of the Crusades. About 100 years ago leather cue tips; stone table beds; and rubber cushions clustered to change the game. In 1854 one Michael Phelan contrived an improved cushion; became first U. S. champion. Many masters have succeeded him. Today great players are Edouard Horemans, Belgium; Eric Hagenlacher...