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...took up the harder four-wall game, beat Alfred Banuet for the national championship last year. Last week little Trulio was favored to keep his title in a cream-colored court of the Lake Shore Athletic Club in Chicago. His surprise came in the semifinals, against Albert Charles ("Hobey") Hobelmann of Baltimore, a player who had lost in the national semi-finals for the last six years. They made a preposterous contrast in the court-Trulio with the well-muscled physique of a lightweight boxer, Hobelmann 6 ft. 3 in. and 154 Ib. wearing spectacles. Trulio as usual tried...
...Next day Hobelmann's adversary was a player with a game more like his own-curly-haired Samuel Atcheson, paper salesman of Memphis, Tenn. Atcheson had a run of 14 points at the start of the match before Hobelmann got one; Hobelmann got 11 while his adversary ran out the game. The next game-Hobelmann depending largely on his reach, Atcheson playing low shots into the corners-was close till the points were at 6-all. Then Atcheson got another run, 15 points this time, to end the match and tournament without losing a game-a feat which...
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