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Players who have done well at pool or straight billiards often take up three-cushion, find it the most satisfying because it is the hardest. Curly-haired, florid Johnny Layton was the best pocket billiard player in the world before he decided that knocking balls into pockets was dull compared to pure cueing. When he won his first championship he went home to Sedalia, Mo., where he had become proficient during long sleepy days when, if you were not playing pool at the smoke house, there was nothing to do but count the cars on Ohio Street, or go down...
Before the national three-cushion championship ended in Manhattan last week, Layton had taken a beating from August Kieckhefer. If anyone, talking to Kieckhefer face to face, looks at his left eye, he has a feeling that Kieckhefer is interested in something else. To overcome the behavior of his eye, he shoots left-handed so that he can sight with his right eye. He 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...
...strangest experiences that the crew of the Los Angeles ever had was when, last September, as the ship sailed low over Layton, N. J., a man ran out with a shotgun and fired a charge up into the big silvery bag. He accompanied his shot with dancing, gesticulations and lilliputian shouts. The lead pellets, though buckshot, tore only small holes in the ship's fabric. But they might have struck machinery, caused disaster. Had the Los Angeles been inflated with inflammable hydrogen instead of inert helium, she might have blown up. And anyway, it is not proper to shoot...
...regulars were unable to play, but it has at present the strongest line-up. On Saturday it bunched its hits in the eighth inning to win a 4 to 2 verdict from the Crimson 1928 team, and it will be eager to keep its record against the Crimson unbroken. Layton hurled on Saturday, but he will probably get the call again today...
...Layton began the game by walking Nordberg and hitting Jones. An error by Captain Billhardt with Linscott's single allowed both the Crimson runs to score in the first inning. The Andover batters got to Barbee for three hits in succession in the same frame, one of them a double, but fast fielding prevented any score. In the fifth inning, Andover tallied once when Riler hit, stole second and crossed the plate on Prior's single. The Crimson lead looked good enough to win, however, until the eighth inning, when three hits, an error, and a passed ball accounted...