Word: matsuyama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recession. In Matsuyama, Japan, "Rice Merchant" Tadashi Ebino was finally tracked down by police after he had 1) collected 2,000 yen ($5) in advance from a customer, 2) borrowed the customer's bicycle to deliver the rice, 3) borrowed the customer's watch to make certain he got to the rice pickup point on time, 4) failed to return...
...years after Hoppe's feat, Masako Katsura, who grew up in a suburban Tokyo billiard parlor run by her brother-in-law, won the Japanese women's straight-rail championship. Then 16, she soon caught the eye of Kinrey Matsuyama, the Japanese Hoppe, who was runner-up, on his last U.S. visit in 1936, for the three-cushion title. Contrary to the slanderous old saw, Masako's proficiency at billiards seemed to Matsuyama a sign of anything but a misspent youth. Coached by him to perfection in the basic and fancy three-cushion shots (see cut), Masako...
Green Felt World. When tidings of the female wonder reached six-time Three-Cushion Champion Welker Cochran in the U.S., he skeptically queried his old opponent, Matsuyama. The reply was enough for Cochran: "Sometimes I beat her; sometimes she beats me." Cochran, director of the championship tournament, had to see this...