Word: schaefer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play billiards when he was so small that h' had to stand upon a chair; how he won the world's championship, played before kings, statesmen, presidents; how Mark Twain, that voluble billiard-fan, told him a funny story; how he toured the world with Jacob Schaefer, "the Wizard." Hoppe defeated Jake Schaefer, but the old man trained his son, young Jake, to take revenge. Once, indeed, young Jake defeated Hoppe, took the title, but was defeated in turn after a few months. Except for this brief period, Hoppe, now 37, has been champion for 17 years...
Last week, in Chicago, the answer to this question, the epilog to this book, was, to all appearances, written for good. Young Schaefer beat Hoppe. Before a gallery that stared with strained intensity at a green baize table spotted with three ivory spheres, the game began that was to be an epilog, an answer. Schaefer won the bank, missed his shot; Hoppe, attempting a difficult around-the-table shot, failed, too; again Schaefer missed. The gallery shifted uncomfortably; gentlemen regarded one another in amazement. Were these scratchers the two greatest billiard players in the world? Hoppe chalked his cue, made...
...Roberts '23, S. W.; Jess H. Jackson, J. W.; Edwin A. Shaw, treasurer; J. E. Bagley Sp., secretary; Professor Kirsopp Lake, chaplain; W. A. Hosmer '18, instruction marshal; D. B. Baker '08, S. D.; Dr. F. A. Hamilton '06, J. D.; E. S. Russell '19, S. S.; A. A. Schaefer '06, J. S.; D. W. Wainhouse '24, I. S.; C. A. Young, organist; A. H. Conant, tyler...
...Schaefer Yearling Best...
...other hand, the Freshmen will compete with the up-staters in a four-mile grind putting their chief hope in E. E. Schaefer '24 to capture first honors...