Word: schaefer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back from Belgium to the U. S. rolled the world's 18.2 balkline billiard championship. Jake Schaefer of Chicago, champion before and son-of-a-champion, beat Welker Cochran of Hollywood in the deciding match, 400 to 328. Both finalists had first to defeat Kinrey Matsuyama, adroit "Japanese Molecule" (TIME, Feb. 18). Several players beat 1928 Champion Edward Horemans...
Matsuyama had the frailties of the other players on file, as well. He decided that Welker Cochran was "too daring and care-less," that portly Felix Grange was "weak on nurse." Jake Schaefer, a smooth fingered youth from Chicago, son and namesake of a five-time champion, was the only one who worried the little Japanese...
...Schaefer he could find no technical flaw. In the mental notebook there was one entry, however: "Lacks fighting spirit." Said Matsuyama, "Put Schaefer on a table a foot higher than the regulation table and I'll play him for $1,000 a side...
...Shelton Hale Scholarship was won by P. A. Freund, a graduate of Washington University. The Herbert Parker Scholarship was won by W. J. Killion, a graduate of Boston College. The Rutherford B. Hayes Scholarship was won by R. C. Schaefer, a graduate of Oberlin College. The Robert T. Swaine Scholarship was won by R. C. Westgate 26. The Buchanan Scholarship was won by R. H. Guthrie, a graduate of The Citadel. Two Class of 1913 Scholarships were won by F. H. Heiss and W. A. Page, graduates of Southeastern University and Stanford University, respectively...
...interest to the politically minded will be invitations to Senator Borah of Idaho, "Jimmy" Walker, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. For those seeking entertainment, the most definite offering that the Union management can now make is the Jake Schaefer billiard exhibition in January. Last season Mr. Schaefer and Welker Cochran played to a full house. Several travel talks will be given,--the management hopes to secure some authority on the comparatively newly discovered city...