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Followers of billiards will have a chance to see one of the masters of the game in action when Jake Schaefer, world's 18.2 balkline billiard champion will give an exhibition of his skill at the Union tonight in the Living Room. David McAndless of Chicago, former national amateur 18.2 balkline champion, will meet Schaefer in all the games...
...Schaefer rates as one of the greatest exponents of billiards who ever wielded a cue. He is the pupil of his father, the late Jake Schaefer, often called by critics the greatest billiardist of all time: his education was completed under Willie Hoppe, a former champion...
...whirls, waltzes, glides and rockers, executed to such tunes as "Over the Waves" and "The Skaters" were technically perfect and filled with joy and grace. As expected, she won the world's figure skating championship for ladies for the fourth time, and then skated an exhibition with Karl Schaefer of Vienna who, as far superior to his competitors as she to hers, had won the men's championship. Said a Manhattan journalist of Henie: "Her costume was an eye-popper. . . . The flame-flowered little Nasturtium of the North swept straight into the hearts of her spectators." Fancy Skater J. Lester...
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...
...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...