Word: welker
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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...
...entertainments will feature a program being arranged by the Union for this week-end. This afternoon at 4 o'clock Edouard Horemans, world's champion 18.2 balk-line billiard player, and Welker Cochran, American title-holder, will play an exhibition match in the living room...
...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...
...block of billiards played yesterday in the Main Living Room of the Union, Jake Schaefer, world's 18.1 balkline champion, defeated Welker Cochran 250 to 69, and in a game of 3 cushion billiards he won over Cochran by a score...