Fred Eames was an American three-cushion billiards champion. In 1910 he defeated Alfredo de Oro for the Three-cushion Billiards World Champion title. [1] [2]
Fred Eames was an American three-cushion billiards champion. In 1910 he defeated Alfredo de Oro for the Three-cushion Billiards World Champion title. [1] [2]
Cue sports, also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions.
Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball on a single shot. The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th-century France.
Sang Chun Lee, most commonly known simply as Sang Lee, was a Korean American professional three-cushion billiards player and world champion.
William Frederick Hoppe, was an internationally renowned American professional carom billiards champion, who was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1966.
Alfredo de Oro was a Cuban professional carom billiards and pool player who several times held the world title in both three-cushion billiards and straight pool simultaneously. He was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1967, one of the very few non-Americans to receive the honor. He was ranked number 4 on the Billiards Digest 50 Greatest Players of the Century.
Dingeman Jacobus Johannes "Dick" Jaspers is a Dutch professional carom billiards player who specializes in the three-cushion event.
Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a popular form of carom billiards.
Edward Lancaster Lee was an American professional carom billiards player from New York City.
Calvin W. Demarest of Chicago, was a national amateur and professional carom billiards champion from Chicago in the early 20th century known for an open, crowd-pleasing style of play. He later gained notoriety for stabbing his wife and injuring his mother during a suicidal psychotic episode. Demarest won major amateur championships in 1907 and 1908.
James Maturo was the 1912 World pocket billiards championship winner.
Frank B. Adams, commonly known as Yank Adams, was a professional carom billiards player who specialized in finger billiards, in which a player directly manipulates the balls with his or her hands, instead of using an implement such as a cue stick, often by twisting the ball between one's thumb and middle finger. Adams, who was sometimes billed as the "Digital Billiard Wonder", has been called the "greatest of all digit billiards players", and the "champion digital billiardist of the World." George F. Slosson, a top billiards player of Adams' era, named him the "greatest exhibition player who ever lived." Adams' exhibitions drew audiences of 1,000 or more, leaving standing room only, even in small venues.
Masako Katsura, nicknamed "Katsy" and sometimes called the "First Lady of Billiards", was a Japanese carom billiards player who was most active in the 1950s. Katsura blazed a trail for women in the sport by competing and placing among the best in the male-dominated world of professional billiards. First learning the game from her brother-in-law and then under the tutelage of Japanese champion Kinrey Matsuyama, Katsura became Japan's only female professional player. In competition in Japan, she took second place in the country's national three-cushion billiards championship three times. In exhibition she was noted for running 10,000 points at the game of straight rail.
Herbert Hardt was an American semi-professional carom billiards player from Chicago, Illinois. A bank clerk by day, Hardt took second place at the 1952 United States Eastern Regional Three-cushion Billiards Championship, thereby qualifying to play as one of ten contestants worldwide in the U.S.-hosted World Three-cushion Billiards Championship of the same year. Hardt came in dead last at the world championship, though he was competing against the best players in the world.
John Gregory Horgan, Jr., nicknamed "the Banker", was an American professional player of pocket billiards and three-cushion billiards.
Charles Richard Morin, sometimes referred to as Charley Morin, was an American professional carom billiards player, and in 1911 the World Three-cushion Champion.
Harold John Worst was an American three-cushion billiards champion. He won the three cushion billiard championship in Argentina in 1954, the youngest player to compete at his level. Harold is the winner of 51 major billiard championships. Also he was equally skilled at pocket billiards and Worst dominated play to win the All-Around titles in both the 1965 Johnston City. The same year Harold Worst won the Stardust Open championships. He was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1970.
Frank Taberski (1889–1941) was a professional pocket billiards player from Schenectady, New York. Nicknamed "The Gray Fox," he won 10 world title challenge matches in a row.
George W. Moore was a three-cushion carrom billiard champion.
Fifteen-ball pool, also known as sixty-one pool, is a nineteenth century American pocket billiards game that developed from pyramid pool. Created by members of the Bassford's Billiard & Chess Rooms in Manhattan during the late 1830s or 1840s, it is the ancestor to most American pool games.
Final Score 150 To 137 De Oro, After Playing Poorly Two Previous Evenings, Comes Along with a Rush, but Fails to Win. Fred Eames of Boston last night won ...
By winning the second block of the 150-point billiard match, three cushion carroms, for the world's championship, at McGraw's Billiard Academy last night. Fred Eames of Boston took a commanding lead over the champion, Alfreda De Oro and looks like a probable winner when the third block is contested this evening.
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