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Show WILLIE HOPPE, WORLD'S CHAMPI9N BILLIARD 'J H PLAYER, SHOWED PRESIDENT! TAFT AND CABINET HIS SKEM H .-:&?" "-U. aBI gaPr a 'J ' WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. That President Pres-ident Taft is very much interosted In billiards as Well ns golf is shown by Hip fact that he invited Willie Hoppe, tho chnmplon billiard player of the world, to glvp an exhibition of his skill nt tho White houo New Year's eve. llopto had not only the President, but tho member? of hii ' cnhlnrt n spfc atom. Ho was thcl first blllla-d oha-rplr n to appoar he-q fore a President 0f tin- Unltd States! There was no billiard room in the' Whit" House and a tib'p wag set up.t for tho use of the champion. NAPHVH LE. Tonn.. 'in. 2 Tie general assembly of Tennessee will I begin its fifty-seventh biennial session f H tomorrow. Tho session promises to H be momentous inasmuch as a United j H Statos senator will bo selected, pro- ' H ilsion will bo made for funding tho H state debt, and the election laws will . H be changed, , H It was asserted this afternoon that H the regular Democrats would have a 1 H I majority on Joint ballot. Tho fusion- H ists claim the will have one majority H in Joint ssion. H I The Renatorsliip is iu doubt. Neither H former Governor McMillan nor Sen- ' H a tor J B. Frnzier have, ns yet, shown H that thev could get a majority. Gen- 'flH eral Luke Wright, former secretary i ) H or war, has not said whether ho will ; H enter tho race. f H Il |