Show I Wizard Shaefer Walks Many Miles I Jacob Schaefer the wizard of the th green cloth and the shining ball bail the father of the present game of billiards as played by h the experts In championship contests grew reminiscent the other day 1 I wonder said the man who has h s held more championships than any other pro professional professional professional billiard 1st that ever lived Jived how howman many man persons there are in the world who really have an idea of ot the amount of hard mental and physical labor lahar that must bo be undergone to become a billiard champion Sometimes I have hav thought that if it when I first began to play billiards in Cleveland with some success I had known what I 1 would have hae to go through there would never have been H Ii Jacob Schaefer cham chant champion champion pion Still I presume that I should have continued in the game Can you ou imagine that I have hare spent al ai mst half of or my life with a billiard cue cu cuIn in iti my ray 01 hand Everybody knows how old I 1 am and I dont propose to say any anything anything anything thing in regard to that but for Instance what would you think of or walking around a billiard table for years in succession Hard labor eh Well I guess It Is years on the march poking out cushion carom shots here and draw shots there running m and m mand 0 and behind you OU hearing the nervous hum of an Interested crowd of spectators who fret almost as aa much as you OU do whenever you ou bend over to make a shot counting point after point with an nn exactitude that almost surprises yourself and then at atthe atthe atthe the last moment falling flat fiat on an easy chance and failing to break a record |