Show I Golf Takes Interest of Billiards in Europe BERLIN f March 22 first played s so long ago ngo that even historians have been baffled In their efforts to trace Its origin Is losing popularity In Europe according to various authorities authorities ties who attribute this to the general increase of interest in golf There are no positive records record just where and when the game of or billiards began but some historians report that during the rambles of the t th philosopher through g Greece fe ein and other r countries In quest of 1 knowledge knowl knowl- 1 edge he witnessed ti n. game analogous to billiards an and he ho liked It very much More king of Ireland in the second century Is known to have left behind him five fifty billiard balls of brass with pools pools' and c cues cives s of the same material Billiards b became Came popI popular pop pop- ular in France during the reign of or Louis XVI Whose physician recommended recommended recommended mended this form o of exercise |