Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-12-10 | Page 4 | 8 Cue Artists to Match Shots in Titular Contests next Week

I SEEK CHAMPIONSHIPS CHAM Ii I t S t 1 1 i J t E i 5 S iU I HiJI L S 4 1 H Hero Here are arc c four of f the eight experts who i will match t shots i s for two world I titles in a round robin tournament in Chicago December 17 1719 I 8 Cue Artists to Match Shots In hi Titular Contests Next Week Week- Greenleaf Favored to Win Pocket Pock t Title Again Large Lame Purses at Stake CHICAGO Dec 10 AP Two AP-Two Two I world billiard title matches will be decided here at the same time when I the tile eight ranking cushIon 3 and pocket billiard shot makers meet i m in a n round robin tournament December December De De- DeI De- I cember comber 17 18 and 19 It will be the first time that two world billiard championships have been decided in joInt tournaments Among the 3 cushIon cue wielders wielders wield- wield ers ens will be the titian haired national nation nation- al champion Johnny Lay Layton ton of oC Sedalla Se- Se Sei i dalla Mo Layton won the national national national na na- na- na crown rown last spring as he qualified quaIl quaIl- fled fied for the tIle worlds world's tournament tOgether to together tO- tO gether with Willie Hoppe Otto Rel- Rel former champion and Gus Copulos HOPPE DANGEROUS Hoppe up runner-up in Ill the national tournament again agan is apt to prove troublesome for Layton In a national national national na na- na- na tour the former king more than held his own with the national cushion 3 champion Eight times national champion in ten years Ralph Greenleaf youthful pocket titleholder Is favored to win that honor Greenleaf never has been defeated In a tournament al- al j though he has Ilas lot his isis title se several veral eral times in match pla play Opposing the pocket star will be Frank Ervin Rudolph both former champions and Pasquale Natalie Greenleaf has shown strength in tournament play and never has been defeated in match snatch play winning his title In 1927 by lending leading Greenleaf In match pIa play LARGEST EVER The purses this year will be the largest ever offered according to the tile National Billiard association sponsors of ot the tournaments The Tile winner of the tile title In each tournament will wili receive 2500 In cash 40 per cent of f tire tim net gate and a yearly salary of ot The up runner-up receives 1230 In cash 30 per cent of ot the tile gate and a a. salary of a year It is the tho first time that the tile winner of oC se second ond place has been given a salary The third place winners receive and 20 per cent of ot the gate while and 10 per cent of the gate goes to the fourth place i players