Show Billiard TUe e S 'S Sted t to Change Cag Moth Writer Favors Young Jake Schaefer to Trim Horemans in Return Titular Match By ART CARLSON 1 NEW EW YORK Jan 2 2 Toppling titleholders seems to be he all th the go to o nowadays New champions are bobbing up everywhere I IOn On of the latest fields Invaded has been that o of billiards a sport usually pretty much from the dethroning epidemic In fact It appears the cue crown is i with that of wrestling to see which can find the most heads to adorn over a given period I During the past year Lewis Munn Zbyszko and have sported the wrestling wig And since last February Hoppe Schaefer Schaefer fer and Horemans have walked neath the olive branch o of billiards In 1st the mat mart It its it's nothing new where titles have been passed around with unusual and at times rather rathel suspicious regularity I But its it's somewhat out of I the beaten trail tran In carom circles For For many years Willie Hoppe ruled the gr green en table fraternity with a crafty cue ue and sans inter inter- Then in 1921 Young Jacob Jacob Jacob Ja Ja- Ja- Ja cob Schaefer smashed the Hoppe dynasty only to have the latter re return return re- re turn to power two years later Mr Hoppe clung to the exacting pace lace until last winter when Schaefer Schaefer fer again ousted the beati beart brumm brummel l. l A few weeks ago came Edouard Horemans the haired bushy-haired Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian glan to whip Schaefer Thus in the last four years the I cue crown h has ha's s changed domes as i iman man many times three tImes three within the past ten months I Now ow still another shift looms Schaefer and anti Horemans Horemans' are to I meet neet In ITt n a a. return match early next I month 1 I look for the youthful Jake to defeat the foreigner in their second fiesta Quite decisively too I Iv Ive I've seen een een both in action and ana Sv certainly impresses me as asa asa a more finished Finesse Technique Control Pol PoI ish Schaefer looked far superior Horemans who is rather unique in topnotch billiards in that hes he's a southpaw Is a great masse player J. J He's Hes es e's deadly at that difficult shot probably as as' as asgood good as the game has produced But you OU cannot play the masse all ail evening Hes He's likewise a splendid fancy and trick-shot trick artist Not quite in Petersons Peterson's class though far above the average But the fancy stuff dont don't have much place in a regular match either Its It's not taking anything vay a away avay from Horemans to say he was a bit luck lucky in usurping g Schaefer's lau lau- reis The Belgian got ot the breaks pushed out to an early lead and barely managed to hold it to the end Schaefer if anything played be below below below be- be low his usual form He showed but butone butone butone one real eal flash of ot championship stuff It came near the end of the match when he clicked off caroms for lot a new world record only to lose o out t by five points It was one of the greatest uphill rallies rallies rallies ral ral- ral- ral lies in all billiard history A questionable at least S it was to Schaefer doubtless affected af af- ar- ar the champions champion's performance too The argument came near terminating terminating terminating ter ter- ter- ter the match In the middle le leof of the second block Schaefer consenting consenting con con- seating to tini finish h only on agreement a r return turn clash would take place regardless regardless regardless re re- re- re of or the winner Hence their second meeting And dont don't be le overly overl astounded If Horemans Horemans Hore Hore- mans experiences a Eugene Criqui Cri- Cri qui and slid finds he was a world champ for less than two months |