Show Tepee Topics Topics' By Tommie Chief Chiefe We e Guess Em Porter 1 5 Willie Hoppe of New Vork tork who Wednesday night set a world record by scoring his seventeenth consecutive victory victory- in in winning the worlds world's three-cushion three billiards championship uses a very unorthodox side-arm side stroke which has often aroused much comment That unusual stroke is the re result re re- suIt sult of Hoppe having started playing playing playing play play- ing billiards when he was only six years of age and so small that he had to stand on ona ona ona a soapbox in order order or or- der to swing hi his cue 0 over v e r the C green covered g table But tt certainly the unorthodox unorthodox un un- orthodox f. f form 0 rm l has not prevented prevent prevent- ed the New Yorker winning c h ham a m p i o 0 n- n ships Hoppe c Porter orter established t the h e exhibition h high I 1 g Ii h run mark of 25 consecutive shots at San Francisco in 1918 and first gained world laurels in in the three- three cushion game in 1936 when he succeeded succeeded suc sue Welker Cochran He scored a high run of 53 in cushion caroms against Jake lake Schaefer Jr at Chicago in 1933 Won the world title in 1906 1910 1911 1913 1914 the 18 2 crown In 1908 1922 1923 1924 and had a three three- cushion l high gh run of 15 only IS-only only two under the world tournament record rec rec- ord rd rd-in in a challenge match against Co Cochran four years ago |