Show 6 WELI ER CO COCHRAN HRAN BEATS SCHAEFER TO GAIN NAT NATIONAL ONAL BILLIARD TIT REALTOR T TAKES A K r 1 2 I LAURELS t Willi Hoppes Hoppe's Crown L Goes to Youthful iw March 12 AP Welker Cochran 30 year old old ear Hol- Hol Ca Cal real estate dealer won the the world championship balk balk- line Ilie billiard tournament tonight de- de Jake Schaefer of Chicago to Cochran Cochlan by winning the championship chain cham- received 2 and a a. percentage percent per per- cent ge of the gate receipts lie He also wa was gien a. a diamond medal bythe by the N Billiard association Sec Second nd money went to Hagen Hagen- lacher who topped Schaefer Ir in L grand rand average lie he had been a threat in veral eral tournaments Cochran never before had won the championship ILls His victory tonight gave him a final of five victories and one defeat that at the hands of Willie HOPPe of New York the champion TIED FOR FIRST Previous to their match tonight Cochran and Schaefer twice champion champlon cham- cham plon pion were Were tied for tor first place Defeat De- De teat feat b by the Californian gave the ChiCago expert whose father in Ius 1115 I day was without a a. peer as a NI- NI hard liard player a final rating of four fou wins and two defeats One of Schaefer's setbacks wa administered by Erich of Germany German who ho in matches won and lost was tied with him fer i second place With a fifty fifty-fifty standing if d three wins and three lost matches ere Edouard Horemans of Bel Bel- glum Ium and Felix Orange of France while below them and topping only J inre Matsuyama of Japan who lost all his six matches was Hoppe winner of the world championship nearly a score of times time In the theto to tournament end ended d tonight the New NewYork York wizard made a poor showing winning only t two 0 matches one of them from Cochran while he lost tour four NERVOUS AT START Cochran and Schaefer were p. p bit nervous at the start but In Inthe inthe the fourth inning the Pacific coast eXp eXpert rt lashing flashing the r COlm that h t ls distinguished his matches except that Jast ast night with Hoppe made a high run of 22 22 which put him nearly points le lead d. d Schaefer ther aC e played good I but in b th the sixth and masse shots Ire the sixth Cochran was within eighteen points of victory but buli- buli ged i ione one cushion shot The Californian who began play play- in the game in hIs billiard parlor at 12 years rears of age has been Jeen competing with stars for sixteen n ye re rs rs The ne nearest rest previous to this b year he ever anie to a championship championship champion champion- ship was when he lost a ap p pl OU to Hoppe Iii in being an expert billiard p pl y y i- i iCo r Co ran is a crack golfer gofer The score scon b by innings schaefer 14 28 26 2 22 1 32 72 12 Cochran 10 24 0 O. O 29 30 SO 89 18 High Schaefer runs 72 12 Cochran 2 9 Schaefer Averages IS 51 7 5 Cochran 57 51 17 1 |