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Show I 'BOY ISJHE COMING . BILLIARD CHAMPION , tr " ; ; x f. ... Willie Hopped 'theboy billiard wonder, won-der, has without doubt proved that he is of championship "c!ass by his recent games with ' Jacob , Shaefer the Wls-zard Wls-zard of Billiards. ' ... . Hoppe Vaa been playing billiards and pool ever aince he was' ar blgb as a table and has always been noted for that natural touch which is a requisite of a champion. Without it no man can hope to be a world beater and It cannot bo educatedTTnto a player. It must be torn in him. Hoppe seems to be totally to-tally without nervousness and as he has had the coaching of the best men In the game is without-doubt slated for the championship. Even when be waa a mere boy 10 .years ago bis playing was marvelous. 1 When the writer saw him at that time he bad to kick a box around the table ' to stand on, as he could not get his right shoulder over the table from the floor. - He and Shaef er are now giving exhibitions exhi-bitions throughout the country and their games are most earnestly fought I ' - out even in the exhibitions. Hoppe's father kept a hotel at one of the little towns on th Hudson in New t York and the boy was almost brought f '' up on a billiard table. |