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Show INSIST THAT HOPPf LEAVE THE COUNTRY PARIS, March 18. The police have refused to modify the order forbid ding Willie Hoppe, the young American Ameri-can billiard player, 'to give exhibitions here, and it ie believed be haa left for the United States. The trouble grows ont of hia having hav-ing played ia gamea in which betting was done when he was here before. Calvin Pemarest of Chicago contin nee to plav, bnt he is worried lest the roliee include him in the drastic order, n many quartera it ia believed that Hoppe 'a trouble wss eauaed by jealousy jeal-ousy betweea local billiard late who own rival halls. Early this week Hoppe broke toe 18.1 bslkliae record for a single ran made by Cure a few daya before Hoppe 'a arrival. Cure's record wss 531, but Hoppe raa 622 points. |