Show Moses of cf Billiard World I at ti fj IE J Benjamin Benjmin Deserves Credit TIE III man who organized the cue cua T THE stars of America Into three tournaments this season has done more to bring order out of ot chaos in that sport than any other Indi Individual l u l has accomplished In recent I years J The Tho successful organizer and matchmaker 1 13 is R. R B. B Benjamin noted sportsman and globe trotter The successful isi tourney at New York the tho three cushion e at Cleveland and the coming pocket Docket billiard bil bil- il liard hard meet at Philadelphia are his his work And when this championship Is f completed Bennie will tal take e his stars on a tour of or America f It in is the tho t the billiard biggest game season ever enjoyed Benjamin for Cor tho the past five years Vears has been the manager of Willie Hoppe believed by ly many to be the tha greatest player America ever pro pro- Tt Th even try to depict Bennies Bennie's Career career Ca- Ca ca ca- J reer In the sport world and thereabouts thereabouts there there- would require a small library for It has been as varied as a career could possibly he be It is enough to say that he has traveled more been In lii more cities talked with more sporting editors and had more written written writ writ- ten about his than any man in America And just a few of the things he has accomplished are are Taking the Australian cricketers t to te I England touring the world with a no larga large and varied number of great reat sporting attractions taking Willie Hoppe and the game Jame out of the discard and made them both the tha greatest drawing cards in America and arid finally originated the plan for the standardization of billiards It was but a II short time after Bennie Bennie Ben- Ben nie ole became manager for the phlegmatic matic matle king that he conceived the idea for the tho stabilization of ot tho the billiard bUllard games This Idea he enlarged on on nursed talked about an and developed de developed developed de- de until It became a perfect and finished thing worthy of ot the praise it has received And that finished plan was presented to the high and mighty council In tho billiard world accepted and adopted as all a permanent permanent permanent perma perma- nent plan for the establishment of oC championships for tho the sport of king kings The gist of this plan is to hold three championship tournaments annually annually an an- one ono for one for three cushions and one for pocket billiards the champions to hold their titles for I the period of one year rear and to be taken on tour four throughout America and Canada d playing g exhibitions tion in Iii nearly cities I I 11 i I in n v 5 ri 5 RB 8 AMIN I |