Show u 7 J y G Greatest rea test Thrill ill in In Sport S port I J JL 1 By B WILLIE HOPPE Greatest Billiard Player of All Time jK n ERE nE are various thrills in sport is the time keenly pleasant sort comes omes when you snatch victory victor o t the slavering erin Ia jaws of defeat ande and e m is 18 the heart numbing kind that when hen your opponent t J 1 r the time trick on you Have ave e been rather fortunate In that r of my thrills have been heen pleasant mt 11 H years of or competitive playing I IIi Ii h have n a v e defeated s so some o In e a brilliant b d. d r men amen and set rr e. e Sr quite a n f few ew new records and all J D of them brought 4 1 lit the thc warm glow blow i that victory al always al- al tt t ways does docs d 1 There ere was a abig t bi big one h when n I If Iwon f r- r won my first fi w. w championship t another Jt there was another lIloth- lIloth e er fine t thrill Ii h r I l J I when wh n I regained r l It by Lc Ie Pile Pile Hoppe J 1 a k 1 e Schaefer i Its It's hard to pickie pick ie bt defeating Jake Schaefer Its It's Itsjo t i i. i w jo to pick the thc best hest t ml might ht not j dJ Liss ss to o mention the kick I b gained i jf setting a new record fit fat the game Jame to was as In November l 1910 uno to be ex ex- qA that hat L t made the first high murk a I was la a youngster then and anda fP i uS as a n wonderful feeling to know 0 fI I had done something that no noh h In the world had ever equaled the le g L' L gratification was c even u t because the time 18 game Is the 1 have specialized In during g most afi y career and there Is a real dir dif ICe ts between cen that and the I tl l as ns one anyone lm who vho has ag played ed Iii bil- hilI S Swill will ill understand fit t even een that did l not quite match no 1 f the thrill I had some years later t when vim en enI I ran at I had heen been a champion champion cham chain pion plan for a long iong time nn and had gained many successes but hut I still had the capacity capacity ca ca- ca aIt of or enjoyment at nt any unusual feat that 1 was able to accomplish Probably these things s stand and out outmost outmost outmost most keenly in ill n memory as having given me the greatest thrills of m my career because the they were the time rarest things In n that career Championships are nothing new I have won so many of them But setting setting set set- ting these records were thin things s mart apart Other m moOn ha had beaten those whom I had hUI outscored ored to win by champion champion- championship championship ship but no other men had equaled those records I set Perhaps that Is Ish h why they gave guve me methe methe methe the greatest satisfaction and the keenest thrill of or my life I I tc Ind by Company |