Show Billiard Champ May Challenge By y yC NE C t Service r lc SPOKANE Wash Wah May Hay Tm 12 12 Im a champion of the ring rine pro pro- pro po proposing posing ln a match with a logical con con- contender con contender tender on a IL 1 take all basis Yet this I 1 exactly shat hat Ralph Talph youthful pocket champ proposes to do when ahen hen he re- re reCO ers re CO COers ers from the effects of the strenuous tour of the Pacific coast he has ha just c completed He- He Re Repeated cries of oC for for- former for former mer pocket billiard champion for a match are arc fruit says sas sa s he will make mako a I proposition to play under practically practicably any terms Tab Tat erski demands sa sae save e only that the be Inner all basis play on a It If Jf is sincere this In take Min ln- ln take ner proposition is will lii inter inter- interest est et him sa sas Greenleaf It If If he Is merely talking he will wilt ignore It IlS as ashe ash he has ignored all previous pre attempts to bring brint about a meeting between us and I will wilt ignore him hint hence hence- henceforth henceforth henceforth forth Greenleaf entertained hopes for tor time a time this spring that he h would be begien en gh gien en the opportunity of stilling the ail all from Schenectady when Charles Kline Klino of the th Strand Billiard academy ew ew ew York offered i for a 0 point 00 match the purse to tobe tobe tobe be split anyway the contestants contest ts de- de desired desired de desired sired Immediately ac- ac accepted ac accepted d but demurred the champ says ays iLij ILli 31 hr i r on-En on hen nhen Greenleaf puts the tho th proposition lion tion this time it will wIlt be up to to accept or forever hold his peace the former thinks The Th champion champton entertains E no thought of oC defeat at the hands hand of f or any other exponent of the pocket game c ime and Ills his record does not make mahe dope pointing to a from any quarter twice beat once Greenleaf-once once in and again In 1917 1911 Greenleaf then only a kid-IS kid kid It ears ean old at the i firt t defeat Time Tim has haa ell gh glen en the poise confIdence and nerves his play piny has Improved ad nd he ho is veteran ran of o sev- sev sev several eral tough touch campaigns The lat la-it meetinG between b tween Green Green- Greenleaf leaf leat and took tooh pl place e in 1917 HI at Wilmington Del and the 17 year old year-old year youth emerged victor Ictor over ver the ally lIy veteran Since which time i Gre Greenleaf charges s s with I studiously avoiding anything anything- that looked like lik II a meeting Greenleaf is only a slim boy now I Ills His appearance at the th table before a strange audience Invariably draws draw I C 4 f m- m mv mV ms mi v V s i C- C 4 RALPH R LEAF comment as to his youth Only th the confidence that Is the th heritage of a champion distinguishes him from of ot other in the th bib bil- billiard bil billiard liard rooms where he plas He shoots rapidly calling cabling a II shot before his last one has settled Into a 0 pocket His Hia marvelous con con- control control con control of the cue ball bait robs his play of much of ot the spectacular to the th 10 lay layman man because e he rarely shoots a tuh lay Greenleaf holds the th tournament high run record with 10 a mark that has baj never been be n approached and h he holds hol th the record In exhibition tion play with a a string of 21 He HeIs Heis HIs Is constantly ImprovIng his play It Is highly improbable that will accept Greenleafs Greenleaf's proposition If It he be do does not not Green Green- Greenleaf Greenleaf Gren-af Gren leaf may turn a deaf ear to future walls walts from trim Schenectady |