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Show CHAMP GAME TO BE PLAYED IN SEATTLE Seattle, Wash.. Jan. 24 - For the first time in the history of Seattle a world's championship at pocket bil Hard will be played here next Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Thursday and Friday Bennie Allen, who rec ently wrested the title I from Ah red 1 Oro, will defend hi? Mtle here agalns James Maturo. chai enger, Allen, who resides in K;rj as City, is a partner of Johnny Kling, the famous baseball player, in the billiard business. Maturo lives in Denver, but wl1 have to come all the way out to Se attle to get a crack at the champion. Allen has never been out to the coast and as Brown and Hulen made the highest bid for his services he named Seattle as the place where the match would be held. Like the champions In boxing, the champion of the cue dictates how much of the purse he wants, and where the match will be held. Allen has defended his title successrully agalnst Cowboy Weston. Maturo defeated De Oro in the lasi I national pocket billiard tournament held at Philadelphia about a year ago and he in turn lost to Edward I. Ralph the next night Maturo alway s claim ed that he would have been champion after that tournament if he had not been forced to play two tough men without a rest. |