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Show CHAMP BILLIARDIST WILL MEET YAMADA Salt Lake, Feb. 24. William F. Hoppe, world's champion, and Koji Yamada, Japanese champion, play their first exhibition match game at Quinn's Orpheum billiard parlors, commencing at 3 and 8 p. m. today. Hoppe's recent victory in New York, in which he gave all the players play-ers a long start, and won every game, in addition to making the world's record rec-ord rua of 308 goes to show that he is playing in his very hest form. Spectators will be astonished at the remarkable manipulation of the cue aud will appreciate that It is a game incorporating the heighest degree of skill and delicacy of touch, coupled with a fascination that characterizes few other games. There Is plenty of tho spectacular In tho game and a brilliant match is predicted when Hoppe meets Yamada tonight. At the conclusion of the game this evening Yamada, the Jap wonder, will givo an exhibition of fancy shots, specializing spe-cializing the masse shot In which he stands supreme. Hoppe maintains that commanding skill- at billiards Is a gift which cannot can-not be acquired by the most assiduous assidu-ous practice. Hoppe avers that two years of playing Is sufficient to dem-'unstrate dem-'unstrate whether or not any ambitious billiardist has It "In him" to excel. Billiards simply comes natural to some persons, and unless it does It Is useless for anyone to dream of being a champion, according to the champ. |