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Show We v c.i, ., billiard champion Who's siealinp Babe liuth'K sluif I He says to hit the firsl one t ight Ami you'll v :n games enough. He learned ihis I'm,', in baseball j For he used bo pla ii too "AU hOmti runs aln'i in ball bins. Tor I make Vm with my cue." j Johnnv LaytOD learned to play bll I Hards after a broken collar bone I ruined his baseball anibiiioii About the only form of athletics that Lay ton hasn't (aken part in is fool I ball. j He has played professional baseball 1 with the Wichiia club in the Western league. He has boxed, wrestled, swam. I shot traps and played u nni - It took hiiu eleven ears to learn thai all home runs Weren't made wiih' ball bais and thai iome of them could be made with a billiard cue. He began to play or. Hit green cloUi , in 1902 and didn't graduate into a pi luhti i!i:;. He practiced for the recent three, cushion championship tournament in Chicago by playing pocket billiards. I He used Ihe same theory that n?.be illihli gets rcMili- with in hilling hum ers namely thai hitting the firs! ball right is the secret of wiuuing at , billiards. He was born at Stewardaon, III., in ISS7. but has lived in si. Louts since the ago of C. Laylon once held the world's championship cham-pionship at pocket billiards. His oth er athletic accomplishments baVe given giv-en him a fine body and n steady set of nerves. De Oro's scalp was the trophy that 1 made him the three-cushion champ. Hitting the first ball rlgfit, just as I Babe Ruth tries to do and usually does, has given him ihe three-cushion palm. |