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Show Billiard Champs Here Tonight I Wn . . i v-. Il Weber Club Scene Of Contests Willie Hoppe, the master: Charles C. Peterson, the magician. This is tho best way to classify these great blll-iardists. blll-iardists. They will appear at the Weber We-ber club this evening. Hoppe is supreme at point making. He has no equal and is not likely to meet with much competition for "seasons "sea-sons to come. But a new field has been opened and it remained for the ingenious Charles C. Peterson, referee authority, lecturer aad entertainer to discover a new medium of billiard en- terlainmenL I Hoppe and Peterson form the greatest great-est combination that ever represented billiards. Hoppe himself, is sufficient: to attract, but his act has been greatly, strengthened by the presence or Peterson. Peter-son. The spectators expect much from-Hoppe from-Hoppe and arc never disappointed. But. what Polcrson presents not onlvi pleases but mystifies. f j Peterson not only is a billiard play-l er of class ano a referee of note, but' he adds to, his worth through his abil- ity to carry on a humorous monologue I while giving his exhibitlion. His lectures lec-tures on billiards, which always open' the show, never fail to please. H is in the realm of Tancv shots' that Charles C. Peterson is king. Here! it is that we aie forced to concede! him the title of Peterson, the magician i Peterson is the Thurston of billiards' This wieldor of the magic cue has1 a list of 199 shots In his collection,! but he insists that this is not the' limit. His motto is: "show me a bill-1 iard shot I can't make." After witness-' Willie Hoppe. I ing his work no one will question his challenge. 1 The "over the top," tho "hesitation," ' "the shimmy," "the serpentine glide," "skidding the rail," "shooting the 1 shoots," ".riding the rapids" "looping the loop," and dozens of other niysti- ,. fying mystifiers are found in his repertoire. rep-ertoire. Peterson is now near. the end of an American tour with Hoppe that has carried him from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts. His brilliant work has been one of the features of the tour. Hoppe and Peterson -will be in Off-den Off-den todav. " r |