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Show WILLIE HOPPE AND MIS FELLOW BILLIARD EXPERTS ENTERTAIN IN EXHIBITION AT THE WEBER CLUB The world's greatest billlardists entertained en-tertained tho members of the cWbcr club at tho elub headquarters last night. For three hours the star cue quartette made the ivories speak very cloarly in their own language. Billiards Bill-iards of a. eln only champions can exhibit were on display. William F. Hoppe, the greatest player that ever lived; Charles C. Peterson, Pet-erson, king of fancy shots, lecturer, entertainer and billiard headliners; Ralph Greenlcaf, the twenty year old pocket billiard champion, and Jeromo Keogh, a five times champion were tho stars that played. A capacity crowd jammed tho limited limit-ed quarters in the billiard parlors, rhoy saw the wonder Hoppe display the class that has carried him from ihampinoship to championship without with-out a setback in any form. In the hope of the Present they saw a supper Hoppo for his record on tho present tour an average of nearly fifty-five for 1 1,000 points is the greatest ever made by a billiardist in the history of the game. Hoppe was returned a. winner over naries u. Peterson by 200 to 32, having hav-ing one continuous run of 115, but victory is nothing new in the life of Hoppe. His career has been a series of triumphs. Incidently Hoppe's victory vic-tory last night was his final game of the 1020 tour. The famous cueist leaves this afternoon on the Overland Limited for New York. Following the billiard match, Peterson Peter-son put on his ontertaining fancy shot number. Here he made the ivories ivor-ies do stunts that they were not made for. His act is the greatest of - its kind ovxer staegd. it is a combination of all that is freakish, dazzling and mystifying-. Peterson's monologuo does much to help put over the trick num- " 'jH When the billiard stars finished, jH the pocket billiard king moved to the Hi other table and proceeded to show what real artists can do. Grconleaf '3 punctuated his work with two sensa-tlonal sensa-tlonal runs. His opponent. Jerome Keogh, also camo through with some remarkable shots. fli Greenlcaf scores was 102 in 3 In- k 1 nings havlngk high run of 31-34. Hi Following tho gamo both stars en-tcrtainod en-tcrtainod with their fancy shot pro-gram. pro-gram. The arrangement for tho entertain-was entertain-was in the efficient hands of J. W Ryland, Steward of the Weber club. H |