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Show Willie Hoppe and Two Other Champions to Play Here Saturday i ! Weber Club Will Be Scene of Champion Billiard Players . in Action Tomorrow Evening i Willie Hoppe, champion billiard player of the world; Ralph Grcenleaf, pocket billiard champion and Jerome Keogh, ex-champion and five times holder of the title, will be seen In action at tho Weber club Saturday night at 8 o'clock. R. B. Benjamin, billiard promoter, Is In Ogden arranging for their appearance, ap-pearance, he Bald. "Two more brilliant or more spectacular spec-tacular champions over-topped the bill-Hard bill-Hard world than the two headllners now entitled to the leaderahJp In the two popular styles of the cue game. "Willie Hoppe and Ralph Grcenleaf i represent nil that there is groat iuj billiards. They have ability, class. i speed and personality, the winning assets. as-sets. Both went through the national championship tourneys without losing a game and both outclassed the field "Hoppe has been a headllner for two decades and a champion, for more than fourteen years. The Hoppe stylo of billiards is accepted for anything that Hoppe does Is class personfied. But the latest star to break into title ranks Is the youthful Ralph Greenleaf. the twenty year old boy who vron the title last Decomber. , "Hoppe and Greenleaf, along with Charles C." Peterson, fancy shot expert, and Jerome Keogh, a five times pocket billiard champion, will be in this city Saturday! Peterson plays Hoppe and Keogh opposes Greenleaf. "This Is the greatest cue combination combina-tion that ever madean American tour. They play the game as it should be played by experts. "Hoppe and Peterson play 250 points of balkline followed by the fancy shot exhibition. Greenleaf and Keogh play 100 points and fancy shots. "All games will bo played at the Weber club on Saturday everting at S o'clock. "Hoppe and Greenleaf have been playing brilliantly on the American tour. The work thus far even has j surpassed the brilliant play they i flashed in tho national tournament.; Hoppe has averaged only a fraction: under fifty-five thus far on tho tour) while Greenleaf has doubled the av-i erage he made in the title tourney." v Willie Hoppe, billiard champion of the world (top), and! ; Ralph Grcenleaf, pocket billiard champion, in circle; below ! j is Jerome Keogh, ex-champion and five times holder of the j championship. They will appear at the Weber club in action Saturday night. q . . ; ;f' |