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Show I REVIVIFIED DE 0R0 JOLTS OSLER IDEA j BY DEFEATNG YOUNG AUGIE KIECKHEFER Winner of Three-Cushion Billiard Championship. The fact of Alfredo de Oro at fifty-six fifty-six years of age regaining the three-cushion three-cushion billiard title" that had been wrested from him by August Kieck-hefor Kieck-hefor a year ago emphasizes the fact that n;;e is no bar to the playing of championship billiards. This is another an-other rebuff to Doctor Osier and his theory that a man is useless after passing forty and might as well be chloroformed. Displays Great Skill. Although De Oro has been an active billiard expert for nearly thirty years and was supposed to have retrogressed he suddenly displayed a skill that overwhelmed over-whelmed a youth genera'.ly regarded as the greatest champion the angle game ever has known. Not only did De Oro win the match and recover the emblem, but he played some remarkable remark-able billiards. He scored 50 points in 35 innings, which is quite a feat at three cushions, and finished his entire quota of 150 points in 145 innings. This feat by the veteran is all the more astonishing because of the physical physi-cal ills that he has suffered at frequent intervals. Intestinal trouble has com- pelled De Oro to submit to a series of serious surgical operations and while he always has emerged with characteristic character-istic courage and grit there cannot be any doubt that his vitality suffered. Other Old Players. De Oro is not the only billiard expert ex-pert who has performed with remarkable remark-able skill after passing his fortieth year. Maurice Yignaux, the famous French player, hel'd the championship at 1S1 after he had passed his fiftieth year, and he defeated players like Schaefer, Slosson and others who were younger than the Parisian. True, Vignaux was eventually dethroned by an eighteen-year-old boy, Willie Iloppe, who beat the veteran expert at the hardest game played 18.1. It was not that the Frenchman had lost his cunning cun-ning at the time, hut because the youngster played phenomenally and would have beaten any man in the world at that stage of his career. Maurice Daly, George Slosson and Jacob Schaefer, the elder, all played great billiards after they had passed the fifty-year mark, and the same is true of many other experts. |