1923 Billiard Tournament Results
Reported from the 1924 Chicago Daily News and Almanac:
Hoppe vs Schaefer (18.2 balk-line)
Willie Hoppe, 18-2 balk-line billiard champion, defeated Jake Schaefer, former champion in a 1,500-point match played in three blocks March 12, 13 and 14, 1923, in New York city. Schaefer won the first game 500 to 277 in twelve innings; Hoppe took the second with a score of 723 to 494 in twenty-one innings and the third with a score of 500 to 347 in twelve innings. Score by innings for entire match:
Hoppe- 25, 30, 1, 0, 44, 0, 1, 94, 0, 43, 1, 38, 14, 0, 1, 1, 10, 22, 98, 0, 2, 143, 3, 3, 5, 26, 101, 37, 0, 68, 62, 28, 142, 1, 186, 2, 30, 113, 43, 4, 2, 0, 55, 21. Total 1500. Grand Average, 34 4-44; High Runs, 186, 143, 142.
Schaefer- 66, 100, 0, 4, 139, 0, 1, 69, 2, 26, 73, 29, 25, 1, 9, 53, 37, 80, 2, 1, 66, 1, 0, 9, 1, 22, 40, 1, 71, 61, 3, 2, 3, 0, 0, 1, 244, 1, 37,26, 0, 29, 6. Total 1341. Grand Average, 31 8-43; High Runs, 244, 139, 100.
Referee- Harry Cline of Philadelphia
Schaefer vs Conti (18-2)
In a series of three balk-line billiard games, played in Chicago, Jan 8, 9 and 10. 1923. Jake Schaefer defeated Roger Conti, the French Champion, by a total score of 1500 to 781.
Three Cushion Billiards, National Professional Championship
Tiff Denton of Kansas City won the 1923 national professional championship of the National Championship Three-Cushion Billiard league at Philadelphia, PA. Sept. 29. His opponents in the series, which began in St. Louis, were Arthur Reiselt, Philadelphia; John Layton, St. Louis, and Robert Cannefax of New York. The final standing was: Denton 8/4; Reiselt 7/5; Layton 7/5; Cannefax 2/10.
National Amateur Championship
Robert M. Lord of the Illinois Athletic Club, Chicago, won the national amateur three-cushion billiard championship of the United States in a tournament held in Brooklyn, N.Y., and ending March 31, 1923. In the last game of the final round, he defeated Allen V. Ryan of the Amateur Billiard Club of New York city by a score of 50 to 41 in eighty-five innings. The standing of of the players in the final round was: R.M. Lord 3/0; A.V. Ryan 2/1; Charles Hanf 0/2; H.L. Turk 0/2.
Interstate Championship
The final official standing of the players contesting for the championship in the interstate three-cushion billiard season ending the second week in April, 1923. was:
Player |
City |
Wins |
Losses |
High
Run |
John
Layton |
St.
Louis |
39 |
13 |
11 |
Cannefax |
New
York |
37 |
15 |
10 |
Tiff
Denton |
Kansas
City |
37 |
15 |
14 |
Otto
Reiselt |
Philadelphia |
36 |
16 |
12 |
Jackson |
Detroit |
32 |
20 |
10 |
Heal |
Toldedo |
26 |
26 |
13 |
Maupome |
Chicago |
25 |
27 |
11 |
Wakefield |
Milwaukee |
22 |
30 |
10 |
Moore |
New
York |
22 |
30 |
9 |
McCourt |
Philadelphia |
20 |
32 |
12 |
Lopez |
Cleveland |
19 |
33 |
13 |
Lookabaugh |
Pittsburgh |
18 |
34 |
10 |
Gillette |
Buffalo |
17 |
35 |
8 |
Hahman |
Cleveland |
14 |
38 |
14 |
Illinois Three-Cushion Championship
Walter A. Schwietzka of Champaign won the Illinois Three-Cushion billiard championship in the final game of the tournament held in Champaign and ending Feb. 20. 1923, by defeating F.G. Fitzpatrick of Chicago 50 to 30 in seventy-three innings. Arthur Peterson of Rockford was second. W.R. Collier of Chicago third and Fitzpatrick fourth. Champions since 1920: