Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — CUE TITLE GOES TO CONKLIN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CUE TITLE GOES TO CONKLIN

Representative of Illinois Athletfo Club Carrie* Off First Honors in Billiard Tournament. Charles F. Conklin, member of the L *A. C. in Chicago, winner of the world’s 18.2 balkline championship for amateurs in the concluding match at the Liederkranz club the other night and national amateur champion in 1906; has returned to Chicago. He

will engage in exhibition matches there. Not only did the Chicago stereotyper capture the title In a decisive manner, defeating former National Champion Ferdinand Poggenburg, 400 to 294, but he achieved the best grand average mark of the tourney, 12 46-62. which is a distinction tournament winners always like to have. “Poggle” takes second prize and two minor awards for best individual average, trifle over 16, and high run, 106 points.