Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1911 — HOPPE CAN’T PLAY IN PARIS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOPPE CAN’T PLAY IN PARIS

American Billiard Champion Forbidden to Give Exhibitions in Paris— Demarest Is Worried. The police have refused to modify the order forbidding Willie Hoppe, the young American billiard player, to give exhibitions here. The trouble grows out of his hav-

Ing played In games in which betting was done when be was here before. Calvin Demarest of Chicago continues to play, but he is worried lest the police include him in the drastic order. In many quarters it is believed that Hoppe’s trouble was caused bjr jealousy between local billiardists who own rival halls.

Willie Hoppe.