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WILLIE HOPPE 18 the greatest billiard player in the world. He beat me in a little game called three cushion billiards. Te say Mr. Hoppe beat me soundly Is wrong. He skunked me. : Sn? After his first shot; I saw Mr. Hoppe could to beat me. That man is good. We played in the Board of Trade parlors, ! The game started out even. He had a cue stick, I had a cue stick and there were three balls on the table in, break position. “Shall we lag for break honors, Mr. Hoppe?" No-—go.ahead and break. I'll take a handicap,” Mr. Hoppe said, chalking his cue. Closing my left eye, aiming with my right and getting that natural swing in my arm and body I poked the cue ball a good one. The red object ball bounced merrily from one cushion to another and came to a stop. Score: 0-0. - ‘ v “Do you use the diamond system,” Mr. Hoppe asked. \ Diamond system? Someplace In my poolroom experience I had run across the diamond system but’ I couldn't remember what it was exactly. Stance,

shot or variation of the game? I didn't want to show my ignorance. “Well I use a modified diamond system. Sometimes diamond and sometimes just plain billiards.” That, I thought was a safe answer to give Mr,

DIAMOND SYSTEM ?—Ed Sovola (left) looks so confident because his game with Willie Hoppe (right) hadn't started yet when the picture was - taken,

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Hoppe. There was » raucous gufaw from the crova| SECOND SECTION ~~ ' WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2,147 Mr. Hoppe studied the billiard balls for a. few| Er A the ie rT

seconds. Why was he smiling? Why was thé crowd looking in my direction and laughing? In the eyes of four onlookers I could see the words “This is going to bé murder—Mac.” y » Mr. Hoppe shot. This is a good tine to explain what a run in billiards is. The Billiard Association of America official rule book defines a run. as “a series of consecutive scores or counts in one inning.”

An Explanation IT SAYS NOTHING about a run of six liké Mr. Hoppe made. system bothered me. “Mr. Hoppe, do you use the diamond system?” I asked in a whisper. : : “Yes,” he whispered back. “Do you have time to explain and show it to me,” I whispered again. . : The crowd strained forward. Mr. Hoppe rubbed his hand across his forehead. But he's a good sport, “Well, it’s a bit complicated—but I guess I can give you a nutshell version of the diamond system,” he answered. Asking for an explanation of the diamond system I found is like asking for a two-minute detailed explanation of Einstein's theory of relativity, As I remember it (billiard players be kind to me), the system has something to do with angles. table is marked off with'diamonds, seven to a long side and three on the short side or end of the table. The system also has something to do with geometry,

A Simple Shot

“NOW WATCH CLOSELY and I'll illustrate a

simple three-cushion shet,” Mr. Hoppe instructed.

The object ball (red) was on diamond line three ;?} in the center of the table. The cue ball was on about | , the three-and-a-half diamond about a foot away.

The third ball was on diamond line five on the other side. Mr. Hoppe hit the cue ball with a firm, sharp but easy stroke. Looked simple, The cue ball bgunced off the red object ball, hit the back cushion about in the middle, came back to the three diamond,

traveled across the table and hit a few inches to the |

left of number eight diamond on the head of the table and then nudged the ball on the diamond line five. “Got it?” Mr, Hoppe asked. “No,” 1 answered. He moved the balls around. I was to watch carefully as he was going to attempt another illustration. “See—a ball hit from cue ball position number five to diamond four on the opposite rail will go to diamond one on the third rail and to diamond seven at the head of the table.” “Mr; Hoppe, what do you say we knock this thing off until the next time you give an exhibition in the city.”

Mr. Hoppe was all for it—the crowd heaved a|

sigh of relief and I went in search of a diagrammed book explaining in detail the diamond system. Gad-—that Hoppe is a whiz.

Union Spooks

By Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.—Beauty about a ghost marching in a picket line during a strike is that he doesn’t take time out to eat. He never gets hungry. He just tramps back and forth in his invisible shrouds, chewing his phantom gum and snarling spevtral insults, “Ghosts?” asked a flesh-and-blood senator, name of Robert A. Taft. He comes from Ohio, heads the senate labor committee, and would be the first to admit .the difficulty of controlling by law wraiths walking two-by-two in front of the employees’ entrance, “Yes sir, ghosts,” replied Almon E. Roth of San Francisco, president of the National Federation of American Shipping, Inc. ‘Or at least that's what we call 'em on the waterfront.”

Two Species Identified

THERE ARE TWO kinds of ghosts on strike. The tall, gray-haired Mr. Roth has encountered both varieties of union spook. He was delighted to describe for the senators their phantasmal operations. Not long ago, he said, three large freighters of the Luckenbach lines steamed into the San Francisco harbor to unload cargoes from the far corners of the earth. - The radio operator aboard one of these vessely, rightly or wrongly, was sore at the captain. He painted a sign and as soon as his ship docked he declared a one-man strike and began to picket the pier. “This effectively stopped unloading of the three ships,” Mr. Roth testified. “No matter what an individual longshoreman Or sailor may think, the. industry is so highly unionized that any man who crosses any picket line is marked .for life. Odds are against him ever getting a job again. So the radio operator maintained his own picket line until he got hungfy.”

Then he painted another sign and placed it in front of the pier; it said: “Picket out to lunch— will be back at 1:30 p. m.” Nobody crossed the imaginary, or ghostly picket line, either, Mr. Roth said. The second type of ghost, even more exasperating to the shipping men, never shows his face at all Nobody ever knows what his grievance is. : An example of that, Mr. Roth said, was when nine cars of Oregon pears arrived at the San Francisco docks for shipment abroad. The Oregon pear pickers, unhappy about something unknown in San Francisco, scribbled on the side of each freight car the words: “Hot cargo.” “So nobody would touch those pears” Mr. Roth said. “Ghostly pickets stopped their movement as effectively as live ones.”

Nobody in San Francisco ever learned the cause |

of the strife in the Oregon orchards, nor even who scribbled the phantasmal warnings on the cars. The pears rotted, no good except, of course, for ghosts.

He Wants a Law

A THIRD situation, not quite so spooky, found the engineers aboard the ships of the United Fruit] Co., voting 6 to 1 in a national labor relations board’ election against the Marine Engineers Beneficial association as their representative. All hands thought that particular ghost had been buried. “But no,” Mr. Roth testified. “The beneficial assosation threw picket lines around the piers in New York. Seamen and longshoremen alike dared not cross them and 38 vessels of the fruit company were tied up.” ; : Mr. Roth turned the .ghosts over to the senate. | He said there ought to be a law and he only hopes | (he having little faith in clairvoyancy) that it works. |

Stars Are Sissies

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 12.—Hollywood’s current crop of movie heroes are a bunch of sissies whe it comes to food. They like sandwiches and cottage cheese and

fruit salads and milk for lunch. “They're not the he-men Pauline Kessinger sighed. Pauline is an old-timer herself. She started 19 years ago as a waitress in the Paramount studio cafe. Now she's the manager. And she yearns for the old days “when men ate like men.” The favorite luncheon dish of Paramount's male stars 19 years ago, Pauline told us, was tartar steak— ground sirloin mixed with raw eggs and chopped raw onions. “We didn't cook them,” Pauline said. “We served 'em raw.” (With a halter to keep them on the plate, no doubt). “But now,” Pauline said, “I can't interest anybody in tartar steak—all they want is salads.” J And the ladies?—"“They don't eat anything” Pauline sald. J

the old-timers were,”

Barbara Never Hungry

“TAKE BARBARA STANWYCK for example. She Just doesn't like food—at least, she never has an appetite when. she’s working. We never ask what she wants, because she'd say she didn’t want anything.

By Erskine Johnson

“So I just send the most tempting dish on the menu over to her dressing-room every day and hope she'll eat it—and then she doesn’t eat it.” We can report today that we worked at Columbia] studio for 20 whole minutes and nobody swore at us) and we're not going to sue anybody. But maybe Co-| lumbia or Cohn will sué¢ us, after seeing our face in the movie “The Corpse Came C. O. D.”

Johnson Plays Johnson

NO, WE DIDN'T play the corpse. (Could be, though, if ®rankie boy continues to pack a gun). We

played a character named Johnson for a scene with!’

some other characters who write movie columns. | “The Corpse,” a mystery thriller, has a Hollywood! background and was written by a movie columnist, Jimmy Starr. So it's appropriate’ we guess, to open| the picture with our mugs leering out at the audience, | although the corpse may have been less frightening. | The stars of the piece, Joan Blondell and George! Brent, weren't working, but. Adele Jergens, who plays a movie queen in the film, was present to posé with us for some publicity pictures. The studio took no! chances on not getting the pictures into print—Adele was wearing a filmy negligee and a black lace nightgown. The corpse that came C. O. D. almost went A. W. O. L. after seeing Adele in the arms of Johnson, who' left the set E. B. H. (exhausted but happy). |

We, the Women

AGAIN Americans are preparing to celebrate National . Brotherhood week, Feb. 17-23. A fine idea, you say. But what are you gqing to do about it? i If the answer is “Nothing,” the fine idea won't help much to increase tolerance and understanding in America. If it is going to amount .to anything, it has got to be a week when we all face our own prejudices and intolerances and admit. them to ourselves but to no one else. And then we must determine to rid ourselves of them, for the sake of our country’s unity and for the sake of our own mental and .spiritual growth,

Limit Your Experience :

SAY YOU'VE been nursing along a .prejudice against some racial, réligious, or national group. Just what are the harmful effects? i In the first place you wrong the individual mem-

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By Ruth Millet |

bers of the group by refusing to see_them and judge them as individuals. Secondly, you set limits on your own associa-| tions and experiences when you’ let a narrow-minded prejudice shut you off from friendship or friendly dealings with a whole group of people. Thirdly, even though you may never know it, you get a reputation as a “hater.” “I consider myself

that some kind of prejudice is lurking behind the professed tolerance,

Bigotry Helps No One

FOURTHLY-—and this is perhaps the most dangerous effect of all—you'll be sure to pass on your own intolerance to your friends, to casual acquaintances, to your children! : : _Those are four of the ways in which prejudice will hurt you .and others. There is not even one way in which it will benefit -anybody,

By Ed Sovola |

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Young And Old

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MAT MEN—Miles Henderson, Y. M. C. A. wrestling instructor; watches the progress of (left to right) Sam Burge, 718 S. Keystone ave., and John Greenwald, 225 N. Hamilton ave. This is one of the many activities open to "Y" youth. :

| EAGER FACES—These six youngsters crowd Y. M. C. A. Clerk Larry Poe to ob- | tain record cards authorizing Saturday morning activities at the Central "Y." They are (left to right) Jackie Agan, 357 Parkway; Dickie Millikan, 826 Lincoln st.: Mike Mec- | Intosh, 858 Woodruff Place, E. dr.; Paul and Don Cherry, 215!/; E. North st., and Neil Heitz, 903!/; E. Market st. About 150 boys attend the sessions.

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HOME AWAY FROM HOME—The 350 men who live in the Central "Y" come from 16 states, territories and foreign countries. They represent all types of religious faiths and most of them are veterans. Many are students while others are employed by local concerns. One thing they all have in common is their "'Y" membership. Here a group talks with Ted Imbry, room cleck, in an informal picture.

SWEAT OF BROW — A popular class is welding. Youths may join if they enroll in the membership drive Feb. 17-28. Left to right, Howard Scott, 3340 E. Vermont st.; Elmer Roosa, 823 E. New York st.; Ben Ahfield, 2207 Roosevelt ave., and John Allen, 1737 Thaddeus st.

ALWAYS A YOUTH—Older men find the "¥* a fine place for health building and physical recreation. . Tom Smith, 938 S. East st., is a world war Il veteran and handball champion of the city organization.

THE HEAD MAN—Joe Underwood, Louisville, Ky. (right), received the key to the

Y.M. C. A. Circle City when he was elected mayor. With him is Arthur Williams, Central "'Y" executive secretary. Purpose of the city is to acquaint youths with governmental procedure and regulate affairs in the building.

Young Mineral Collector Women of Moose Housewife, 26.1 Trainees Founds Society; Journal |To Hear Teacher Get $260,000 Pottery Order

Miss Betty J. Lind, teacher of | : a ' By Science Sarvice study of minerals, He has classified physical education add health at| TOPEKA, Kas, Feb. 12 (U. P..[sign for sale in 8 Topeka store and PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12—Min- and arranged his own collection of | Whittier school 33, —Beginning as a hobby, Mrs. Har- finally was persuaded to go to Chie ley Short's clay modeling had|cago and show her wares. The res ©

eral collecting, a frequent enough Tope than 1000 specimens, and has (wil be guest: hed the big busi tor RN ; ‘ \performed a like work on the high speaker on the reac e ness stage today. sult p was the t for hobby ‘with . high school students, school’s collection of the same eh committee § She had a $260,000 order. 175,000 each of seven tems oglazed was not enough for Jerome M, Ei- (which had lain neglected for many chapter night | | The gray-haired housewife and flower blocks, bowls and five types senberg, senior at Central high years. In addition, he has recondi- program, of the {mother was flabbergasted. Her little of pitchers. i school here. {tioned and put into use several Women of the {pottery concern has two ex-G, L's| Her little shop is littered with her To promote the early study of |Pleces of mineralogical apparatus Moose, at 8 p. m. | working as on the job trainess. glazed colored pottery pieces, from 'that had been gathering dust. tomorrow in the That's all. , two-foot ‘high ladies’ in hoop skirts Young Mr. Eisenberg is a winner Moose temple, 135 She said “I'll have to get 10 more to spindle-legged colts and pitchers in the sixth annual science talent! N. Delaware st. [to help the three of us, at least 10) the size of thimbles. Not a chemist, search for the Westinghouse science | Mrs. Christine | more.” : she neverthelss develops her own The mammoth order for more; colors, oy : than half a mililoy clay figures was| Wondering just how much trots

mineralogy among teen-agers and to help them enlarge their collections, he founded the Junior Mineral Exchange. The exchange now

scholarships. ‘With 39 other high |Ruffn, ritual

has members In 16 states. He also |o,,05) genjors from all over the [chalrman, will be Muss Lind started a publication for his new (niieq gtates, he will attend the in charge of the program. Initiation |from a Chicago mail order house. (ble she will run into expanding soclety. Science Talent Institute, to be held |of candidates will be held. Mrs. Short considered it proof of erations, getting ~maore p Membership ‘In the Junior Min- |," waghington, D, ©, Feb. 28 —— her oft-repeated claim that Kansas wheels, kilns, gl acilities eral Exchange is very exclusive—at |ynroueh March 4. Only 2 Shi k clay just east of Topeka is “as fine Workers, Mrs. Short isn't the upper end. A junior collector a nly ips to Dock, |; pottery material as any clay in/about one thing—the becomes “too old” at 18, and is then | ppp 10 THANK CHILDREN Sail From N. Y. Today the ni Hein Yours ih She owns nine acres Young Mr. Eisenberg has, even at | VATICAN CITY, Feb. 12 (U. P).| NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (U. P..—| Eight years ago, just for fur, she 16, moved into big-league miner-|—The Vatican announced today ship movements in New York har-|modeled her daughter's head. She alogical company. He has written [that His Holiness Pope Pius XII por today : ton a kept on modeling, and kept on for Rocks and Minerals magazine, | will’ address children of the United! : boost. the used. quarters personnel and is feature editor for Earth States by radio Feb. 9, thanking| Arriving—Jutiandia ‘trom Copen- Dn is Say De, she os to Science Digest. {them for their aid to needy Euro- N28€n. [say is His editorial work has not inter- peans. The hour of the broadcast Departing—Port Amherst lo Ber- Going into the business, she] ferred with his active collecting and {had not been set, imuda. ‘turned out figures of her own dedE {a : 3