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Willie Hoppe

Willie Hoppe (William Frederick Hoppe) , 1887-1959, American billiards champion, b. Cornwall, N.Y. He practiced billiards from a very early age and gave exhibitions before he won (1906) his first world championship in Paris. Hoppe subsequently won many championships in three-cushion and the intricate balkline forms of the game, and when he retired in 1952 after winning his 12th world three-cushion championship (the last 6 in a row), he had won 51 world billiards titles in 46 years of tournament competition. He wrote Thirty Years of Billiards (1925) and Billiards as It Should Be Played (1941).

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	The 1940s: Sports: People in the News Book article from: American Decades ...individual championship. In 1941 Willie Hoppe won the world three-cushion billiard...second consecutive year. In 1949 Willie Hoppe, at age sixty-one, won his sixth...title without a loss since 1937; Hoppe began playing in 1906. On 30 June... Read more
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