The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-30
HOPPE AND ALLEN ARE READL|NERS IN BILLIARD WORLD Review of 1915ShOws Cham piOns Uphold Records. Principal Events of
 Year Given

New York. December 29.-(SpeciaI) William F. Hoppe of New York, AL fredo DeOro of New York and Bennie Allen of Kansas City are again the headliners in the cue world as they were @ year ago. Hoppe retained the 14-1, 1S-1 and 1S-2 balSline titles He won the last named emblem outright last year and in the only match for the 14-1 title this year he defeated Koji Yamada, 1900 to 1231
 Although Hoppe has held one or more of the titles continuously since 1910 his supremacy never has been so firmly established as this year. This led to the holding of a handicap 18-2 tournament at New York in November, in which the champion was at scratch. He won five straight games and on the final night against Welker Coch- ran of Chicago made a worlds record run in tournament competition of 30S, beating the mark made by himself al Chicago in 1906 by one point.
 The worlds three cushion tourna- ment for the Brunswick emblem staged in March at Chicago, proved the big sest billiard event of the year; over 1S.G00 persons attending. George Moore of New York became the new cham pion by winning a triple tie in which William Huey of Chicago and John Daily of New York finished second and third respectively. Moore defeated De- Orc, but later was defeated by Huey, who on October IS, surrendered the emblem to the donors. DeOro being the next challenger, again became cham pion and defended his tile by winning from August Kieckhefer of Chicago.
 In this match the veteran Cuban set worlds championship record of 35 in- nings for 50 points and for the whole match set another worlds champion ship mark by making 150 points in IA innings.
 Ben Allen of Kansas City won the pocket billiard emblem outright last year and as no tournament was staged, he retains the title.
 The Interstate Three Cushion League enlsrged it's circuit now having 70 players. Charles Ellis, the Cleveland southpaw, won the 1914-1915 event. The race among the leaders in the present tournament is exceedingly close.
 The principal events for the year fol- low:
 January 6---Frank Ely won three cushion championship of Pacific coast at San Francisco.
 January 12-Hal Coleman, New York, won Class B amateur 1S2 champion ship at New York.
 March 12--Joe Mayer Philadelphia, won the national amateur 1S-2 cham picnship at Philadelphia, winning six straight games. J. r. Poggenburg, New ! ork, second
 won worlds three cushion tournament at Chicago after playoff of tie With William Huey, Chicago, and John Daly, New York. A DeOro was fourth
 April 12-Jess Lean made run of IS at three cushions in practice game al Chicago.
 April 29-Charles Ellis, Cleveland, defeated August Kieckhefer. Milwau kee, 100 to S5, in playoff of tie for championship of Interstate Three Cush- ion league
 April 30-Mike Petrie won elimina- tion pocket billiard tournament at Chi cago.
 May 19-George Moore New York, retained pocket billiard title by 6e- icdtii5 <hs bcoipr ANN" tA' NNN W IA at New York.
 May 20-Charles Morin, Chicago, made run of IS in three cushion game against Frank Benson at St. Louis.
 May 23-Ben Allen, Kansas City, won elimination pocket billiard tourna- ment at Kansas City.
 September SOW. Huey. Chicago, won worlds three cushion title by de- feating G. Moore at New York 15O to 13s.
 October 1S-Huey returned Bruns- wick emblem to donors, the title re- verting to DeOro.
 October 22-Willie Hoppe, New York, defeated Koji Yamada, New York, 150O to 1231 for 14-1 champion ship. Hoppe averaged 16 44-91.
 November 23-Wille Hoppe won 1S-2 handicap tournament at New York, taking five straight games with grand average of s2 25-67. Set worlds rec ord for championship with high run of 30S W. Cochran, Chicago finished second.
 December A. DeOro, New York. retained worlds three cushion title by defeating A. Kieckhefer, Chicago. l5o to 9S at Chicago. Made worlds cham pionship record of 50 points in S5 in nings.