Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-25
sCANNEFAX GREAT FIGURE
AMONG BIC CUE ARTISTS
HIS Career in Billiard World Has
Been Almost as Spectacular rs
That OF Cobb i'm Baseball.
ALWAYS DOING THE UNUSUAL
Did Not Take Up Cushion Billiards
Until -Four Years Ago, but Has
Since Defeated De Orc. and NOW
Holds the Championship.
BY JAMES j. CoRBETT.

Bob Cannefax has been iisurc in
the Piilard world Sim0S, ; as lie IS
always pulling" the unexpected; al.
ways performing novel tricks and
handicap stunts that BRING Sasps OF
Eigh; years ago. when CannetaN had
not quite reached voting age. he
dropped into billiard academy in ST.
cred Emmett Biankenme.s;er oncetime
worlds pocke; billiard champion.
Would YOU like TO play me- asked
BlankenmeiSter.
mot at evcns." replied CannefaN.
But I'll play 100 balls to yoour eight
provided YOU shoot the cisht in the
Blankenmeister eagerly accepted the
challenge after side bet of $50 had
been made. II looked to him the easiest
thing in the world TO score eight balls
in the side pockets before CannefaX
could pocket 100. But Cannefax won
by the overwhelming score OF 100 TO >.
Blankenmei:;er was repeated through
the years on all other pool sharks and
CannefaN never lost such a handica p
match.
Has Advantage in stunt.
1T seems like foolish match for
me 10 offer 10 run 100 balls TO the other
lelo~s eisht under SUCH conditions.
h Nave sI ba But in really
shoot balls in any pocket that choose
enables me TO make long runs. AS soon
as sn am p1o up against it and cannot make
myself, play 1t safe and leave the
cue ga! in such position that it IS
drop b a nto ,b For s,d an opPoneni
Canncfax. through the carly years.
speeia,ized merely IN pocket pool, ana
in the business. His best work was
done in matches where big sums vcrc
,unSo!yed or where titles We're at stake.
re always mas risen TO his suprcmc
heights as a player just when mirac,,.
tous shooting is necessary lie de :
f be @Io Benny MIiya A Allen at pool Nlfred
has known. poot game
NF . f9uT years ago Frank Benson.
s S was conducting pool parlor in
81 Louis, said to Cannefax: al
becomes Great BiIIfnrdi,t.
sboo 9o, you've, cleaned up all the pool
ensHien bj nGw you 30 in for three.
where you will do your best worls @'he
Cannefax hardened 10 the advic, =,
b his ,rtena and took up three cushion
was playing so brilliantly tha, me ne
d:ctions were made that before ,i5 =
year was out he would anneS thc
er afla =, 'h,hsm ian II he ever got
came to him TO play Charles ArcCour;
or Cleveland. who was the king Of
me three cushion players And Can.
AetaA maze good.
McCourt won the first block OF tho
100 point play by the score OF so 70
a. and triumphed the second nirht
80 10 A.. AS the men entered piaT
ior me hnal block, Cannefax was IL
10 the bad. But, undaunted, he ven,
ahead and proved the assertion Of
MS Hends that he is the 'Eichti-s
guy that ever handled cue" BY run
ning g. points while Mccourt was
scoring but 50. This gave Cannofax
the match and the championship, i50
De Orc Defeats Him in 1917.
In September. 1917. Cannetax play
ed Alfred De ORC. and the remark
able Cuban beat him in g. Louis -,
the score OF $50 10 4s. T'aat -n.,rA
stands forth as perhaps n. creates.
ever played in the entire his:o-~ o.
the billiard game. The lead a!.e-r.-. ri
more than score Of tiines
the three nights play, and The ISSUE
was in doubt during al-ncs. .v+-..
minute OF tho final nights saco,t--
De Orc had forged 20 the Con. C...
nefaX overhauled him, SURRENDERED .-s
lead. regained Il, lost il. go; s.: back
again and was tiGd- A:.d 50 ,hey so.
until the score vas Cshaefax iis ana