The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-03-25
BILLIARD EXPERTS
STAGE SOME GREAT
EXHIBITION HERE
Koii Yamada Wins All Four
Games From George SpeerS
at Subway
BY MARVIN MCCARTHY

Members of Brmingham's cue frater-
nifty who attended the exhibitions by
George Speers and Koji Yamada at the
Subway parlors yesterday are no doubt
this morning entertaining desires to get
their mitts on the prescription with
which these billiard experts doctored
their worries yesterday. 1t must have a
kick of some kind in it.
All kinds of shots were identified at
the exhibitions, while some of EN-
couldn't even be classified. From straight
billiard shots the two masters moved up
to bank and the difficult masse Shots
That's as far as we can get in naming
the different shots, but fancy shooting
was much in evidence during both the
afternoon and night sessions yesterday.
~ YAMADA WON GAMES
Koji Yamada won all four games
played yesterday. In the afternoon game
of straight rail billiards. he ran his 100
points without miss. He also won the
balk line game, defeating Speers, $50 to
104. In this game, Yamada had long
run of 75. averaging so to the shot, while
Speers had high run of 50, averag
ing &c..
Last night, Yamada won both games
again. Play was a bit slower than in
the afternoon. that is, competitive play
was Exhibition shooting was entirely
up to standard. Yamada won the balk
line billiard game with an unfinished run
of As, which was high for the night
GONE HOG-WILD
1t must of made Daddy Speers mao
to lose that last game to Yamada last
night, for he started doing some mighty
peculiar things with those worries. MOI
content with making the cue ball dodge
around the others like small fish being
chased by an octopus, he made it jump
over the others, literally and otherwise.
Yamada held a cue above the table top,
about six inches from the green, and
Speers sent the cue ball flying in long
hurdle after it had hit both of the OBJ
ject balls.
May George Washigtons picture
not fall from the wall, for the follow
ing must be said. Speers made bill
lizard in a derby He placed the cue
ball and one object ball on the table.
Two additional object balls were place
in derby, which was set in the mid
die of the table. Speers hit the first
object ball with his cue ball, and some
leap into the air and fall into the
derby, hitting both balls inside
YAMADA AT THE BAT
Koji Yamada had an inning. His
masse shots were nothing short of
marvellous, and his exhibition of trick
shots was much enjoyed. Probably
the most sensational of these was the
following: Yamada placed one object
ball on the spot Taking the other he
balanced it on the spotted ball tap
ping it with the cue ball to make 1t
stay in place. Then he squared off and
shot. The cue ball struck the bottom
ball squarely, english" carrying i.
to the rail. The top object ball fell
to the spot and the cue ball, after TAX
ing two rails, tapped the second ob-
ject ball for a billiard of some kind.
Other fancy shots were demonstrated
to the audience. Taken all in ALL 1t
was one Of the classiest exhibitions of
billiards ever staged in Birmingham.
and one much enjoyed by those who at
tended the entertainments.
Frank Taberski, champion pocket
billiards player, known as pool
slicker' in the vernacular of the sport.
will appear here in an exhibition match
on April 4. This event. like that of
yesterday, will be staged under the
auspices of the Ala bama Billiard asso
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