Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-22
Billiard Champions Made Not
Born, Says NelU Amateur Kinq
Edgar Appleby Finds Road to Peak Thorny One and
Full of Hard Work-Brotherly Rivalry Helped.
Set T,Uo Ne,U Marks in Final
By JOE MAYER ..
National Amateur Billiard Champion 1918 and s1olS.

III cbsmpion. Edgar Il. Appleby won
a. worlds amateur 1872 balk- line bill
v.,s championship last night, and he
".r Il Under wraps. He didn't even
take of his coat. n I.....
Furthermore, in winning he set up
A.. noU records In a tournament which
wv w. hoen running for eight days and
nsh,oS Ind ali the world famous ANA
tsurs as participants.
Young Applcby ran. tho highest run
- i.bn event when he clicked off 123
u.n.,.so,t u. missing. lie also set the best
S,"h average mark. better than Il,
ps, bo went out in fourteen innings.
""sd Sdd 70 that the fact that he. played
A.. hcst billiards displayed In that
.rinplng match last night and you have
|. The high lights.
Applause Storm
Wild scenes prevailed at the end OF
M match when nearly 1000 spectators
trho sat arose and checred as piliiard
SslIeries have never cheered 9 9eLore.
Ennleby defeated Percy =. Colims' '
ihicago. n former national cnam;pton. n;p.or.
100 to 1Os. the widest margin OF ''e'of'
in the tourney. ~ a..
Almost the first to congratulatc tns
rounc champion were ms SISTERS anu
Rrother. Francis s.. who was strohg
sompetitor. The feminine part OF tme
hmily has been in constant attehGanse. me-.
r was a long time before cou'u o;so .tso
Kim away from those showering praise
y" Where he had been oaken hearted
j.. ,ho come. he was trembling from the
T., 'Jown. The high tension he hnu
t.,n undcr was over. lie mopped his
brow. - ', ,,oro his first
IL "" ..1'hat straight carom I fiuked
w'i"' ", IN Tho tenth. had it all sewed up.
I was playing my next shot.
Had Great Chance
Tia was referring to his l2!th at
,smnt TO count in the tenth inning. lie
had needed seven at that point TO run
mt mt for the championship and an aver
sge Of 30. -. ,, oo,
s,r.d "tbat keen a fellow plugging at
M;S game. Darn It. why do those fool
misses have to sneak in.
"Well." he reflected as he dropped
,nto n chair, II guess it's things like
that keen n fellow everlnstingly, ut II.
r. vou could make every shot just as
sor - ~" wanted there wouldn't be much fun
n the game. It's like everything else
when you boot the easy ones you SUCK
"Too bad YOU lost that one match
I volunteered. "or you'd have had
rlean slate through two championships
Tie had won the American champion.
shin two weeks before for the. first time
and hadn't lost match there: ne
lost in this tourney to Edounrd Rudil,
the Frene, champion, bad lacins TOO.
Best Thing
"The best thing that ever happened,
stated Appleby Of that defeat. Every
body has at least one bad game in him
in n tournament, I was lucky to come
through the national unbeaten. but here
that licking at that time was my SAL
yation."
GLOW do you figure that?"
"Well, I got all the bad billiards out
~ me in that beating" the new cham.
pon replied. Tonight I was keen.
lelt like n million dollars. didn't think
I ! could miss and I went right after
'em.
"Supposc I'd been in last nights
form. Gee, they'd have turned out the
lights and swept me out with the score
cards before I'd have finished
Appleby said that he had come to
bay billiards "because it ran in the
family" 1t appears that not only his
father was tournament player, but
blso his grandfather. :.
player" explained the titlcholder. mot
by barrel of sour apples. Billiard
h1aycrs n ron Y horn Thpy're made md