Billiards Cue Stick presented to Billie Billing
date: label: date made
content: ca 1977
name: label: associated person
content: Billing, Billie
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Joss cue stick made by Danny Janes of Towson, Maryland has a straight grained Canadian Rock maple shaft, inlayed black veneer, stainless steel joint with a brass insert, curly maple butt and ebony and rosewood inlays detailed with green and black inlayed veneer points. The butt has a pressed and polished green-dashed Irish linen wrap, a brown ebony bottom, and a Delrin butt cap with a brown rubber bumper. This cue stick was given to Billie Billing, 1980 National Women's Pocket Billiards Champion and President of the Women's Professional Billiard Alliance (1976-1981), by the top women players in the United States for promoting the first WPBA National Championship held in 1977. Billie Billing won four WPBA National Championships, three Ruth McGinnis Challenge Cups, and a National Amateur Women's Championship.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Billiards
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Billie Billing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0580.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0580
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0580.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cue stick, billiards
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: maple (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ebony (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rosewood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 57 1/2 in x 1 1/2 in; x 146.05 cm x 3.81 cm