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Jacob Schaefer Sr.

Index Jacob Schaefer Sr.

Jacob (Jake) Schaefer Sr. (2 February 1855 – 8 March 1910), nicknamed "the Wizard", was a professional carom billiards player, especially of the straight rail and balkline games, and was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1968. [1]

7 relations: Balkline and straight rail, Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame, Carom billiards, Denver, Jacob Schaefer Jr., Milwaukee, Willie Hoppe.

Balkline and straight rail

Balkline (sometimes spelled balk line or balk-line) is the overarching title of a large array of carom billiards games generally played with two and a third, red, on a -covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, less table that is divided by on the cloth into marked regions called.

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Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame

This is the list of people inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's hall of fame.

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Carom billiards

Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole (and in some cases used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive), is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds.

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Jacob Schaefer Jr.

Jacob (Jake) Schaefer Jr. (born 18 October 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., died 10 November 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) was a professional carom billiards player with German grandparentage, a specialist in balkline games, and was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1968.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Willie Hoppe

William Frederick Hoppe (October 11, 1887 – February 1, 1959), known predominantly as Willie Hoppe (surname rhymes with "poppy"), was an internationally renowned American professional carom billiards champion, who was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1966.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schaefer_Sr.

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