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==Retirement and the Decline of Billiards== |
==Retirement and the Decline of Billiards== |
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From the early to the mid-1900s, carom billiards has been the popular cue sport in the United States. Because of Hoppe's successes, he became a great icon in it. When he retired in 1952, this |
From the early to the mid-1900s, carom billiards has been the popular cue sport in the United States. Because of Hoppe's successes, he became a great icon in it. When he retired in 1952, this lead to downfall of carom's popularity. Although there were other players still active, spectators perhaps felt the game was never the same without him in competition. From there, pocket billiards took over as the popular cue sport. |
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==Titles and tournament wins== |
==Titles and tournament wins== |
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Revision as of 09:15, 18 September 2007
William Frederick Hoppe, (b. October 11, 1887, Cornwall on Hudson, New York, USA; d. February 1, 1959), known predominantly as Willie Hoppe, was an internationally renowned American professional carom billiards champion, and was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1966.
Professional career
He won 51 world titles between 1906 and 1952. Other things that brought him to fame were his high runs in three forms of the sport. These are 2,000 in straight rail, 622 in 18.2 balkline, and 25 in three-cushion. He once made a tournament average of 1.333, a world record (at that time, but since broken).
Hoppe published his first book, Thirty Years of Billiards (ISBN 0486231267), in 1925, and followed this up many years later with the introductory work, Billiards As It Should Be Played (ISBN 0809288370), in 1941.
After winning the world title in 1952, Hoppe became a "goodwill ambassador" for the sport by conducting a series of exhibition matches.
In their column on how to pronounce names, Literary Digest said of Hoppe, "According to an intimate friend of many years' standing, it rimes[sic] with copy".[1]
Retirement and the Decline of Billiards
From the early to the mid-1900s, carom billiards has been the popular cue sport in the United States. Because of Hoppe's successes, he became a great icon in it. When he retired in 1952, this lead to downfall of carom's popularity. Although there were other players still active, spectators perhaps felt the game was never the same without him in competition. From there, pocket billiards took over as the popular cue sport.
Titles and tournament wins
- 1906 World 18.1 Balkline Champion (at age 18)
- 1907 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1908 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1909 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1910 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1910 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1911 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1911 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1912 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1913 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1914 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1914 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1915 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1915 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1916 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1916 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1917 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1917 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1918 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1918 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1919 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1919 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1920 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1920 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1921 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1922 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1923 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1923 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1924 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1924 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1925 World 18.1 Balkline Champion
- 1926 World 18.1 Balkline Champion[citation needed]
- 1927 World 18.1 Balkline Champion[citation needed]
- 1927 World 18.2 Balkline Champion
- 1936 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1940 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1941 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1942 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1943 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1947 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1948 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1949 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1950 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1951 World Three-cushion Champion
- 1952 World Three-cushion Champion
References
- ^ Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936
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