Few people have any idea of the earnings of "Crack" British professional at billiards.  In a normal season Inman Reece or Stevenson would think that they had a lean year if they didn't top $15,000 ($238,000 in 2025) - The Star Press - 1/25/1920

Greenleaf is the daring type of player. He discards the safety defense and believes that the best defense is a great attack, thus applying the Glenn Warner system - The Pittsburgh Press - 2/6/1920

Price increase - 60 cents (worth $9 in 2025) per hour- The Tampa Tribune - 2/7/1920

R. B. Benjamin, monarch of billiard promoters, has arrived here and his presence is always a sign that the billiard kings are coming - The Duluth News Tribune - 3/25/1920

A radical change in the 18.2 balkline billiards championship.  Instead of all players taking part in the championship match, a preliminary tournament will be held, the winner of which will endeavor to wrest the crown away from Willie Hippe, present title holder - The Brooklyn Daily News - 9/21/1920

Willie Hopper - has declared a "closed season" on the billiards championship for the next 50 years. "I'm going to keep the billiard championship for the next 15 - 20 years, by that time my son will be old enough to play for the title"
Iowa City Press-Citizen - 1/5/1921

Mark Twain choose billiards for his leisure hours.  It is estimated that 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 games are played per day in the US - The Capital Times - 2/4/1921

The calculgraph, the latest automatic timing device registers due and time of games played - The Duluth Times Tribune - 5/10/1921

All records in 18.1 Balkline billiards was broken yesterday in the World Championship games, by Welker Cochrane of San Francisco, when he ran out in five innings and in the fourth made a high run on 384 in his match with George Sutton of Chicago. - Fall River Daily Evening News - 11/19/1921

Old Jake Schaefer was a worlds champion billiards player until 1908.  Since then, the father has died, but the son, Jake Schaefer, jr. (Hall of Famer) only recently defeated Willie Hoppe for the same title - The Sacramento Union - 1/10/1922

Willie Hoppe - "No matter how well a play may execute all the other shots on a table, if he cannot control his draw shot his game is not sound" - Buffalo Post 2/4/1922

 Leather cue tips are mainly manufactured in France. Chrome leather and chemically treated leather are the latest innovations. - The Winnipeg Tribune - 02/04/1922

Professional Balkline 18.2 Championship to be held in Chicago.  The match will be for $500 ($9,000 in 2025) and the champion, Jacob Schaefer, win or lose, will receive 60% of the box office receipts.  Hoppe will receive 40%.  - Press and Sun Bulletin - 3/27/1922

The famous Recreation building in Detroit has 140 billiards tables and 88 bowling lanes, it is a $1,500,000 ($27,000,000 in 2025$) enterprise. - The Duluth News Tribune - 1/7/1923

Hoppe has been a headliner in billiards for more than 2 decades.  But it was from the eventful day in 1906 when he defeated Vignaux in Paris for the World Championship that he has been "Wonder Willie" - Buffalo Courier - 2/4/1923

Old Harvard University and the University of Georga are not the only two great colleges patronizing billiards and encouraging the playing of the gentlemen's game by their students during their leisure time - Ledger Star - 3/23/1923 

State Representative of Georgia introduced a bill to abolish pools rooms in the state - The Atlanta Journal - 7/8/1923

Fred G. Smith Recreation company opens in Cleveland - 60 billiard tables and 40 bowling alleys - cost $1,100,000 ($18,000,000 in 2025$) - The Plain Dealer - 1/6/1924

Christian Nagle, ivory expert with the biggest billiards and pool company in the world, say on his return from West Africa, that there is a scarcity of ivory - The San Bernadino County Sun- 2/6/1924

We do recall that there has never been a squable among relatives over the fortunes left by professional billiard players - The Commercial Appeal - 3/25/1924

A billiard room, properly speaking, is a place where recreation and innocent amusement are the chief attractions, and where gambling and other questionable practices are prohibited.  The "pool hall" is the exact opposite and the worst enemy of the billiards game has yet to face. Covington Virginian - 10/17/1924

Ralph Greenleaf missed his opportunity to increase his run of 6 World Pocket Billiards Championships but missed this year due to a nervous breakdown - The Herald Statesman - 1/24/1927

Plate pool is a very old-fashioned game.  It is an ordinary billiards game except that a plate is put in the center of the table.  If you   When the plate is hit by any ball the player drops out - The Referee - 2/4/1925

In Chicago a few weeks ago, Schaefer staged the most spectacular event of his career when he ran his string of 400 in one inning and did not give his opponent a shot - Pittsburgh Post Gazette - 3/22/1925

American billiards was derived from a German billiards game called pyramids.  The table had pockets and played with 22 balls.  21 stacked in a triangle at one end of the table - The Daily Nonpareli - 11/28/1925

HH Rogers, Standard Oil executive gave Mark Twain a billiards table.  Mr. Twain moved his bed into the library to make room for the table - Evening Express - 1/9/1926

Frank Taberski - what he lacks in playing skill is readily made up in an uncanny knowledge of psychology - Altoona Tribune - 2/6/1926

Challenges between professional billiards experts, where titles are invoived, always have been made through the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, the donors of the emblems, who always have acted as stakeholders and managers of such affairs. Horeman say, "In accordance with that custom I filed a challenge in January to play Hoppe for the world's championship at 18.1 balkline billiards" - Hoppe has refused stating that he is tired out from a long tour - The Day - 3/20/1926

World Championship - 15 Ball Continuous Pockets - Philadelphia - Purse - $5,000 (2025=$89,000) - Winner gets a Brunswick contract worth $250 (2025=$$4,500) per month. - Philadelphia Inquirer - 10/31/1926

Erwin Rudolph defeats Ralph Greenleaf to win his 1st of 6 World Pocket Billiards Championships - The Herald Statesman - 1/24/1927

The standard size of balls in English billiards is anything between 2 1/16th" to 2 3/32"but ivory balls are full 2 1/8" in order to allow of their being turned when they become foul - Lincolnshire Echo - 2/5/1927

Willie Hoppe retains Worlds 18.2 Balkline Billiards Championship, defeating Welker Cochran - The Roanoke Times - 2/13/1927

President of Brunswick, "During the past year records show that billiards made greater progress than in any similar period in the history of the game". The Herald Statesman - 4/13/1927

Joe Davis wins the 1st of 15 World Snooker Championships - Liverpool Daily Post - 5/13/1927

Brunswick-Balke-Collender announced that Thomas Hueston the World Pocket Billiards Crown when he failed to announce when and where he would defend the title against Taberski's challenge - Detroit Free Press - 9/29/1927

Jimmy Caras gained the title of "Boy Wonder" of the billiard world by defeating world's champion Ralph Greenleaf in 1927. At the time Jimmy was only 17 years old. - Petaluma-Argus Courier - 1/24/1968

Officials of the National Billiards association announced that a petition asking them to take over all public matches and exhibitions was under consideration, giving the organization's control over all professional contest.  The petition was from a number of leading professional players, complaining that evils have crept into the sport which reflects upon the honor and integrity of honest clubs and players - Detroit Free Press - 1/22/1928

Asheville, NC - New ordinance to permit public billiards rooms - under strict supervision of the police department - Ashville Citizens Times - 2/5/2028

Advertisement - 141 billiards tables and 88 bowling alleys. The proprietor invites would be customers in addition to playing, to eat, smoke, shave and dress at his building - Sunday Mercury - 4/8/1928

Frank Taberski wins his 14th and last World Pocket Billiards Championship by defeating Ralph Greenleaf - The Commercial Appeal - 12/22/1928

Willie Hoppe - "I don't believe my gave has gone backward. In fact, I'm certain that I'm better today than I was when I had a string of 13 unbroken championships to my credit.  But my opponents have improved" - Brooklyn Eagle - 1/6/1929

Willie Hoppe, worlds 18.1 balkline champion and leading all around billiard player and Ralph Greenleaf, greatest pocket billiardist of all time, gave 3 exhibition matches yesterday - Democrat and Chronicle - 2/6/1929

Ralph Greenleaf wins National Championship - wins $1000 ($18,000 in 2025 $) and gets a $6,000 ($108,000 in 2025%) annual salary by the National Billiards Association - The Sacramento Union - 2/23/1930

Tom Tothill of Toronto, retained his title as Professioinal Billiards Champion on the Dominion when he ended his 8,000 point match with James Quinn  The final count was Tothill 8,000 and Quinn 4790 - Moncton Transcrpt - 3/11/1929