Edouard Horeman's indifference to billiards as a profession has decreased noticeably since he acquired wealthy relatives when he married the daughter of a prosperous billiards supply company in Belgium - Franklin Repository - 2/6/21930

Chief Coy set a National Billiards Association for continuous play, playing for 120 hours and 15 minutes - Oakland Tribune - 2/12/1980

When Ralph Greenleaf finally got into championship form, however, Greenleaf won nine games in a row and took the National Championship title with ease. From that time to this, there hasn't been a year during which he failed to hold the championship, for a time at least. From 1919 to May 1926, he held the championship continuously, although there was many a time when he had to defend against a line of powerful players. - Evansville Press - 2/16/1930

A new interest in billiards will be available for Battle Creek women when a professional woman instructor will be employed - Battle Creek Noon Journal - 5/01/1930

Tom Tothill, Canadian Professional BIlliards champion, after a sojourn of about a year in Calgary, is back on the Coast again.  He has given up the position he held in Calgary for the past year and has assumed managership of the billiards room at Terminal City Club, Vancouver - The North Shore Press - 1/2/1931

Time was when proficiency at billiards was regarded as a sure sign of mis-spent youth - Hull Daily Mail - 2/06/1931

8 outdoor billiards tables (6' x 12") were installed at the Biscayne Golf club.  The surface is 8' off the ground.  The players use a mallet to pocket the balls.  The surface is a special composition which allows the player to walk on -  Battle Creek Enquire - 2/10/19311

Police raid on billiard room in Wales, Australia - 50 men face charges of being found in a gaming house - Cessnock Eagle - 7/24/1931

Johnny Layton, Hall of Famer) - winner of 10 3 Cushion Billard Championships - "Jake Schaefer is a great player but is too green to win the 3 Cushion Billiard Championship. But if he puts as much time into 3 Cushions as he has balkline, he will win the title - Lansing State Journal - 1/29/1932

Their (Walter Lindrun and Tom Newman) billiard itinerary starts in Montreal on the 22nd, and afterwards includes Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg,, New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago - Manchester Evening News - 2/06/1932

Negotiations are under way for the first international professional pocket billiards championship between the American and British players, to be held at Madison Square Gardens - The Buffalo News - 3/26/1932

Jake Schaefer - "Balkline has been the grand opera of billiards for 50 years, it is the popular style in Europe, Japan and South America" - Kansas City Journal - 7/10/1932

Ruth McGinnis, Homedale, PA, defeated Babe Didrikson, 100 to 14, in the first block of the so-called battle for the "women's pocket billiards championship of the world" - The Buffalo News - 1/14/1933

The World's Professional 71-centimeter balkline billiards championship is being held in Paris - in 71-centimeter the balkline is divided into 6 instead of 9 compartments - The Montreal Star - 2/6/1933

Willie Mosconi, 19 years old, starts working for Brunswick at $600 ($14,000 in 2025$) per month plus expenses - The Shreveport Journal - 2/2/1974

The National Billiards Association will have free public billiard exhibitions by a group of stars, at a cost of $175,000 ($3.3 Million in today's dollar) - Times Union - 8/22/1933

Willie Mosconi (21 years old) one of America's youngest professional pocket billiards players who will appear here Friday, in a free exhibition - The Guthri Daily Leader - 1/24/1934

Alfredo De Oro (Hall of Famer) - 71 years old, is the leader of the National 3 Cushions Billiards Tournament - 

Andrew Ponzi wins his 1st of 4 World Pocket Billiards Championships at 30 years old - he set a record with a 153-ball run - The San Bernadino County Sun - 3/1/1935

The National Billiards Association states that over one million spectators will have seen over 5,000 pool exhibitions - The Mercury - 12/27/1934

The National Billiards Association is starting a new program to promote billiards.  The "better billiards program" will consist of 3 groups of billiard stars, a total of 21.  They will be providing free lessons and exhibitions. - Chattanooga Times - 1/20/1935

Jimmy Caras, 25-year-old billiard wizard, who is making a "better billiards" tour of the nation, chose a 1935 Dodge because, he says scientific test showed it far less tiring to drive than most cars. - Los Angeles Evening Citizen - 2/6/1935

Ruth McGinnis is the only feminine expert of the 21 stars who, with the "Better Billiards" program, are presently touring the United States.  - The Dunsmuir News - 3/8/2025
 
Jimmy Caras (25 Years Old) defeats Erwin Rudolf for World Pocket Billiards Championship - youngest winner since Ralph Greenleaf in 1919 - 1st of 5 Championships - The Fargo Forum - 12/23/1935

Ruth McGinnis, Hall of Famer, "The Queen o Billiards", is the lone feminine expert of the 21 cue aces who are touring the from one end to another on the National Billiards Association 's third annual national Better Billiards Tour - The Waterbury Democrat - 1/14/1936

George Spears, born in Shelby, MI in 1871, is one of the most widely known billiard instructors in the country -The Daily Times 2/6/1936

Temperance Billiards Halls owns 1,000 tables, 3,000 billiard balls, 15,400 snooker balls and 2 1/2 acres of billiard table cloth - Sunday Dispatch - 4/12/1936

Victor Suttich, clerk in the court of Superior Judge Harris - "There is only a few of them (pool hustlers) left and they're dying off fast.  Those who aren't dying are getting out of the racket because there is no dough in it anymore" - The San Francisco Examiner - 8/19/1936

Balkline often is referred to as the "aristocrat of billiards".  It involves more fine points than any other billiard game.  When a player can master balkline, he is capable of playing any other forms of billiards on an even scale except for the top experts of the other sports - The Minneapolis Journal - 1/24/1937

Ralph Greenleaf wins his 19th and last World Pocket Billiard Championship - The Omaha Morning Bee News - 4/23/1937

Miss McGinnis has the distinction of being the only champion in the history of any sport that has to go over into the opposite field to find competition. No woman dares challenge her to her right to the title. During the past four years she has been traveling the country meeting all comers and has a record of winning 1,548 matches and losing 35. She has a daring and colorful style and experts agree that she has the most perfect stroke of any player in "The Gentleman's Game" - Brooklyn Eagle - 12/2/1936

As a matter of fact, there was never enough gambling on the pool table to hurt anyone, it was other kinds of gambling going on in the back rooms of pool halls that gave the word a bad sound. - The Belleville News-Democrat - 12/4/9137

Willie Hoppe: "Life is like championship billiards, it requires steady nerves, and enough stamina to carry you through the hard sessions" - Salt Lake Telegram - 1/14/1938

In the old days, billiard-hall sharpers used to play in their jackets until they got plenty of bets on.  Then it was "coast off and clean up the dough" - Sunday Dispatch - 2/6/1938

Roger Conti, of France, won the world's three cushion billiards championship today, defeating Welker Cochran, San Francisco's American Champion - Press of Atlantic City - 3/27/1938

Three Cushion Billiards gained a "new" angle today as the National Billiards Association drafted plans for a nation-wide World's Championship tournament to be played in 10 different cities - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - 12/21/1938

Andalusia, Alabama ordinance - The playing of billiards or pool by any person or persons within the City of Andalusia, Alabama, or police jurisdiction thereof is prohibited. - The Andalusia Star News - 1/12/1939

Irving Crane, 25 years old touring billiards star from New York claimed a new world record of 309 consecutive balls - The Fresno Bee - 2/6/1939

There is certainly not so much money in billiards today, first-class play having dropped out altogether, and it will be very interesting to see what the gates are like in the Professional Billiards Championship which is about to begin - Football Post - 3/25/1939
 
3 bandits held 40 pool patrons at gunpoint.  When they left with their loot the patrons grabbed pool cues, cue balls and chairs and ran after them.  The police found the 3 bandits lying in the street - The Times Tribune - 2/11/1939