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This dramatic match last week ended 14 successive days of caroms, draw shots and four-cushion banks at Chicago's Sherman Hotel. Defending Champion Johnny Layton, a 3-to-1 favorite to repeat, fell behind at the start. When he met Hoppe, a fly zoomed on his cue ball, rested comfortably while Layton fidgeted. When the fly took flight, Layton fumbled, let Hoppe beat him for the first time in tournament competition. 50-to-49. Finally Cochran, toppled only by Arthur Thurnblad, 1931's winner, faced Hoppe, his onetime U. S. touring partner, previously beaten by Allen Hall...
...Jessie Woolworth Donahue, while the daughter of the founder of the 5 & 10? store fortune was taking a bath. On Oct. 13 Noel Scaffa walked into police headquarters, laid down a brown paper parcel containing all the jewels. He had got them, he said later, from one Sam Layton in exchange for a $65,000 reward posted by the company with which Mrs. Donahue had insured her jewels. On Oct. 23 Chief Assistant District Attorney Ferdinand Pecora had Scaffa indicted for compounding a felony by allowing "Sam Layton" to escape. The first trial resulted in a hung jury, the second...
...Johnny Layton said he thought there was no good fortune at all in de Oro's victory. Thereupon the onetime carpenter from Sedalia, Mo., proceeded to lose to de Oro 50-10-46. For a time during the 66-game competition it looked as if the lead might pass to Willie Hoppe, who is not really old (46), or to young Jay Bozeman, married for the second time just before the tournament and sporting a slave bracelet on his left wrist. But by last week all but two of the twelve contestants had played eleven matches and lost three...
Cochran lit one cigaret after another while Layton, handling his cue with annoying deliberation, wiggling his pale eye brows with conscious archness, worked his score up to 7 before Cochran had made his first billiard. Twenty innings passed before Cochran could make two points in a row. Then he got a run of four but Layton was ahead, 29-to-9. When the crowd grew noisy, dawdling, red-faced Layton walked to his chair and waited for silence. When Cochran demanded new balls, Layton insisted on the old ones, compromised by keeping his cueball, letting the other two be replaced...
...Layton's eyes are not now quite so good as they were when he first got into the game with a top-notch professional. That was when Alfredo de Oro stopped off at St. Louis one afternoon 30 years ago for an exhibition match, and advised his practice opponent, a boy just out of short trousers, to give up pool for three-cushion billiards. After becoming the world-champion pool player, Layton did so. The diamond-shaped plates, now set in the rail of every standard billiard table, were developed from his system of studying angles. World...