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...Japanese inflection. . . . Better get Rabbit Maranville to do that trick for you. Say, there was the life of the party. ... All their players soon were trying to imitate the Rabbit's trick of catching a ball in his lap while sitting on second base and making those vest pocket catches of pop flies. The crowds fairly roared when they saw those flies bouncing off the heads of their players...
Because pool is a name associated with back-alleys and furtive gambling, pool champions, when they play each other, have a more elaborate designation for their game-pocket billiards. For the first time in many years there were more than eight players in the world's championship pocket billiards tournament which ended in Philadelphia last week. Several of the twelve were ex-champions but the pool addicts who watched them, banked closely under the shaded lamps of Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office...
...sharp-fingered hands. Only once was Greenleaf ruffled. That was in his seventh match when he missed his favorite cube of chalk. Puzzled, he asked his opponent, Andrew Ponzi, if he had seen it anywhere. ''I'm not sure!" said Ponzi, then produced it from his pocket where he had slyly secreted it with several scraps...
Early one morning last week at Callao a woman tried to keep her husband from leaving home with a stick of dynamite in his pocket. During their scuffle the dynamite went off, blew up both of them. . . . Ten were killed, 13 wounded at Paijan in street fighting. . . . Strikes broke out on the sugar plantations around Trujillo. . . . On the outskirts of Lima, police arrested 30 men breaking into a private shooting club, not to practice but to steal weapons. . . . All this was considered as natural an adjunct as the gold braid and oratory with which seven-fingered President Luis M. Sanchez...
...carry a raw potato in the in the pocket was an old-fashioned remedy against rheumatism that modern research has proven to have a scientific [sic] basis...