Word: schaefer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wedding rites now rapidly ensued, and Colonel Lam Bhate explicitly declared: "For the God of Love, for Wealth, and for the Blessing of Procreation, to you I offer Devi Sharmista." When news of these words reached the bride's grandfather, Mr. Louis Schaefer, in Seattle, he exclaimed: "I'm sorry I wasn't there to give Nancy away. . . . That is a gentleman...
...Horemans' run was formidable to the audience and it seemed likely now that a foreigner would beat the great Schaefer. The day before, Horemans had run off 345; Schaefer was already behind; to beat Horemans now would be hard, almost impossible...
...Schaefer, who had been chalking his cue nervously while Horemans shot, bent over the table. With a few beautiful billiards he brought the balls, scattered when Horemans broke his run, into a position in the corner. He began a run, playing as smoothly as if he were unconscious of the concentration of hundreds of eyes and minds on the green table and on that spot in the table where his fingers rested holding the cue. He made fifty, seventy-five, eighty, eighty-five-and then, when it seemed as if he could have gone on making shots like a machine...
...block of billiards played yesterday in the Main Living Room of the Union, Jake Schaefer, world's 18.1 balkline champion, defeated Welker Cochran 250 to 69, and in a game of 3 cushion billiards he won over Cochran by a score...
...Jake Schaefer, who holds the world's 18.1 balkline billiards championship at present, will play Welkor, Cochran in a block of billiards in the Main Living Room of the Union at 4 o'clock today...