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Matsuyama had the frailties of the other players on file, as well. He decided that Welker Cochran was "too daring and care-less," that portly Felix Grange was "weak on nurse." Jake Schaefer, a smooth fingered youth from Chicago, son and namesake of a five-time champion, was the only one who worried the little Japanese...
...Shelton Hale Scholarship was won by P. A. Freund, a graduate of Washington University. The Herbert Parker Scholarship was won by W. J. Killion, a graduate of Boston College. The Rutherford B. Hayes Scholarship was won by R. C. Schaefer, a graduate of Oberlin College. The Robert T. Swaine Scholarship was won by R. C. Westgate 26. The Buchanan Scholarship was won by R. H. Guthrie, a graduate of The Citadel. Two Class of 1913 Scholarships were won by F. H. Heiss and W. A. Page, graduates of Southeastern University and Stanford University, respectively...
...interest to the politically minded will be invitations to Senator Borah of Idaho, "Jimmy" Walker, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, Charles Evans Hughes, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. For those seeking entertainment, the most definite offering that the Union management can now make is the Jake Schaefer billiard exhibition in January. Last season Mr. Schaefer and Welker Cochran played to a full house. Several travel talks will be given,--the management hopes to secure some authority on the comparatively newly discovered city...
...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...