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(born Oct. 11, 1887, Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N.Y., U.S. — died Feb. 1, 1959, Miami, Fla.) U.S. billiards player. Hoppe was taught billiards by his hotelkeeper father. A master of carom technique, he became one of the most durable of all sports champions, winning 51 world titles between 1906 and 1952. In the 1940 tournament in Chicago he was undefeated in 20 matches. He retired in 1952.

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Hoppe, Willie (William Frederick Hoppe) (hŏp'ē), 1887-1959, American billiards champion, b. Cornwall, N.Y. He practiced billiards from a very early age and gave exhibitions before he won (1906) his first world championship in Paris. Hoppe subsequently won many championships in three-cushion and the intricate balkline forms of the game, and when he retired in 1952 after winning his 12th world three-cushion championship (the last 6 in a row), he had won 51 world billiards titles in 46 years of tournament competition. He wrote Thirty Years of Billiards (1925) and Billiards as It Should Be Played (1941).
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For the boxer, see Willie Hoppe (boxer).
Willie Hoppe

William Frederick Hoppe (October 11, 1887 – February 1, 1959), known predominantly as Willie Hoppe (surname rhymes with "poppy"[1][2]), was an internationally renowned American professional carom billiards champion, and was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1966. He was born in Cornwall on Hudson, New York.

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Professional career

He won 51 world titles between 1906 and 1952. Other things that brought him to fame were his high runs in three forms of the sport. These are 2,000 in straight rail, 622 in 18.2 balkline, and 25 in three-cushion. He once made a tournament average of 1.333, a world record (at that time, but since broken).

Hoppe published his first book, Thirty Years of Billiards (ISBN 0486231267), in 1925, and followed this up many years later with the introductory work, Billiards As It Should Be Played (ISBN 0809288370), in 1941.

After winning the world title in 1952, Hoppe retired from title play and became a "goodwill ambassador" for the sport by conducting a series of exhibition matches.

Titles and tournament wins

  • World 18.1 Balkline Champion (1906, 1908-1911, 1914-1927)
  • World 18.2 Balkline Champion (1907, 1910-1920, 1923, 1924, 1927)
  • World Three-cushion Champion (1936, 1940-1943, 1947-1952)

References

  1. ^ "Names make news". Time Magazine (Time) LXX (17). October 21, 1957. http://aolsvc.timeforkids.kol.aol.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,937947-2,00.html?iid=perma_share. Retrieved May 2, 2009. "Expressing regret at what has happened to his favorite game ("It's down now where bowling used to be"), William Frederick (Willie) Hoppe (rhymes with poppy), former world champion of three-cushion billiards, celebrated his 70th birthday in Miami retirement.". 
  2. ^ Funk, Charles Earle (1936). "What's the Name, Please?". Literary Digest (Funk & Wagnalls). "According to an intimate friend of many years' standing, it rimes [sic] with copy" [clarification needed]

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