Young Pocket Billiards Wizard, 1927

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World's champion watches Washington baby cue wizard perform with ivories. Just reaching his sixth birthday and barely able to see over the table, Andrew M. Dargan, son of a Washington pool room owner, is amazing pocket billiard expert with his mastery of intricate shots on the green cloth. He is shown in this photograph taking a few pointers from Irwin Rudolph, world's champion at pocket billiards who is in Washington for an exhibition. Erwin Rudolph (December 30, 1893 - May 19, 1957) was an American pocket billiards player from Cleveland, Ohio and a four-time world champion. One of his great feats was running 125 points in 32 minutes (now eclipsed). was inducted to the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1987, Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards (mostly in North America) or pool billiards (mostly in Europe and Australia), is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the rails, into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball. An obsolete term for pool is six-pocket. Photographed by Harris & Ewing, 1927.

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