Who Won

Slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf: the pocket billiards championship of the world, for the 13th time; by winning nine matches (in one of which he made the tournament's high run of 106), losing none; in Manhattan.

Runner-up to Greenleaf was the youngest player of the ten who were good enough to enter the tournament--chipper little Jimmy Caras of Wilmington, Del. Playing for the world's championship for the first time in his career, he became 22 on the day that he won one of the six matches that put him in a tie for second place with Erwin Rudolph and Andrew Ponzi. In the playoff, Caras beat Rudolph by 125-to-8. Later the same day he disposed of Ponzi, 12540-94, in a match which ended with Caras' dangerous cut-shot for the right-hand upper corner pocket--when, if he had been a little less sure of himself, he might have broken a cluster to put Ponzi out of position instead of trying to run out the game. Son of a Greek pool parlor proprietor, Caras learned to play when he was 7 and so small he had to stand on a soapbox. He uses a 20-oz. cue, opens his mouth ferociously when making a run, takes no exercise for fear of becoming muscle bound, supports nine members of his family on his winnings.

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