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Among all the followers of billiards yesterday there was not one who was not ready to concede the amateur championship title to the young player from the West, Calvin
Demarest. That this youth had displayed the most perfect 14.2 balk line billiards ever played in an amateur tournament was the verdict
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Records for amateur 14.2 balk-line billiards were created under the masterful cue-work of Calvin
Demarest and J. Ferdinand Poggenburg yesterday in the continuation of the National championship tournament. The genius of the young Westerner's billiards was demonstrated in no uncertain way, and he held
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Calvin
Demarest of Chicago to-night broke the world's amateur record for the high run in the opening game of the National amateur 14.2 billiard tournament at the Chicago Athletic Club, making 168 in his seventeenth inning. Demarest won the game, defeating Clarence Jackson of Chicago by the score of
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Interest in billiards among local enthusiasts received an impetus last week by the initial appearance here, in the role of a professional, of Calvin
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Calvin
Demarest, former national amateur billiard champion, attacked his wife with a pocket knife today and then slashed his own throat. His mother, who attempted to restrain him, was cut on the hand. Husband and wife were taken to a
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Calvin W. Demarest. Birth: June 1886 in
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