Sport: Who Won, Jan. 2, 1933

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...

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