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comfortably one at The Players, where we sometimes went for luncheon, for
tendency to eliminate contrasts and incongruities. We sat at the Round
given by that matchless interpreter, David Warfield. Clemens was
on playing it all his life."
We went behind when it was over, and I could see.html">see that Warfield glowed
Players, he declared that no former compliment had ever made him so
Sutton, at the Madison Square Garden, and Clemens, with his eager
go anywhere alone, and one evening he invited me to accompany him. Just
The players stopped, somewhat puzzled, for no especially brilliant shot
that the game.html">game.html">game, for the moment, was not the chief attraction. The
is not often paid to a private citizen.
Clemens had a great admiration for the young champion Hoppe, which the
game with intense eagerness. When it was over the referee said a few
probably invented on the instant. He said:
"Once in Nevada I dropped into a billiard-room casually, and picked
was a red-haired man.html">man, with such hair as I have never seen anywhere
He said, 'Knock the balls around a little and let me see how you can
well, when he said, 'That's all right.html">right; I'll play.html">play you left-handed.'
won it. Then he commenced to play, and I commenced to chalk my cue
my cue; and he played and I chalked all through that game. When he
left-handed what could you do right-handed?'
"'Couldn't do anything,' he said. 'I'm a left-handed man.'"
How it delighted them! I think it was the last speech of any sort he
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