Here's a link for searching through California papers.
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=q&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN------
You might find something interesting---like this:
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING APRIL 4,1910
MIND A BLANK FROM LONG
PERIOD OF BILLIARD PLAYING
Shipping Clerk Spends Fourteen
Consecutive Hours at Tables
His mind a complete blank from playing billiards for fourteen consecutive hours and with pockets bulging With the the trade checks of a Central Avenue pool hall, Karl K. Blalak, a shipping clerk living at 828 East Forty Eighth Street, wandered into police headquarters last night. Papers found on his person disclosed his identity and he was placed in the care of the police surgeons at the receiving hospital, where at an early hour this morning he
showed signs of returning memory. While strapped to a cot in the hospital Blalak stared vacantly for hours and murmured to himself, "I've won; my shot; I've won." The police communicated with the pool hall whose address the trade checks bore and were told that Blalak had played billiards in their hall fourteen hours yesterday.
EW
http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=q&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN------
You might find something interesting---like this:
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING APRIL 4,1910
MIND A BLANK FROM LONG
PERIOD OF BILLIARD PLAYING
Shipping Clerk Spends Fourteen
Consecutive Hours at Tables
His mind a complete blank from playing billiards for fourteen consecutive hours and with pockets bulging With the the trade checks of a Central Avenue pool hall, Karl K. Blalak, a shipping clerk living at 828 East Forty Eighth Street, wandered into police headquarters last night. Papers found on his person disclosed his identity and he was placed in the care of the police surgeons at the receiving hospital, where at an early hour this morning he
showed signs of returning memory. While strapped to a cot in the hospital Blalak stared vacantly for hours and murmured to himself, "I've won; my shot; I've won." The police communicated with the pool hall whose address the trade checks bore and were told that Blalak had played billiards in their hall fourteen hours yesterday.
EW