Professional billiard players unit in organizing protective association. :yes:
Many of the leading players have joined the fraternity and the rest are expected to come in. Realizing the value of an organization, the professional billiard players of the country have banded together and perfected an association modeled on lines similar to Baseball Players Fraternity.
The name of the new organization, which has been granted a charter approved by Judge James C. Cropsey of Superior Court of the State of New York, is Professional Billiard Players' Fraternity.
The purpose of the fraternity, set forth in the incorporation of the papers and bylaws:
To protect and promote the interests of professional pocket and billiard players; to promote the game of billiards in all its forms; to protect the professional players in their relations with each other and in their relations with and to the public; to have every reasonable obligation of players' contracts lived up to by both parties; to abolish 'sharking'; to discountenance rowdyism and unfairness during match games and tournaments; to advise the players concerning any real or fancied grievance, and in the case if former exists, to prepare his case for him; to adjust and arbitrate, whenever possible, disputes between players, among themselves or with others, with respect to billiards; to prevent, as far as possible, adverse legislation; to cooperate with all amateur organizations in the efforts to make billiards a clean sport."
It looks as of pool has been trying to organize for almost a century now in the United States. If the above-referenced organization had succeeded, I wonder where pocket and billiard players would be today in 2008. Notice the words "his" and "him" are used throughout the article, with no mention of "her" or "she." :blush:
And that's the way it was August 15, 1920, according to The New York Times: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archiv...91E31E433A25756C1A96E9C946195D6CF&oref=slogin
JAM
Many of the leading players have joined the fraternity and the rest are expected to come in. Realizing the value of an organization, the professional billiard players of the country have banded together and perfected an association modeled on lines similar to Baseball Players Fraternity.
The name of the new organization, which has been granted a charter approved by Judge James C. Cropsey of Superior Court of the State of New York, is Professional Billiard Players' Fraternity.
The purpose of the fraternity, set forth in the incorporation of the papers and bylaws:
To protect and promote the interests of professional pocket and billiard players; to promote the game of billiards in all its forms; to protect the professional players in their relations with each other and in their relations with and to the public; to have every reasonable obligation of players' contracts lived up to by both parties; to abolish 'sharking'; to discountenance rowdyism and unfairness during match games and tournaments; to advise the players concerning any real or fancied grievance, and in the case if former exists, to prepare his case for him; to adjust and arbitrate, whenever possible, disputes between players, among themselves or with others, with respect to billiards; to prevent, as far as possible, adverse legislation; to cooperate with all amateur organizations in the efforts to make billiards a clean sport."
It looks as of pool has been trying to organize for almost a century now in the United States. If the above-referenced organization had succeeded, I wonder where pocket and billiard players would be today in 2008. Notice the words "his" and "him" are used throughout the article, with no mention of "her" or "she." :blush:
And that's the way it was August 15, 1920, according to The New York Times: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archiv...91E31E433A25756C1A96E9C946195D6CF&oref=slogin
JAM
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