Nice little flashback article on how newspapers used to write up Pool tournaments. This was one of the last of the classic round-robin format Straight Pool World Championships. Mosconi dropped only a single match (To Caras) out of 10, including a 125-0 against Ponzi (It does not indicate if this was in a single innings or not though.)
"Magician With a Cue" - December 5, 1942
"DETROIT (AP) [Saturday] -Dapper Willie Mosconi returned today to the world pocket billiard championship after a year's absence, and Monday morning, bright and early, he'll return to his war job at Jackson, Mich. Helped immensely by the defending champion, Irving Crane of Livonia, N.Y., Mosconi clinched the title this afternoon on the combination of his 125-to-32 victory over Edwin Rudolph of Chardon, Ohio, and Crane's dramatic 125-to-98 triumph over second-place Andrew Ponzi of Philadelphia. Both matches went 15 innings.
The victory was Mosconi's eighth in nine matches, while the defeat left Ponzi with six victories and three setbacks. The other four contenders had been eliminated in the previous five days of the tournament. By winning, Mosconi pocketed $1,500 in war bonds and hauled off the championship trophy to show the boys on the job.
Mosconi, the 29-year-old former Philadelphian who contributed most of the long runs of the tournament, beat Ponzi, 125 to 0, in his opening match Monday, then clustered five victories before Jimmy Caras of Philadelphia beat him. But the champion came back to beat Crane, the veteran Ralph Greenleaf of New York and Rudolph in order. Mosconi rolled up an unfinished run of 71 to whip Rudolph and clinch at least a tie for the title and then sat back to watch Ponzi lose. Crane seized an early lead, but in his final turn at the table Ponzi clustered 43 shots before Crane closed out the match.
Mosconi made his tournament record nine out of ten by defeating Ponzi, 125 to 17, in seven innings, in his final match tonight. In another match, Caras gained his fourth victory in ten starts by downing Rudolph, 125 to 76, in eight frames. In the final match of the tournament, Crane defeated Greenleaf, 125 to 17, in four innings. The victory lifted Crane into third place in the final standing, while Greenleaf, by virtue of having scored more points than Rudolph, took fifth."
"Magician With a Cue" - December 5, 1942
"DETROIT (AP) [Saturday] -Dapper Willie Mosconi returned today to the world pocket billiard championship after a year's absence, and Monday morning, bright and early, he'll return to his war job at Jackson, Mich. Helped immensely by the defending champion, Irving Crane of Livonia, N.Y., Mosconi clinched the title this afternoon on the combination of his 125-to-32 victory over Edwin Rudolph of Chardon, Ohio, and Crane's dramatic 125-to-98 triumph over second-place Andrew Ponzi of Philadelphia. Both matches went 15 innings.
The victory was Mosconi's eighth in nine matches, while the defeat left Ponzi with six victories and three setbacks. The other four contenders had been eliminated in the previous five days of the tournament. By winning, Mosconi pocketed $1,500 in war bonds and hauled off the championship trophy to show the boys on the job.
Mosconi, the 29-year-old former Philadelphian who contributed most of the long runs of the tournament, beat Ponzi, 125 to 0, in his opening match Monday, then clustered five victories before Jimmy Caras of Philadelphia beat him. But the champion came back to beat Crane, the veteran Ralph Greenleaf of New York and Rudolph in order. Mosconi rolled up an unfinished run of 71 to whip Rudolph and clinch at least a tie for the title and then sat back to watch Ponzi lose. Crane seized an early lead, but in his final turn at the table Ponzi clustered 43 shots before Crane closed out the match.
Mosconi made his tournament record nine out of ten by defeating Ponzi, 125 to 17, in seven innings, in his final match tonight. In another match, Caras gained his fourth victory in ten starts by downing Rudolph, 125 to 76, in eight frames. In the final match of the tournament, Crane defeated Greenleaf, 125 to 17, in four innings. The victory lifted Crane into third place in the final standing, while Greenleaf, by virtue of having scored more points than Rudolph, took fifth."
