Who was Calvin Demarest , New York Billiardist

[billiardshot]

If you want to know who Calvin Demarest was - read this article. Be sure to click on attacked his wife and
very much alive in the article to read more on this man.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/3223

http://www.shorpy.com/node/3223?size=_original

 

[bud green]

The story and that weird photo of him looking bug-eyed and crazy don't really want to join his fan club or anything.

Too many kiss-outs and missing balls in the corner at 3-C might do this to a man though...

 

[iralee]

...looks like he was playing balkline 18.x. That'll do it, too.

 

[billiardshot]

Here more on this Billiardist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Demarest

And here a very good article written in 1909
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archiv...D153EE733A25753C1A9679C946897D6CF&oref=slogin