Fans of cue games and intense competition will have a chance to watch 18 of the best billiard players from six states show their skills this weekend. The Masonic Temple is hosting the second Dubuque Open. The game is three-cushion billiards, a game played with three balls on a 5-foot by 10-foot pocketless table. Play will be on three 1930 Brunswick tables that have been reconditioned with rubber from Germany and cloth and balls from Belgium. Players from Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Illinois will begin play at 5 p.m. Friday, June 10, at the Masonic building at 12th and Locust.
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DAYTON -- Fire investigators will try to determine what caused a blaze that destroyed a building which housed a billiards supply business. The fire department estimated the property loss at $250,000. Vincent Wiley, a district fire chief who directed the city's response on Sunday, said he considered the fire to be of suspicious origin because firefighters found one of the building's entry doors unsecured. A caller reported the fire to dispatchers shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday.
Billiards afficianados will have an opportunity to take a trip back in time next month. The Masonic Temple will host a three-cushion billiards tournament on June 11-13 that is thought to be the first of its kind in Dubuque in more than 100 years. Dubuque native Robert Byrne, who founded the United States Billiard Association in 1966, will serve as tournament host.
She lined up her shot, glanced at the other balls on the dark green felt, then set her sights back on one ball and the pocket where she planned to sink it. After a high five from her partner, she lined up her next shot. Mitsy Shepherd, 42, has been playing for just over 20 years and her four-woman team "Loud and Proud" was doing well Sunday during the St. Albans Moose Lodge's billiard tournament.
Rack 'em up. The husband-and-wife team of Les and Molly Wagner this week closed a deal to purchase the building at 514 E. Broadway previously occupied by Club Shattered and plan next month to open Billiards on Broadway, a "family-friendly place" for pool players "who really need a place to play pool," Molly Wagner said.
SOUTH SALT LAKE -- Thirty men filtered into AMF Ritz Classic Lanes Bowling Center's doors Wednesday morning, most carrying cases and boxes filled with billiards equipment. The men were all participants of the 29th annual Billiard Tournament for senior centers throughout Salt Lake County and Murray city. Ron Lee carried a personal billiard cue in hand, ready to compete. Lee is 78 and has been an on-and-off player his whole life. He said he picked the sport up again when he started going to a senior center a few years ago.
BLOOMINGTON - Sarah Rousey has seen several momentous events occur in the world of pro billiards recently. That's one reason the 27-year-old from Bloomington is "shocked" to be on the cover of the January issue of Chicago-based Billiards Digest magazine, the sport's oldest and most widely read publication.
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