Sports Inventors and Innovators - Creators of Sports, Cue Sports Inventors and Innovators, Founders of Sporting Institutions (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Creators of sports, Cue sports inventors and innovators, Founders of sporting institutions, Mountain bike innovators, Orienteering innovators, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, James Naismith, William A. Spinks, Bradbury Robinson, Eddie Cochems, Martina Bergman-Osterberg, Tom Wills, Francois Mingaud, Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain, Clara Gregory Baer, Jack Broughton, Keith Bontrager, Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, William George Beers, Dwight F. Davis, Charles Gaines, Chris Brasher, Wayman C. McCreery, Julius Goldman, Charlie Cunningham, Gary Fisher, Tom Ritchey, Per Kristiansen, Gary Klein, John Wesley Hyatt, Shawn Orecchio, Pat Fleming, Mike Sinyard, Charlie Kelly, Jan Martin Larsen, Geoff Apps, Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, Ot Pi, Van Phillips, Larry Stevenson, John Graham Chambers, Joe Breeze, Joe Murray, Paul Skilbeck, Jan Kjellstrom, Bjorn Kjellstrom, Jake Watson, Hans Rey, Bernhard Rohloff, Martin Kronlund, Ernst Killander, Russ Mahon. Excerpt: William Alexander Spinks, Jr. (1865-1933), known professionally as William A. Spinks or (in the initialing practice common in his era) W. A. Spinks, and occasionally also referred to as Billy Spinks), was an American professional player of carom billiards in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to being amateur Pacific Coast Billiards Champion several times, a world champion contender in more than one cue sports discipline, and an exhibition player in Europe, he became the co-inventor (with William Hoskins) in 1897 of modern billiard cue chalk. He was originally (and again in retirement from the billiards circuit) a Californian, but spent much of his professional career in Chicago, Illinois. At his peak, his was a household name in U.S. billiards; the New York Times labeled Spinks " of the most brilliant pla...