- Alfredo de Oro
Alfredo de Oro (
April 28 ,1863 disputable|date=September 2007 inManzanillo, Cuba – 1948; sometimes recorded as Alfredo DeOro) was a Cuban professionalcarom billiards and pool player who several times held the world title in boththree-cushion billiards andstraight pool simultaneously. He was posthumously inducted into theBilliard Congress of America 's Hall of Fame in 1967, one of the very few non-Americans to receive the honor. [http://www.bca-pool.com/cgi/site/framegate.cgi?url=http://www.bca-pool.com/industry/hof/hof.shtml&cat=i "The BCA Hall of Fame"] ,Billiard Congress of America ,Colorado Springs ,Colorado ,USA ; accessedFebruary 2 ,2007 ]His first public appearance as a professional was in the fourth US National
Fifteen-ball Championship, held in New York, February, 1887. From 1887 to 1908 he lost only one game in over forty match atcontinuous pool and has been winner of eleven World ChampionshipsClarifyme|date=September 2007 . He defeated English championJohn Roberts, Sr. in ann 1893 contestClarifyme|date=September 2007 in New York, scoring 1,000 to 927, and later won the 1894 Havana Tnternational tournament.Clarifyme|date=September 2007 He won the World Continuous Pool Championship in a match againstJerome R. Keogh in New York, November, 1910, making the highest record Cuegloss|Run|run of 81. He also held the three-cushion championshipClarifyme|date=September 2007 title three times during 1910.His son, Alfredo de Oro Jr., was an amateur billiard player in turn, making it to the final round of the 1931
National Association of Amateur Billiard Players Championship (defeated by soon-to-be-pro [Edward Lee (billiard player)|Edward Lee).Cite news|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,741200,00.html |title=Who Won|work=Time|publisher=Time Inc. |date=March 9 ,1931 |accessdate=2007-11-29]Career Titles
14.1 continuous
* 1912 Jun
* 1912 Nov
* 1913 Jan
* 1913 FebWorld Three-cushion Championship
* 1908
* 1910
* 1911
* 1913-14
* 1915
* 1917
* 1919References
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