![]() ![]() Their father died when Katsura was 12 years old and she went to live with her elder sister and her sister's husband, Tomio Kobashi, who owned a billiard parlor. Little is known about Katsura's childhood in Japan. Masako Katsura was born on 7 March 1913 in Tokyo. Masako Katsura, from an interview by Jimmy Cannon, excerpted in Byrne's Advanced Technique in Pool and Billiards (1990) If I hit no good, my brother-in-law, after billiard parlor closed, say this shot no good. Every day I practice, Soon I play with many men. I practice before parlor open every day for two hours. ![]() She is remembered not only for her skill and success as a player but also for her grace, style, and determination in the face of adversity. Masako Katsura's cause of death was getting aged. She moved back to Japan around 1990 and died in 1995. Katsura disappeared from the sport thereafter, only making a brief impromptu appearance in 1976. In 1959, she made two television appearances on ABC's You Asked for It, and one on the CBS primetime television hit What's My Line? Katsura returned to competition in 1961, playing a challenge match for the World Three-Cushion title against Worst, then reigning world champion, and was defeated by him. She made 30 exhibition appearances in 1958, and went on a one-week exhibition engagement the following year with Harold Worst, but did not compete in any professional tournaments. Little was seen of Katsura for the next few years. In 19, she again competed for the world three-cushion crown, taking fifth and fourth places respectively. Her fame cemented, Katsura went on an exhibition tour of the United States with eight-time world champion Welker Cochran, and later with 51-time world champion Willie Hoppe. Katsura was the first woman ever to be included in any world billiards tournament. There she was invited to play in the 1952 U.S.-sponsored World Three-Cushion Championship, ultimately taking seventh place at that competition. Army non-commissioned officer in 1950, Katsura emigrated to the United States in 1951. In exhibition she was noted for running 10,000 points at the game of straight rail.Īfter marrying a U.S. In competition in Japan, she took second place in the country's national three-cushion billiards championship three times. First learning the game from her brother-in-law and then under the tutelage of Japanese champion Kinrey Matsuyama, Katsura became Japan's only female professional player. Katsura blazed a trail for women in the sport by competing and placing among the best in the male-dominated world of professional billiards. i figured the goal is to sink all balls, not get a couple of balls thru.Masako Katsura ( 桂 マサ子, Katsura Masako, listen 7 March 1913 – 1995), nicknamed " Katsy" and sometimes called the " First Lady of Billiards", was a Japanese carom billiards player who was most active in the 1950s. killed me spectators thought i was stupid not always going for easy balls first. How easy should this be for someone who is reasonably profiicient (friday night bar: "hey that guy is good" type level. not sure this is the rigged game, but extreme cuts seemed hard.Ĭues didn't seem really terrible. banks don't play true seem to come back more square than expected. hit break fairly lightly keep balls near those far pockets. ![]() Obv a rigged game, although thinking it's not that easy non-rigged. some people (myself included) came pretty close. and then you have to make a called shot every time until there are no balls left. So basically they cue 4 balls, you break. basically you have to make a called shot each time beyond the break and no scratches (balls going in wrong pocket, another non-called ball goes in) the break doesn't count as a shot, but whatever you make stays in. ![]() They had that game i've seen before where you try to sink 4 balls in 4 shots. Went to the fair twice in the last 2 weeks. ![]()
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