Alfredo DeOro
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Cubans
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professional carom billiards and pool
Pocket billiards
Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...
player who several times held the world title in both three-cushion billiards
Three-cushion billiards
Three-cushion billiards is a form of carom billiards, and one of the most popular and challenging cue sports in the world.The object of the game is to the off both and contact the at least 3...
and straight pool
Straight Pool
Straight pool, also called 14.1 continuous or simply 14.1, is a pocket billiards game, and was the common sport of championship competition until overtaken by faster-playing games like nine-ball...
simultaneously. He was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America
Billiard Congress of America
Billiard Congress of America is a governing body for cue sports in North America , the regional member organization of the World Pool-Billiard Association...
's Hall of Fame in 1967, one of the very few non-Americans to receive the honor.
Biography
He was born April 28, 1863 in Manzanillo, CubaManzanillo, Cuba
Manzanillo is a municipality and city in the Granma Province of Cuba.It is a port city in the Granma Province in eastern Cuba on the Gulf of Guacanayabo, near the delta of the Cauto River...
.
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 at continuous pool and has been winner of eleven World Championships. He defeated English
England
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champion John Roberts, Sr. in an 1893 contest in New York
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, scoring 1,000 to 927, and later won the 1894 Havana International tournament. He won the World Continuous Pool Championship in a match against Jerome R. Keogh in New York, November, 1910, making the highest record of 81. He also held the three-cushion championship title three times during 1910.
In 1912 he was defeated in pocket billiards
Pocket billiards
Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...
by James Maturo
James Maturo
James Maturo was the 1912 World pocket billiards championship winner.-Biography:He was born around 1878. In 1912 he defeated Alfredo de Oro in Philadelphia by a score of 150 to 136. In 1916 he was matched against Frank Taberski of Schenectady, New York in a championship match....
of Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
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in Philadelphia by a score of 150 to 136. In 1914 he defeated Charles R. Morin in three-cushion billiards
Three-cushion billiards
Three-cushion billiards is a form of carom billiards, and one of the most popular and challenging cue sports in the world.The object of the game is to the off both and contact the at least 3...
for the national championship.
He died in 1948.
Family
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).Career titles
Sixty-one pool1887 May, 1888 Feb.
Continuous pool
1889 Jun, 1890 Apr, 1891 May, 1892 Mar, 1893 Mar, 1893 Jun, 1896 May, 1896 Jun, 1898 Dec, 1899 Jan, 1899 Apr, 1899 Dec, 1900 Apr, 1901 Apr, 1904 Nov, 1905 Jan, 1905 May, 1905 Oct, 1908 May, 1908 Oct, 1910 Nov, 1911 Jan, 1911 Mar, 1911 Apr, 1911 May.
14.1 continuous
Straight Pool
Straight pool, also called 14.1 continuous or simply 14.1, is a pocket billiards game, and was the common sport of championship competition until overtaken by faster-playing games like nine-ball...
1912 Jun, 1912 Nov, 1913 Jan, 1913 Feb
World Three-cushion Championship
1908, 1910, 1911, 1913 (regaining title from James Maturo
James Maturo
James Maturo was the 1912 World pocket billiards championship winner.-Biography:He was born around 1878. In 1912 he defeated Alfredo de Oro in Philadelphia by a score of 150 to 136. In 1916 he was matched against Frank Taberski of Schenectady, New York in a championship match....
), 1914 (beating John G. Horgan
John G. Horgan
John G. Horgan was an American professional billiards player, the World Pocket Billiards Champion in 1906, and the world three-cushion billiards champion in 1912.-Biography:...
), 1915 (beating George W. Moore), 1917, 1919.