Morris D. Brown was an American Balkline and straight rail

Balkline and straight rail

Balkline is the overarching title of a large array of carom billiards games generally played with two and a third, red , on a -covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, less table that is divided by on the cloth into marked regions called...

 billiards champion.

Biography

On March 19, 1914 he defeated the previous champion, Joseph Mayer at the Amateur Billiard Club by 400 to 379. This allowed him to move to the next round of games. He then lost the championship match on March 21, 1914 to Edward W. Gardner

Edward W. Gardner

Edward W. Gardner of Passaic, New Jersey was an American Balkline and straight rail billiards champion in 1902, 1906, 1910, 1914 and 1916.-Biography:...

 in the Balkline and straight rail

Balkline and straight rail

Balkline is the overarching title of a large array of carom billiards games generally played with two and a third, red , on a -covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, less table that is divided by on the cloth into marked regions called...

 championship by 400 to 386. On April 9, 1914 he again defeated Joseph Mayer in the Arlon Society's Interstate Challenge by 300 to 232.

External links

• Morris D. Brown at Flickr Commons