Leo Le, the famous player of Karen billiards, is Spanish. He not only dominates the world in Karen billiards, but also dominates American billiards. 1887, after winning the American billiards championship for the first time, he won the American billiards championship for 15 times in 24 years. In Karen billiards, he won ten championships from 1908 to 19 19. He is seventy-one. In the face of young master Hope, he lost to a young rookie because his physical fitness could not meet the demand. American billiards has a short history, but it has become one of the two most popular billiards in the world in recent years. 1860 The first professional billiards championship in the United States was won by Komanla. The first American billiards masters were Leolay and Heston, followed by Tabosky, who won six world American billiards championships. There is even better Graf, who won the championship 19 19 to 1937 for eight years. After that, Moscone, an outstanding player, was the king of American billiards and won the American billiards world championship for thirteen times. Since the 1960s, the top players in American billiards have been Lhasa, Baucus and Kleffie Junior. In addition, there is Maruka Shi, a world-leading American billiards woman. Born in new york, she 1959 is a world-famous female tennis king. Davis won the first amateur snooker competition. After that, in the fierce competition of many masters, he maintained the title of world Nock professional billiards champion for more than 20 years with superb skills. 1939 is the heyday of snooker, and the high score record of sweeping all the balls on the table with one shot keeps emerging. The highest score of a shot in snooker billiards is 147, and the first time to reach this record was1928 in Lieonaro, Australia; 1942 is He Ruilinden; 1948, Davis, who retired from Canada for half, also achieved this result in 1995. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II, the craze for billiards in England also cooled down and stopped. 1946 After the end of World War II, the World Professional Snooker Competition resumed, Davis won the championship again, and finally retired because he was in his twilight years. Billiards first spread to Asia in India and Thailand, and then to Japan. 19th century was introduced to China in the late Qing dynasty. Before liberation, there were only embassies, concessions and small-scale billiard halls privately operated in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Harbin and Fanyang, with only a few tables. After liberation, there were two small factories in Shanghai, Cai and Xinxin, which produced billiards tables. But just after liberation, according to the people's economic living conditions at that time, it was too early to participate in billiards activities. So, it only took a few years to end. Nowadays, with the rapid development of economic construction, billiards, like other sports, has been popularized. There are no billiard halls and rooms in stadiums, clubs, entertainment centers, hotels and restaurants in many large and medium-sized cities. Many large, medium and small towns, streets and alleys, are full of billiards stalls. From 65438 to 0986, China Billiards Association was established in China, and local billiards associations were also established in various provinces and cities. 1960, the first national billiards competition was held. 1985, the second national billiards invitational tournament was held in Tiandang and Shanghai successively. 1986165438+10, the second national billiards invitational tournament was held. Especially1From March 5th to 8th, 987, the Jianpai Cup China International Billiards Competition held in Beijing was a world-class billiards competition, in which eight world billiard masters from the United States and eight players from China participated. The top eight countries in the world are Steve Davies, third dennis taylor, fifth jimmy white, seventh William Thorne, eighth terry griffiths, tenth Tony Meo, thirteenth Neil foulds and sixteenth Rex Williams. Their wonderful performance feasted our audience, and finally Willie Fuld beat jimmy white 5-2 to win the championship. Although eight players in China were eliminated in the first round, Zhang won a game. Through this TV broadcast, about 1 100 million viewers in China enjoyed this high-level broadcast, which triggered a billiard craze in China. 65438-0994 was the first time to jointly establish a professional billiards class with Beijing Sishi Zhongxingwei Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., which was favored by candidates, parents and society, and was supported by Taiwan Province Asia and World Federation. In order to carry out the policy of "China billiards goes to the world and faces the future" and cultivate new billiards players, referees and management talents with cultural theory and high technical level, the first "Beijing billiards sports school" in China was formally established on the basis of 1995 billiards professional class. 1996, Xingwei Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. and Beijing Sport University jointly established the billiards project of the Department of Physical Education, which created conditions for cultivating advanced billiards professionals in China.