Alfredo de Oro was a Cuban professional carom billiards and pool player who several times held the world title in both three-cushion billiards and straight pool simultaneously. He was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1967, one of the very few non-Americans to receive the honor. His first public appearance as a professional was in the fourth US National Fifteen-ball Championship, held in New York, February, 1887.
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- Alfredo de Oro was a Cuban professional carom billiards and pool player who several times held the world title in both three-cushion billiards and straight pool simultaneously. He was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1967, one of the very few non-Americans to receive the honor. 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 champion John Roberts, Sr. in ann 1893 contest in New York, scoring 1,000 to 927, and later won the 1894 Havana Tnternational tournament. He won the World Continuous Pool Championship in a match against Jerome R. Keogh in New York, November, 1910, making the highest record run of 81. He also held the three-cushion championship 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).
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- Alfredo de Oro was a Cuban professional carom billiards and pool player who several times held the world title in both three-cushion billiards and straight pool simultaneously. He was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1967, one of the very few non-Americans to receive the honor. His first public appearance as a professional was in the fourth US National Fifteen-ball Championship, held in New York, February, 1887.
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