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- William_A._Spinks abstract "William Alexander Spinks, Jr. (1865–1933) was an American professional player of carom billiards in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known professionally as William A. Spinks or (in the initialing practice common in his era) W. A. Spinks, and occasionally also referred to as Billy Spinks. In addition to being amateur Pacific Coast Billiards Champion several times, a world champion contender in more than one cue sports discipline, and an exhibition player in Europe, he became the co-inventor (with William Hoskins) in 1897 of modern billiard cue chalk.He was originally (and again in retirement from the billiards circuit) a Californian, but spent much of his professional career in Chicago, Illinois. At his peak, his was a household name in U.S. billiards; the New York Times ranked Spinks as one of \"the most brilliant players among the veterans of the game\", and he still holds the world record for points scored in a row (1,010) using a particular shot type. Aside from his billiards playing career, he founded a lucrative sporting goods manufacturing business. He was both an oil company investor and director, and a flower and fruit farm operator and horticulturist, originator of the eponymous Spinks cultivar of avocado.".
- William_A._Spinks activeYearsEndYear "1920".
- William_A._Spinks activeYearsStartYear "1892".
- William_A._Spinks alias "Spinks, William A. (most common professional name); Spinks, Wm. A. (professional name as used in some media); Spinks, W. A. (professional name as used in some media); Spinks, Billy (professional name as used in some media)".
- William_A._Spinks alias "W. A. Spinks, Billy Spinks".
- William_A._Spinks birthDate "1865-07-11".
- William_A._Spinks birthName "William Alexander Spinks, Jr.".
- William_A._Spinks birthPlace San_Jose,_California.
- William_A._Spinks birthYear "1865".
- William_A._Spinks deathDate "1933-01-15".
- William_A._Spinks deathPlace Monrovia,_California.
- William_A._Spinks deathYear "1933".
- William_A._Spinks knownFor Balkline_and_straight_rail.
- William_A._Spinks knownFor Cue_sports.
- William_A._Spinks knownFor Cultivar.
- William_A._Spinks occupation Carom_billiards.
- William_A._Spinks occupation Horticulture.
- William_A._Spinks occupation Invention.
- William_A._Spinks occupation William_A._Spinks__1.
- William_A._Spinks occupation William_A._Spinks__2.
- William_A._Spinks occupation William_A._Spinks__3.
- William_A._Spinks occupation William_A._Spinks__4.
- William_A._Spinks personFunction William_A._Spinks__5.
- William_A._Spinks residence Brooklyn.
- William_A._Spinks residence Chicago.
- William_A._Spinks residence Cincinnati.
- William_A._Spinks residence Duarte,_California.
- William_A._Spinks residence Monrovia,_California.
- William_A._Spinks residence San_Francisco.
- William_A._Spinks residence San_Jose,_California.
- William_A._Spinks thumbnail William_A._Spinks_Billiards_Mag._1923_Jan.jpg?width=300.
- William_A._Spinks title "Pacific Coast Billiard Champion".
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- William_A._Spinks wikiPageRevisionID "699784633".
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- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Aluminium_oxide.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Artistic_billiards.
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- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Avocado.
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- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Billiard_hall.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Bradbury,_California.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Brooklyn.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Brunswick_Corporation.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink California.
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- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Calvin_Demarest.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Carom_billiards.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:1865_births.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:1933_deaths.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:19th-century_American_people.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_businesspeople_in_the_oil_industry.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_carom_billiards_players.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_inventors.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_sports_businesspeople.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:Businesspeople_from_Chicago,_Illinois.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:Businesspeople_from_New_York_City.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:Businesspeople_from_San_Francisco,_California.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cue_sports_executives.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cue_sports_inventors_and_innovators.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:Farmers_from_California.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:Floriculturists.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Brooklyn.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Cincinnati,_Ohio.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_Los_Angeles_County,_California.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:People_from_San_Jose,_California.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:Pomologists.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sports_world_record_holders.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Chalk.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Cincinnati.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Corundum.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Cue_sports.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Cue_stick.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Cultivar.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Double-elimination_tournament.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Duarte,_California.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink East_Coast_of_the_United_States.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Edward_Fournil.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Edward_McLaughlin_(billiards_player).
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Eight-ball.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Exhibition_game.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Floriculture.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Frank_Ives.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink George_Butler_Sutton.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink George_Franklin_Slosson.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Gothenburg.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Handicapping.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Hass_avocado.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Horticulture.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Invention.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Jack_Carr_(billiards_player).
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Jacob_Schaefer,_Sr..
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Los_Angeles_County,_California.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Maurice_Daly_(billiards_player).
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Midwestern_United_States.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Monrovia,_California.
- William_A._Spinks wikiPageWikiLink Mount_Etna.