The game of billiards has destroyed my naturally sweet disposition

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Mr. Clemens attended a billiard tourney on the evening of April 24, 1906, and was called on to tell a story. The game of billiards has destroyed my naturally sweet disposition. Once, when I was an underpaid reporter in Virginia City, whenever I wished to play billiards I went out to look for an easy mark. One day a stranger came to town and opened a billiard parlor. I looked him over casually. When he proposed a game, I answered, “All right.”