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- Masako_Katsura abstract "Masako Katsura (桂 マサ子, Katsura Masako, 1913–1995)About this sound listen , nicknamed "Katsy" and sometimes called the "First Lady of Billiards", was a Japanese carom billiards player who was most active in the 1950s. Katsura trailblazed a path for women in the sport by competing and placing among the best in the male-dominated world of professional billiards. First learning the game from her brother-in-law and then under the tutelage of Japanese champion Kinrey Matsuyama, Katsura became Japan's only female professional player. In competition in Japan she took second place in the country's national three-cushion billiards championship three times. In exhibition she was noted for running 10,000 points at the game of straight rail.After marrying a U.S. Army non-commissioned officer in 1950, Katsura emigrated with him to the United States in 1951. There she was invited to play in the 1952 U.S.-sponsored World Three-Cushion Championship, ultimately taking seventh place at that competition. Katsura was the first woman ever to be included in any world billiards tournament. Her fame cemented, Katsura went on an exhibition tour of the United States with 8-time world champion Welker Cochran, and later with 51-time world champion Willie Hoppe. In 1953 and 1954 she again competed for the world three-cushion crown, taking fifth and fourth places respectively.Little was seen of Katsura for the next few years. She made 30 exhibition appearances in 1958, and went on a one-week exhibition engagement the following year with Harold Worst, but did not compete in any professional tournaments. In 1959, she made two television appearances on ABC's You Asked for It, and one on the CBS primetime television hit What's My Line?. Katsura returned to competition in 1961, playing a challenge match for the World Three-Cushion title against Worst, then reigning world champion, and was defeated by him. Katsura disappeared from the sport thereafter, only making a brief impromptu appearance in 1976. She moved back to Japan in about 1990 and died in 1995.".
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- Masako_Katsura deathDate "1995".
- Masako_Katsura deathYear "1995".
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- Masako_Katsura caption "Katsura lining up a shot at the 1954 World Three-Cushion Billiards tournament in Buenos Aires".
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- Masako_Katsura knownFor "Fifth place, 1953 World Three-Cushion championship;".
- Masako_Katsura knownFor "First woman to ever play for a world billiards crown;".
- Masako_Katsura knownFor "Fourth place, 1954 World Three-Cushion championship".
- Masako_Katsura knownFor "Seventh place, 1952 World Three-Cushion championship;".
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- Masako_Katsura name "Katsura, Masako".
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- Masako_Katsura occupation "Professional carom billiards player".
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- Masako_Katsura quote "I practice before parlor open every day for two hours. Every day I practice, Soon I play with many men. Men want to beat me. I play men, six, seven hours a day. Men no like, they do not beat me. If I hit no good, my brother-in-law, after billiard parlor closed, say this shot no good. This shot bad, I make good. He tells me. Not so many good woman players in Japan. I have sister. Very good. Same stroke.".
- Masako_Katsura quote "If you eliminate three cushion, I don't think you could find five people in the world who could beat her. Her best games are straight rail and balkline, but she'll be the three cushion champion of the world in time. She has one of the best strokes I've ever seen, and she shoots as well left-handed as right-handed.".
- Masako_Katsura quote "Masako Katsura was the greatest thing that ever happened in the whole history of billiards... maybe the greatest thing that ever happened period. For a woman to compete on absolutely equal terms with men... and a cute, feminine woman, at that... why, it's never been done before or since. She was not competing against just any men, understand, she was competing against the greatest players in the world. She was a sensation. People who had never heard of billiards before stood in line around the block for tickets to see her perform.".
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- Masako_Katsura source "—Danny McGoorty, as quoted in Robert Byrne's McGoorty: A Pool Room Hustler".
- Masako_Katsura source "—Masako Katsura, from an interview by Jimmy Cannon, excerpted in Byrne's Advanced Technique in Pool and Billiards".
- Masako_Katsura source "—Welker Cochran, quoted in Byrne's Advanced Technique in Pool and Billiards".
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- Masako_Katsura comment "Masako Katsura (桂 マサ子, Katsura Masako, 1913–1995)About this sound listen , nicknamed "Katsy" and sometimes called the "First Lady of Billiards", was a Japanese carom billiards player who was most active in the 1950s. Katsura trailblazed a path for women in the sport by competing and placing among the best in the male-dominated world of professional billiards.".
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