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Title: Stars Abound at Kling & Allen Recreation
Description: Description of Kling & Allen Recreation lounge, the "deluxe billiard parlor in the Dixon Hotel on 12th Street," host to such luminaries as Bob Hope and Willie Mosconi, with photo of Bennie Allen, "National Snooker Champion" and operator of the "luxurious billiard parlor" along with "Mrs. Lillian Kling, widow of the late great baseball catcher, Johnnie Kling."
Date: 1950
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Johnny Kling
Description: File contains information pertaining to local sports figure Johnny Kling who played for the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century. He was also a billiards player and owner of billiard parlors in Kansas City.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Book Seeks to Restore Cub's Great Jewish Heritage
Description: A new book entitled Johnny Kling: A Baseball Biography by Gil Bogen has recently been published. The author contends that Kling was Jewish although Kling's wife Lillian asserted he was not. Kling was a catcher for the Chicago Cubs from 1900-1911. He owned the Dixon Hotel in Kansas City and the Strand in Chillicothe, Missouri. He was also a professional billiards player as well as part owner of the Kansas City Blues baseball team.
Date: 2006-04-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Billiards Group
Description: Unidentified group at a billiards table. Joe Sanders does not appear to be in view.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders Playing Billiards
Description: View of Joe Sanders playing billiards with who is thought to be Augie Kieckhefer standing by him. Mr. Kieckhefer was a world champion billiards player.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders Playing Billiards
Description: View of Joe Sanders playing billiards with a baton in his hand. View also includes an unidentified woman and a man thought to be Augie Kieckhefer, world champion billiards player.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders Playing Billiards
Description: View of Joe Sanders and believed to be Augie Kieckhefer, a world three cushion champion, playing billiards at an unknown location.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Sanders Playing Billiards
Description: Identification with photograph reads "Old Maestro vs. Ole Lefthander at Billliards. Ben Bernie and Joe Sanders, famous orchestra leaders and better known as 'the old maestro' and 'old left-hander', respectively, recently matched their skill at their favorite pastime-billiards-in Chicago...Left to right; Augie Kieckhefer, ten times former world three-cushion campion; Joe Sanders, Willie Mosconi, pocket billiards ace; Ben Bernie, Allen Hall, runner-up in the 1934 world title angle tournament, and the one and only Ralph Greenleaf, 13-times former world pocket billiards king and recognized as the greatest pocket billiardist of all time."
Date: 1935~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sanborn Map, Kansas City, Vol. 3, 1896-1907, Page p370
Description: Southeastern part of early Kansas City in the area of the second Electric Park opened in May, 1907 at Paseo Boulevard and 46th Street, showing streets, additions and park structures and attractions. Large numbers at edges of page refer to page with adjoining area. At top of map, "Add'l Sheet, June 1907."
Date: 1896/1907
Object Type: Map

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 26 with Athletes
Description: Scrapbook page containing 19 advertising cards arranged in four rows of five (card in upper right corner is missing). Each card is 4 x 7 cm. and shows a portrait of and identifies an athlete and, usually, their sport. All but one card says: "Allen and Ginter's Cigarettes, Richmond. Virginia." Billiards, shooting, boxing, rowing, and baseball are included. Athletes shown: Shooters, Miss Annie Oakley, Capt. A. H. Bogardus, Dr. W. F. Carver;Billiard players, M. Vignaux, Albert Frey;Boxers, Jem Smith, Jimmy Carroll, Jake Kilrain, Charlie Mitchell, Terry McGovern;Rowers, Jacob Gaudaur, Albert Hamm;Baseball player, Charles Comiskey;Unidentified sports, Theo. Bauer, Joe Lannon, Wm. Muldoon, Ike Weir, Joe Acton, Matsada Sorakichi (all these men are pictured shirtless like the boxers).
Date: 1887~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Advertising Card Scrapbook Page 27 with Athletes
Description: Scrapbook page containing 15 advertising cards arranged in four rows of five (entire lower row is missing). Each card is 4 x 7 cm. and shows a portrait of and identifies an athlete and, usually, their sport. Cards say: "Allen and Ginter's Cigarettes, Richmond. Virginia." Billiards, rowing, and baseball are included. Athletes shown: Billiard players, Wm. Sexton, Maurice Daly, Jos. Dion, Geo. F. Slosson, J. Schaefer, J. L. Malone, Yank Adams;Baseball players, John Clarkson (Boston), Mike Kelly (Boston);Rowers, E. A. Trickett, Ed. Hanlan, Wallace Ross, John Teemer;Unidentified sports, J. H. McLaughlin, R. L. Caruthers.
Date: 1887~
Object Type: Advertising Card

Title: Making Billiard Tables
Description: Report on the Kansas City Billiard Table Mfg. Co. located at 1255 Main Street. Includes a description of the factory, as well as many of the billiard and bowling products manufactured by the company.
Date: 1903-01-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Cue From the Past
Description: Profile of Don Brink, a champion billiards player and owner of the Raytown Recreation pool hall in Raytown, Missouri. Brink discusses the intracies of billiards and reminisces about the "glory days" of the 1940s when top players from across the country came to Kansas City looking for games in the numerous billiards parlors located on 12th Street.
Date: 2008-03-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Dixon Hotel and Johnny Kling
Description: Baseball player and owner, Johnny Kling, was also an expert billiards player. He opened a hotel in 1912 called the Hotel Dixon which advertised that it had 39 Kling specially designed tables. It was located at 12th and Baltimore in downtown Kansas City.
Date: 2006
Object Type: Book Section

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