Yup. Thought it might be a Bain. That's a great image of Hoppe.
As an aside, there was a boxer around the same period also named Willie Hoppe. I always assumed he took the name of the more famous Billiards player as a marketing tool, but have never stumbled across confirmation of this.
Willie would have been jealous of the digits possessed by Mordecai Brown. Most of his career he fought with a total of 4 fingers..............both hands combined.
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