Antique World Championship Pocket Billiard Tournament Ponzi’s NYC  c1937. This is the original poster from the two week long tournament. Players include: James Caras, Ralf Greenleaf, Andrew Ponzi, Erwin Rudolph, Bennie Allen, William Mosconi, Charles Seaback, Onofrio Lauri, Marcel Camp, Joeseph Crane and Fay Gariner. The 1937 tournament is of historical significance in the billiard world.  It was Ralph Greenleaf’s incredible return to greatness.  Greenleaf drunkenly washed out of the 1933 world championship and then was consumed by alcoholism during the depths of the Great Depression.  He didn’t play in any professional tournaments in 1935-1936.   He vanished in late 1935 and finally washed up in an Oklahoma jail cell in August 1936.  His ex-wife took him back and only a few months later he was in top form.  He won this 1937 tournament and would be unbeatable for the rest of the decade. Size: 45″ X 32″. (Item 216)