Calvin Demarest

[1] He later gained notoriety for stabbing his wife and injuring his mother during a suicidal psychotic episode.

[5] On March 9, 1907, he set a new record 14.2 balkline billiards average of 27 3–11 during the national amateur championship tournament in New York City beating the record set by Justus Ferdinand Poggenburg III.

[5] In 1910, he defeated the renowned French champion Rerolle for the international amateur championship.

[2] He was deemed unfit to stand trial and was remanded to the Elgin Asylum for the insane.

He was reported to have died there eight months later, on February 22, 1916,[9] but the following day's The New York Times ran an item titled "Calvin Demarest Not Dead", in which the paper wrote "Dr. Hawley, Deputy Superintendent at the asylum, is at a loss to explain how the report of Demarest's death occurred.