Herman Popeijus

Herman Popeijus
Popeijus at the Dutch Three Cushion Championships 1976 in Heeswijk
Personal details
birthday	1924
place of birth	Barendrecht Netherlands
date of death	May 20, 1997
Place of death	Breda Netherlands
nationality	Netherlands
Achievements Unless otherwise stated, the information relates to the “three cushion” discipline.
Maximum series (HS): 15
1955, EM Amsterdam
Continental Championships:
1 × vice
Other tournaments:
s. successes

Herman Popeijus (* 1924 in Barendrecht , Netherlands ; † May 20, 1997 in Breda ) was a Dutch carambola player in the three- cushion discipline .

Career

In the 40s and 50s Popeijus played in the billiards club "Het Schaapje" in Smitshoek, a district of Barendrecht .

In the 1950s, Popeijus became Dutch champion five times. It was the time after Jan Sweering and Jan Broekhuizen and before that of Henny de Ruijter , Cees van Oosterhout , Jan Doggen and Rini van Bracht . Popeijus managed to crown himself the best Dutch three-pander in 1963 and the mid-1970s (1976 and 1977), with general averages (GD) that remained below one (1,000). The billiard player from Etten-Leur has won the national title in three cushion eight times and is in third place in the all-time list.

His mentality made Popeijus a billiard player who was the first to manage a series of high series (HS) of 15 billiards . For a long time, the unorthodox popeijus was someone to consider when it came to billiards. His technique and mentality allowed him to keep him as a top national player into the eighties. Many of his comrades-in-arms said of him: “He had no nerve!”, He played so calmly.

During his almost 40-year career, Popeijus collected a total of 16 national medals and at the European Championships in 1955 and 1963 he captured a second and a third place.

successes

• European three-cushion championship  : 1955 1962
• Dutch three-cushion championship : 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1976, 1977 1960, 1962, 1968 1953, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1978

Swell:

Web links

Commons : Herman Popeijus  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Herman Popeijus. Biljartvereniging Geertruidenberg 1977, 2015, archived from the original on October 8, 2019 ; Retrieved November 5, 2019 (Dutch).  
2. ^ ^{A b} Heinrich Weingartner : Herman Popeijus 1924–1997 . Ed .: billard Heinrich Weingartner . tape  97 , no. 8 . Self-published, 1997, ZDB -ID 1087098-2 , p. 33 (obituary).
3. ↑ player profile. Kozoom , accessed November 5, 2019 (Dutch).