sentences:  The inspiration for the new system was simply making it possible for the newly ascendant Willie Hoppe to be meaningfully challenged – his near-unassailability was hurting billiard tournament revenues, because the outcome was considered foreordained by many potential ticket-buyers.The system was expected to level the playing field in other ways, especially making it easier for skilled amateurs to enter the professional ranks.Well into the 1920s, Spinks was still a well-respected figure in the billiards industry, and wrote articles for publications such as "Billiards Magazine", in which he sometimes focused on rather esoteric topics, as in his January 1923 piece on "Ventilation of Billiard Rooms" in an era when tobacco smoking was prevalent.