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-Burling Hull is often credited with publishing the first Cone and Ball sequence in a booklet titled //Deviltry//, 1909. In his description he mentions that there had been some debate over the originality of the trick, but Hull had discovered that the other claimant used two rubber balls. Since Hull used a billiard ball and shell, he focused on method to sustain his claim of originality. However, he does not argue that the two-ball method existed before his, which places the credit to the effect on the previous creator. He fails to give the name of this magician or further details of his "saleof the method. While evidence of this trick being advertised for sale in the trade journals must still be found, Edward Maro's "Ball and Cone Trick", published two years after Hull's //Deviltry//, by Joseph Ovette in //The American Magician //, Vol. 3 No. 5, Sep. 1911, p. 1, matches in method all the details Hull gives, and since Maro died in 1908 at age thirty-eight of typhoid fever, this places his trick and method firmly prior to Hull's. The circumstantial evidence that Maro is the magician Hull alludes to is strong.+Burling Hull is often credited with publishing the first Cone and Ball sequence in a booklet titled //[[https://www.conjuringcredits.com/lib/tpl/credits/files/1909_Burling_Hull_Deviltry.pdf|Deviltry]]//, 1909, p. 2. In his description he mentions that there had been some debate over the originality of the trick, but Hull had discovered that the other claimant used two rubber balls. Since Hull used a billiard ball and shell, he focused on method to sustain his claim of originality. However, he does not argue that the two-ball method existed before his, which places the credit to the effect on the previous creator. He fails to give the name of this magician or further details of his sale of the method. While evidence of this trick being advertised for sale in the trade journals must still be found, Edward Maro's "Ball and Cone Trick", published two years after Hull's //Deviltry//, by Joseph Ovette in //[[https://askalexander.org/display/17059/The+American+magician+Vol+3+Issue+5/3|The American Magician]]//, Vol. 3 No. 5, Sep. 1911, p. 187, matches in method all the details Hull gives, and since Maro died in 1908 at age thirty-eight of typhoid fever, this places his trick and method firmly prior to Hull's. The circumstantial evidence that Maro is the magician Hull alludes to is strong.
  
-Ralph W. Hull, in his description of his routining of the Cone and Ball, titled "The Homing Ball" in his and Nelson Hahne's //Smart Magic//, 1935, p. 41, says, "Some of the fundamental moves of this little trick were first shown to me more than 25 years ago by my old friend, L. J. McCord (Silent Mora) in the days when we were young and magic was new to both of us."+Ralph W. Hull, in the description of his routining of the Cone and Ball, titled "The Homing Ball" in his and Nelson Hahne's //Smart Magic//, 1935, p. 41, says, "Some of the fundamental moves of this little trick were first shown to me more than 25 years ago by my old friend, L. J. McCord (Silent Mora) in the days when we were young and magic was new to both of us."
  
 Leslie Guest wrote a short biography of Silent Mora (Louis McCord) in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14854/M+U+M/378|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 48 No. 9, Feb. 1959, p. 375, where he gives this information: Leslie Guest wrote a short biography of Silent Mora (Louis McCord) in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/14854/M+U+M/378|M-U-M]]//, Vol. 48 No. 9, Feb. 1959, p. 375, where he gives this information: