Laurdes Cavallari (Ferrara, January 6, 1916 - Milan, December 24, 1994) was an Italian billiard player.
Well nicknamed "Sixth" (or Sestino as he called it Winkler) as a resident in Sesto San Giovanni, near Milan. It was the largest from the point of view of rationality and tactics of play. Traditional pool billiard (billiards with holes and little ball). At the time it was nicknamed Rossetti "the Napoleon of the Billiard" for rational, brilliant and yet simple solutions, adopted in critical situations. As a strong and measured player, Cavallari has revolutionized a specialty (the five bowls) that before him was more of a cunning game than real skill.
Among Cavallari's skills, teaching was superb. He was among the very few able, seeing wrong, to say why the shot had been wrong and how it had to be corrected.
He liked to summarize his tactics: Three-legged male game - Long and well stretched billiards - Glittering billiards. He was a strong and measured player supporter, because he was more profitable. His best shot was the lap (Triplè). Specialist also in "Stevolotta" as it was called then. It was very correct in the game.
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