I doubt that game ever happened.
Mosconi, being the no-gamble nit he was, wasn't about to expose himself to the skills of that Brit sharpshooter.
Just my opinion.....
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Possibly you knew who Sax Delporto was?
I've always asked the same question of the upright straight pool stance and all those legendary players who used it, if they could play rotation type velocity games and the answer is always yes yes they can blah blah blah. As if they can do anything and never missed, which I have also heard rumors of etc etc.
Well, where are these guys who could do all the this and that's? We got Efren, siegel, hall, parica and Varner, and that group combined along with strikland and a few others, we're basically impossible to beat and they "missed".
Any way, I knew Sax personally and yes, with the upright stance and in his 70's and 80 years of age, the guy had tremendous fire power and wasn't any where near the player he used to be and was said to be one of the best position players ever and I believe it.
He used to go around pool halls as "the masked marvel" and if you could beat him, you got some money or something. It was common knowledge he could run out nine ball into one hole. Not every time or else it turns into another "story" you constantly hear out there like Mosconi whippin ass on Davis blindfolded shooting with is left foot etc etc......but Sax and his abilities were quite well true. The guy was a very special player but even he himself admitted when I asked him, because varner was coming to town and I never seen a world champion play before in real life, if he played better position than Nick and he said "HELL NO, Nick is a world champion and can do ANYTHING, you'll see".
He was basically right from what I did in fact see. Dead cold out of the car from an all day drive, nick put his cue together, broke a full rack of 15 balls and ran it out first try in rotation, on a severly tight triple face pocket, gold crown 2.......piece of cake and everyone applauded.
I scratched my head and asked a friend what the hell was the big deal? Talk about ass licking at its finest.....he said, "dude, he ran it out in sequential order".
Ohhhh? Ok, gotcha lol, I didn't know or realize that lol.....wow yeah, let me get in line fo sum of dat butt lick'n.
What a dumbass i was for not realizing that. True story.