the anecdotes online about this person reference a ton of cheating and stealing
revisionist history is always cute, I'd place money unseen that Mosconi would have destroyed him
BEST POOL HUSTLER FROM OHIO IS Don Willis.
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the anecdotes online about this person reference a ton of cheating and stealing
revisionist history is always cute, I'd place money unseen that Mosconi would have destroyed him
Meh..I'll check back on this thread in about 5 years. I bet he'll have run a 100 racks by then.
GoldenFlash
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Hindsight and reflections........
And yet some of them are held up as heroes. re: That guy "Freddie The Beard" who liked to make brags about playing on air barrels, how many "guns we had in Chicago", how tough so-and-so was, and other such crap. (Freddie The Beard just never ran into one of those tush hog "good ole boys" fresh out of Brushy Mountain, who would've gouged out his eyes and made him their sissy girl.)
The pool shooting world is better off without them, in my opinion.
And yes......I cheated too. But I grew out of it, quit, and put that rotten lifestyle behind me. I was no mister goody-two-shoes back then.....but I had the sense to change.
And the final curtain for me isn't that far away on the horizon anyway... When I'll have to stand before the mercy of my maker. It happens a lot sooner than anyone ever thinks.
(yes Duckie, there IS such a thing as a horizon)
They'd ALL cheat..........if they thought they could get away with it.
And yet some of them are held up as heroes. re: That guy "Freddie The Beard" who liked to make brags about playing on air barrels, how many "guns we had in Chicago", how tough so-and-so was, and other such crap. (Freddie The Beard just never ran into one of those tush hog "good ole boys" fresh out of Brushy Mountain, who would've gouged out his eyes and made him their sissy girl.)
The pool shooting world is better off without them, in my opinion.
And yes......I cheated too. But I grew out of it, quit, and put that rotten lifestyle behind me. I was no mister goody-two-shoes back then.....but I had the sense to change.
And the final curtain for me isn't that far away on the horizon anyway... When I'll have to stand before the mercy of my maker. It happens a lot sooner than anyone ever thinks.
(yes Duckie, there IS such a thing as a horizon)
A wing shot is where you roll the object ball down the table and shoot it in the corner pocket while it's rolling.
It's what Earl is doing here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUtd7YisQ-c
You take an object ball and roll it down the table. As it's rolling you shoot the cue ball and make the object ball in the far corner pocket. Get the picture. The faster you roll the object ball, the harder the shot becomes. To make it even more difficult you place two more object balls down table maybe a diamond out from the corner pocket and six inches apart. Now you have to shoot the rolling object ball between them and into the corner. Once again I've never seen anyone do this better than Willis.
Forget about those who would knock him on here. He was the real deal and he would wow them today if he were still alive. Sometimes amazes me that people think that just because someone lived forty or fifty years ago they wouldn't have the same or better skills then players today. No one today banks as good as Eddie Taylor PERIOD! Sorry if anyone is offended by that remark but it remains true for me. I wonder what Truman Hogue would say if you asked him. And he played Taylor when he was a youngster.
GoldenFlash
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That wild ass "Fast Larry Gunninger"...(who everybody hated), could make 'em pretty darn good. I don't think Willis could've duplicated this one.
https://youtu.be/BckBIUHx8e8 (just copy and paste that URL into your browser)
He forgot to throw his cue onto the table and walk away.