but...but...but...
" Mosconi, for instance, who was born in Philadelphia in 1913, was able to start as a mere tot, since his father owned a five-table hall and the family lived on the floor above. He became, as he says, "a child protege," and at seven was playing exhibitions at English Tommy's, one of the city's leading rooms, against a girl of his own age named Ruth McGinnis. Later on he gave exhibitions in towns near Philadelphia. When he was 16 his father became ill, Willie lost his job as an upholsterer's assistant and to support the family turned perforce to pool hustling or, as it is also known, sharking bets. "
"....Willie's chief asset in sharking was his youth and his delicate, blue-eyed (his mother was a Reilly) look of a Raphael angel: it was hard for the older, more experienced customers to imagine that this cherub could hold his own. But he could. One night in Philadelphia, in a game of One Ball beginning at 10 p.m. and ending at 7 a.m., he convinced a sport called Fatty Pincus by relieving him of a wrist watch, a diamond ring and $900. "
source: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1129513/1/index.htm
from Page 2 paragraph 4
" Mosconi, for instance, who was born in Philadelphia in 1913, was able to start as a mere tot, since his father owned a five-table hall and the family lived on the floor above. He became, as he says, "a child protege," and at seven was playing exhibitions at English Tommy's, one of the city's leading rooms, against a girl of his own age named Ruth McGinnis. Later on he gave exhibitions in towns near Philadelphia. When he was 16 his father became ill, Willie lost his job as an upholsterer's assistant and to support the family turned perforce to pool hustling or, as it is also known, sharking bets. "
"....Willie's chief asset in sharking was his youth and his delicate, blue-eyed (his mother was a Reilly) look of a Raphael angel: it was hard for the older, more experienced customers to imagine that this cherub could hold his own. But he could. One night in Philadelphia, in a game of One Ball beginning at 10 p.m. and ending at 7 a.m., he convinced a sport called Fatty Pincus by relieving him of a wrist watch, a diamond ring and $900. "
source: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1129513/1/index.htm
from Page 2 paragraph 4
