Stu, normally your posts are very sensible, but this time I have to arrest you
It doesn't matter how many american champions who attended Johnston City back in the days - players outside the US ( and there are a few..) didn't even know about it at the time. Comparing that to a world championship is just plain wrong
Let's face it, what constitutes a world championship is and has long been one of the gray areas of our sport.
Johnston City, which took place in the 1960's alone, had 14.1, one pocket and nine ball. In the 1960's, were these games being played anywhere other than in the United States? Just to make sure I'm not forgetting the history, I am looking at the program which I still have from the 1978 World 14.1 Championships. In the men's field, there were no Europeans and just one Asian (a twenty something Jose Parica who wasn't competitive in the event). Whether the Europeans and Asians knew about Johnston City in the 1960's seems a trivial matter to me, because they had yet to demonstrate world class skills in pool. Yes, many of them were great snooker, 3-cushion, or English Billiards players, but those disciplines were not contested at Johnston City.
Johnston City was considered a world championship by many who post on this site, especially in one pocket and nine ball, which were secondary disciplines in pool back then.
My intent here was to simply offer the criteria I used in creating my list for the benefit of other posters. If the cost of doing so is that I'm now labeled temporarily nonsensical, I'll have to live with it.
Last edited:
