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Tournaments or Gambling...Which makes you a stronger player?

ShootingArts
HawaiianEye said:
20 pound ball?

I think the highest weight is 16, except for some kind of illegal custom novelty ball.
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This was around 1970. My local alley had balls up to twenty pounds on the rack and I remember a man bowling with a 26 pound ball who was effective with it. He used another ball for spares. No idea which of these balls were legal where and in which leagues or associations.

Hu
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John Schmidt runs 820

ShootingArts
maha said:
and mosconi ran that record doing it for free with no recognition associated with it at the time. and possibly after 500 balls got tired of appeasing the crowd and got way lax on it.. as he wasn't a people person.

we cant compare current records to his or other old ones as the equipment, and attempts are totally different now.
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Best I recall Willie wasn't hooked or facing a particularly hard shot when he missed. I think he mostly decided he had given enough free show and relaxed.

Charlie Ursetti said he saw Willie run over six hundred in practice, no hard count. Willie said no big deal, he could run over a thousand. Willie didn't see any incentive. I think this was on a nine foot table but not certain offhand. The story could probably be found.

Willie wasn't bashful about gambling either. His Brunswick contract forbade it so he quit. I remember when Fats spun him up about not having any gamble on network TV Willie threw his wallet in the middle of the table.

Willie wasn't known as a sweetheart but his schedule was brutal for years. I doubt I would have been as socialble as he was.

Hu
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Tournaments or Gambling...Which makes you a stronger player?

HawaiianEye
ShootingArts said:
I bowled a little in high school. Self taught to use the term loosely, I used a three step approach and hummed a twenty pound ball. Went to college and freshmen got the last choices. Had to take PE. It rains on a golf course a lot in the fall in South Louisiana. Doesn't rain in a bowling alley, decision made!

What I didn't bargain for was a four step approach, the only choice. This started me on the wrong foot first and when I was at the foul line my wrong foot was forward. There were about a hundred people in my bowling class and I was the worst, not excluding the little ol' lady in her eighties!

I would throw in a weird little half-step trying to get my approach "right" to me. Other times I would hit the back of my leg so squarely with the bowling ball that the leg went further than the ball!

I was bowling low 200's with three steps. When I tried to bowl after giving up on the bowling class I discovered I couldn't bowl. Not with three steps, not with four, back to the pool table. Thank goodness they didn't have a pool course for PE!

Hu
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20 pound ball?

I think the highest weight is 16, except for some kind of illegal custom novelty ball.
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Tournaments or Gambling...Which makes you a stronger player?

M
all the best players i knew from the past all gambled. those that i knew that didnt or played for small stakes never really got past even close to shortstop speed.
and so it is with most current players. there are a few tournament champs that dont.

and it makes no sense to say you cant gamble because the other players are so good around there. you make games. few gamble even, if they are smart. those that do have to be the best or broke, nothing in between.

i played many of the best in the world. never even, and had a good record. and was one of the few always in action in the pool room if i wanted to be. and won.
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