In Parsippany, NJ (USA), a Frenchman named Stefan Cohen triumphs to become the 2009 World 14.1 Champion. What a great victory. I can't wait to read the forthcoming interviews. :smile:
Elsewhere around the globe, the old pool shark chalked the cue's tip, approached the table and, like an archer surveying a target, steadied his focus on the racked billiard balls in front of him.
With a snap of his right arm, the shark sent the cue ball sailing, scattering its colored comrades across the newly laid beige felt. At 82 years old, Ray Pinkal's still got it.
A group of businesses...in the Seattle area donated about $1,000 to buy Sun Terrace a pool table so that billiards lovers like Pinkal could sneak in a game of eight-ball without leaving the Wine Country Road facility.
The table, a 7-foot Valley, was delivered to the center Wednesday morning by a crew from Sure Shot Billiards and Darts in Kennewick. Sure Shot owner Steve Sawdey refurbished and sold the table with a marked discount.
"A lot of older people like to play," Sawdey said. "It keeps them thinking about the angles and it keeps them agile. It's harder on your body to play pool than you think. It's a great sport for seniors."
Source: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/850949.html [Retrieved 30 August 2009]
Looks like senior citizens are keeping pool alive and well. Elsewhere in the news, Chicago area to be exact, Pool Night has a decidedly different feel than you'd find in most billiard parlors. The youngest player here is 75, and Trudy, the founder of this all-female pool-shooting club, is a spry 94.
Missed shots lead to exclamations of "gee willickers" or "darn that ball," though an occasional "damnation" slips out, and players spend a good part of the evening lamenting their lack of skills on the felt-topped table.
Since 2006, the group has been gathering twice weekly in the ground-floor game room of their senior living center learning a hobby few ever imagined they would play. Trudy grew up in a tiny Iowa town where the pool hall was a forbidden destination.
All but one of the pool ladies of Mather Place are widows. Neatly dressed and proper, they seem to revel in their mildly bohemian hobby, proud to be doing something most women their age don't do. Mention playing a card game like bridge and Babette rolls her eyes -- too mundane. Ask if they'd take their game to a pub or pool hall and Van Bobrow, 87, raises an eyebrow with intrigue.
"I think some of our families have been a little surprised to hear about all this," Babette says. "But they're happy we're happy."
She looks around at her friends, pool sticks resting like rifles on their shoulders.
"Maybe we can incorporate this on our tombstones somehow."
Check out the video in ChicagoTribune Online:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-pool-ladies-23-bdaug23,0,1088956.story [Retrieved 30 August 2009]
Billiards Digest posts the deadline is approaching for the A&D Awards which is for the new and renovated pool rooms. So, if you have opened a new room in the last year or know of a great new billiard parlor, please drop Billiards Digest a line before August 30th.
As of the time of this writing, there is something majorly wrong with the Billiards Digest website. So, if you know of a worthy candidate, you may have to just e-mail them.
I'll tell you, that Mike Page's Fargo pool room sure does have a shot. Have you read the article on AzBilliards Main Page? http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?storynum=6870 [Retrieved 30 August 2009]
Looking for a good read? Here's a charming British last hurrah for dwile flonking and maggot racing entitled "Played at the Pub."
Here, you will find the stories not only of pool, darts, skittles and foosball, but of pie-eating and black-pudding flinging and clog-cobbing, of pea-throwing blighted by 'allegations of foul play involving nail varnish', of lawn billiards and guile bones, penny ***** and noddy board, hornie holes and milking cromock.
Gees, it sounds like a place I used to hang out at in my younger life. :grin:
Read more about it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/boo...T-THE-PUB-BY-ARTHUR-TAYLOR.html#ixzz0Pfx8CTQ6 [Retrieved 30 August 2009]
Picture: Mr Jack Fowler, a coal merchant in Bedford regularly brings his horse Sam into the public bar of the Balloon Inn for a beer and a game of dominoes with the lads, 1937. :welcome:
And that's Pool in the News, this August 2009. :smile:
Elsewhere around the globe, the old pool shark chalked the cue's tip, approached the table and, like an archer surveying a target, steadied his focus on the racked billiard balls in front of him.
With a snap of his right arm, the shark sent the cue ball sailing, scattering its colored comrades across the newly laid beige felt. At 82 years old, Ray Pinkal's still got it.
A group of businesses...in the Seattle area donated about $1,000 to buy Sun Terrace a pool table so that billiards lovers like Pinkal could sneak in a game of eight-ball without leaving the Wine Country Road facility.
The table, a 7-foot Valley, was delivered to the center Wednesday morning by a crew from Sure Shot Billiards and Darts in Kennewick. Sure Shot owner Steve Sawdey refurbished and sold the table with a marked discount.
"A lot of older people like to play," Sawdey said. "It keeps them thinking about the angles and it keeps them agile. It's harder on your body to play pool than you think. It's a great sport for seniors."
Source: http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/northwest/story/850949.html [Retrieved 30 August 2009]
Looks like senior citizens are keeping pool alive and well. Elsewhere in the news, Chicago area to be exact, Pool Night has a decidedly different feel than you'd find in most billiard parlors. The youngest player here is 75, and Trudy, the founder of this all-female pool-shooting club, is a spry 94.
Missed shots lead to exclamations of "gee willickers" or "darn that ball," though an occasional "damnation" slips out, and players spend a good part of the evening lamenting their lack of skills on the felt-topped table.
Since 2006, the group has been gathering twice weekly in the ground-floor game room of their senior living center learning a hobby few ever imagined they would play. Trudy grew up in a tiny Iowa town where the pool hall was a forbidden destination.
All but one of the pool ladies of Mather Place are widows. Neatly dressed and proper, they seem to revel in their mildly bohemian hobby, proud to be doing something most women their age don't do. Mention playing a card game like bridge and Babette rolls her eyes -- too mundane. Ask if they'd take their game to a pub or pool hall and Van Bobrow, 87, raises an eyebrow with intrigue.
"I think some of our families have been a little surprised to hear about all this," Babette says. "But they're happy we're happy."
She looks around at her friends, pool sticks resting like rifles on their shoulders.
"Maybe we can incorporate this on our tombstones somehow."
Check out the video in ChicagoTribune Online:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-pool-ladies-23-bdaug23,0,1088956.story [Retrieved 30 August 2009]
Billiards Digest posts the deadline is approaching for the A&D Awards which is for the new and renovated pool rooms. So, if you have opened a new room in the last year or know of a great new billiard parlor, please drop Billiards Digest a line before August 30th.
As of the time of this writing, there is something majorly wrong with the Billiards Digest website. So, if you know of a worthy candidate, you may have to just e-mail them.
I'll tell you, that Mike Page's Fargo pool room sure does have a shot. Have you read the article on AzBilliards Main Page? http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.php?storynum=6870 [Retrieved 30 August 2009]
Looking for a good read? Here's a charming British last hurrah for dwile flonking and maggot racing entitled "Played at the Pub."
Here, you will find the stories not only of pool, darts, skittles and foosball, but of pie-eating and black-pudding flinging and clog-cobbing, of pea-throwing blighted by 'allegations of foul play involving nail varnish', of lawn billiards and guile bones, penny ***** and noddy board, hornie holes and milking cromock.
Gees, it sounds like a place I used to hang out at in my younger life. :grin:
Read more about it: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/boo...T-THE-PUB-BY-ARTHUR-TAYLOR.html#ixzz0Pfx8CTQ6 [Retrieved 30 August 2009]
Picture: Mr Jack Fowler, a coal merchant in Bedford regularly brings his horse Sam into the public bar of the Balloon Inn for a beer and a game of dominoes with the lads, 1937. :welcome:
And that's Pool in the News, this August 2009. :smile:
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