Another issue is that Willie made his run in 1954. John keeps running balls in 2018 and now 2019. Unless he duplicates the year of the run I'm going to have a hard time considering him the record holder.
What you consider is irrelevant.
The fact is, John Schmidt is the record holder.
The pool world now has its own version of the flat earth society.
Yeah....JS has a lousy sense of timing.