I never paid much attention to Johnny but even as a youngster I can't remember him having more than a jaybird mouth and a sparrow ass. If I had to make a list of pool players that could fight, johnny wouldn't make the list.
The one time we played, I don't remember Johnny saying a word between introductions and final payoff. Certainly no friendly back and forth. I have to believe Gabe is doing some fence mending now. You don't keep poking at somebody who isn't responding without it being sharking, intentional sharking in my opinion.
As for all of the "kid" talk, I would rather fight a sixty year old man than a nineteen year old. The nineteen year old is much closer to his peak.
@HawaiianEye, I started gambling nightly on my fifteenth birthday. Everything else about our stories other than location could be almost word for word! I was a pretty hardened player and gambler by sixteen. I had thousands of match-ups and quite a few fights by nineteen. I had even smoothed out my act by nineteen, rarely having gambling related issues after the first couple years.
I made it to Hawaii for a few weeks when I was nineteen or twenty, no gambling though. Visiting a brother stationed there.
Hu