Recent content by fbrent1972

Beautiful maple looks real good with the burled rosewood. Striking cue!

I saw the cue and case when Ernie came to Johnston City in the 1960s. He came to try to sell cues and he gave away a picture of the cues he was making (4 cues in the picture I believe).

Put me in too!

I was at Johnston City in 1968 (I believe) when Ernie came there to take orders for his cues. He brought the Silver Ginacue and offered it then for $4,000. I ordered a player that was $115 the best I can recall. One collector I talked to a few years back told me he had offered $100,000 for the...

I personally spoke directly to Truman about "a copy of the handout the players got before the ring game" and he told me that he never got anything before the ring game. Maybe what you were told was something that the people in the booth got.

On the time restraint... Grady announced right before the ring game started that he needed for the ring game to be over in 2 1/2 hours which would have been 10:30.

Edwin Reyes

You are right about all the changes, both this year and last year. Originally Truman was told this year there would be a ring game with 6 players on Friday night. Then I saw in a post where Grady had changed it to 10 players to be drawn playing a ring game on Friday and another on Saturday. Each...

!st Place was $12,000 and 2nd place was $6,000. This was before the "chop". I was one of a few who were in with Truman.