Recent content by Stones

Back in the early '90's, my league team and I were playing in the semi-final match for the city championship. About half way through the match, I draw this guy whom I had never seen before. As the match was about to start, I walked over and put my hand out to shake his hand. He looked at me...

Thanks, Scott. Off topic: When I was 12-13 yrs. old, my friends and I were too young to get into the local poolrooms. We would ride our bicycles about three miles out into the country to an old icehouse. The store had an old eight foot worn out pool table with clay balls on an open air...

Back in the late 60's, 14.1 was much more popular than it is today. ABC Wide World of Sports televised matches back then. I met a friend of mine at the poolroom and we decided to play some straight pool. We'd been playing for about an hour when I caught a gear. I had a run of 68. When I...

First time I saw Earl play was at Red's in Houston in the early 80's. He was playing Atlanta Danny Greer in a private match. Earl was giving Danny the seven and Danny was running over him. Earl was doing everything he could to shark Danny from short racking, loose racking to talking crap while...

I've posted this before: I knew this guy who was a liar, cheat and a thief. Couldn't stand to even be around him. He didn't like me either since I called him out a couple times for trying to stealing cue sticks. I'll call him the A-HOLE. I was playing a young kid who I'd never seen in a...

Hell, I've called multiple fouls on myself over the years. Just couldn't live with myself on a tainted victory. I called a obvious foul on a teammate at the state championship years ago. We were tied hill-hill with no ref watching. The opposing player called the foul and my teammate refused...

Years ago, I remember reading an article about Efren and Raymond Cuelemans playing a match in the U. S. 3 Cushion Championships. It was a race to 50 points. Efren was leading the match with the score of 48-37. Cuelemans put a 13 point run on Efren to win the match. Raymond said after the match...

Back in the mid 80's and early 90's, the owner of the pool room I managed would have Willie down twice a year for exhibitions. Willie would usually fly in the day before the exhibition and the owner, I and Willie would go out for a nice dinner. While we were eating one time, I asked Willie...

I've told this story before on the forum. Two guys are barking at each other trying to make a cheap game. Finally, they decide to play short races for $20. As they're heading to the table, one of the guys asks the other to post the money up front. The other guy barks back "Post? What do you...

Got a couple of books I'm thinking of selling: "McGoorty" by Robert Bryne Hardback edition. Appears to be a first edition: copyright 1972. The book itself is in okay condition, but the outside cover is very worn and tattered. "Billiards"- subtitled "Hustlers & Heros, Legends & Lies and The...

What do you call a pool hustler with no girlfriend? Homeless! Stones

Spent the last four days looking after my girlfriend's dogs while she flew to Nebraska to see her first grandchild. One pup is a 100 lbs and the other about 50. Anytime I laid down, both dogs would pile on top of me. After a five minute wrestling match each time, I finally got them to lay down...

Years ago, when I lived in Houston, I was driving in a part of town I didn't frequent very often. I looked up and saw a bar sign which said "Pool Tourney 8:00", Looked at my watch and it was 7:30 and thought "what the hell?". As I was paying my $10, I asked the tourney director what rules are...

I used to be the tournament director for the Fast Eddie's 9 Ball Tour for a decade. Over the years, we had many cue makers sponsor our tour by donating cues to help cover the cost of our add-on money through raffles. I would always buy a few raffle tickets myself just to donate to the cause...

Just read a post on FB from Heather Bryant (Charlie’s wife). She said the word is it looks like Tony had a stroke. Stones