Dear Dale--
That's the man. Try this on for coincidence. I am sitting at the DCC this year on the last day. An elderly man asks me if the chair next to me is free. I say sure it is. He said he had hit some bad weather driving over from Hamilton, Ohio, near Cincinnati. I say, so you're from Hamilton, and he says yes. I say, the first time I ever saw anybody make a real run in straight pool was back in the old days. The guy was from Hamilton. His name was "Hamilton Marty." (We're talking 1963 here!) The elderly man says, "I'm Hamilton Marty." He was just thrilled. We had a great conversation about the old time players in Cincinnati, including, of course, Clem, whom I saw only once but never saw actually play. Garland Hutchison, Tom Smith, Sideline Sid, Joey Spaeth, Donny Anderson, Clyde Norman, we went down the list. I was just a college kid at the time with eyes as big as pie plates when I saw real pool played.