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Here's a link for searching through California papers. http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=q&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN------ You might find something interesting---like this: LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING APRIL 4,1910 MIND A BLANK FROM LONG PERIOD OF BILLIARD PLAYING Shipping Clerk...

One of a long series of animations out of the Czech Republic featuring 2 cartoon characters---Pat and Mat---that resemble Laurel and Hardy. They're popular world wide. This one deserves to be revived once in a while. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBWAE3p9MsU A Je To (Good Job). Ed

This has been posted before More Shorpy - 08-24-2012, 06:51 PM This is from another post in the Billiard and Pool History section: Just a sample of the great collection of old time photos from Shorpy. There is a reference to "pool" or "billiards" in each one. Lots of awnings and overhead...

What? Somethin' don't add up. Everything I've seen says Fats would have been 11 years old in 1924. It's something he might have claimed as another of his feats, but he didn't usually acknowledge any daughters. Ed

Cannonball story There is a feature article about Cannonball in the Aug. 1997 issue of Pool&Billiard magazine. EW

Too Easy? Those shots must look easy if you're a German 14.1 player--- https://vimeo.com/68260325 Ed

In 1986, Carl Conlon wrote a series of articles on 3-cushion in the National Billiard News. In this excerpt he emphasizes position play and describes an amazing performance by Ceulemans. Conlon was a real character. He told me that he was able to live on Social Security and travel the world...

However... This story has been repeated over and over. However...............in "Billiards" magazine for 1928 I found the following (PDF files of the magazine are at charlieursitti.com) "Remember, all pool and billiard stories are apocryphal." EW

A second shot Here's another EW

http://charlesursitti.com/ has .pdf copies of many years of "Billiards" magazine. This picture is from the July, 1928 issue. Cranfield would have been 12 at he time, so the picture may have been taken earlier. Ed W

Clem Tom Shaw's "Legends of the Road" in the Oct. 2008 Pool&Billiard Magazine has good pictures of Clem Metz. EW

Maybe Sonny gives him a good run for his money in the ears department. Maybe Diliberto or Junior Goff would have an opinion. I don't think Whitey or the Jockey would be that easy to find. I think it's definite that Springer was there in 1961. Good trivia, but as Cleopatra said to Caesar, "I...

More on Springer This is from an email I got from Starkville, MS some time ago: ...I knew I would be seeing Sonny and I wanted to see if he knew. Well he came in today and I just showed him a print of the picture and asked him if he knew any of the people in the picture. He said oh yea...

Lingo Maybe. Someone should ask Squirrel (Marshall Carpenter), who played him a lot and is still around at age 85. Ed

I don't think so I don't think so. If there was ever anybody you could tell by his ears it was Sonny Springer. He's in the other Johnston City photo, behind Shorty. http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=207181&highlight=johnston+city Ed

I Think I'll Pass on This One The right choice Ed W

Posters Lots of posters for sale here: http://www.allposters.ca/-st/Billiard-posters_c18713_.htm EW

Google to the rescue Google came up with this, which has comments about a lot of players besides Bachelor: http://billiardsdigest.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-5619.html EW

Back in '93 Here's one I didn't know about. EW

I have certified evidence (which, unfortunately, I can't locate at the moment) that Reece actually missed at 245,667 but nobody was awake to notice. EW