An intersesting Challenge, Who's up for the challenge

JC · Jul 13, 2019

deanoc said:
I will let anyone try to run one rack without the cue ball touching the rail
$500 bet on each rack

John Schmidt invited

I might offer 10 to one odds on 3 racks
your $100 to my $1000

Anyone who wishes to try can come to my house while i an staying home
to convalesce.

no one barrels

play on a like new Gold Crown 5 with simonis,no gimmick table

Need to know how the rails play first

deanoc · Jul 21, 2019

hi JC

i think my rails play like a gold crown

i have never played as good as i did when i had those 2 cues you made for me

my home room won't accept that long a cue,,best wishes with your cue making

alstl · Jul 22, 2019

Bob Jewett said:
Since no one picked up on this....

Leon was a no-cushion and behind the back (sometimes at the same time) specialist. Here is a thread that discusses him.

https://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=300673

He is in Ripley's for running 180 shooting with the cue behind his back.

A friend who was in San Francisco in the 1960s claims Leon ran 100 or 150 without a cushion and with a standard rack break. (As opposed to just spreading the balls on the table each rack as Knuchell mentions in the thread linked above.)

In The Straight Pool Bible, Babe Cranfield says that the greatest single run he ever saw was by Greenleaf. It was only a run of 60, but the cue ball touched the cushion only twice. I assume it was not for a proposition but just in a match.

Did you ever see him play? I'm guessing he must have banked every ball on a rail.

Bob Jewett · Jul 22, 2019

alstl said:
Did you ever see him play? I'm guessing he must have banked every ball on a rail.

I may have seen him sweating matches in SF but I never saw him play. A friend where I play did see him. I'll try to get more details, but it was a long time ago and brains are fallible.

An intersesting Challenge, Who's up for the challenge

JC

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deanoc

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alstl

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Bob Jewett

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