karensziti
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I know there was a Jimmy Henson from Maryland who used to come to my hometown pool hall when i was a teenager. Cool ass dude. Smoked Merit cigarette. Shot with a schon cue i believe.
"Shorty" from Richmond, VA - played good straight pool and one pocket
White guy? Jim Henson
"Patch Eye" or "The Lieutenant"
Jaffar Bashir- passed away a few yrs back
"Monster John" from Florida - played good one pocket
John Rouse- i believe he passed away too
Sy Brown- that was his name, i believe. Somewhat taller, thin black guy, was a bit of a talker at the table? Originally from NJ.
Eric
I know there was a Jimmy Henson from Maryland who used to come to my hometown pool hall when i was a teenager. Cool ass dude. Smoked Merit cigarette. Shot with a schon cue i believe.
Sy Brown was not tall, on the contrary, he was short - about 5'7"...we gambled playing One Pocket about 10 yrs. ago at the DCC - he played good...at that time, and for many years, he lived in Detroit...I believe he passed away several years ago - Steve Lomako would know.
- Ghost
Sy Brown was not tall, on the contrary, he was short - about 5'7"...we gambled playing One Pocket about 10 yrs. ago at the DCC - he played good...at that time, and for many years, he lived in Detroit...I believe he passed away several years ago - Steve Lomako would know.
- Ghost
Jack "oak cliff shorty" Potter from Oak Cliff
Lucky Louie Harper
Johnny aka Cannonball, I forgot his last name
And I knew him well,we played a few times,but
memory is not serving me well
Black Sam from Dallas
The Train...Greg Stevens
Slip Stroke Junior
Jack "oak cliff shorty" Potter from Oak Cliff
Lucky Louie Harper
Johnny aka Cannonball, I forgot his last name
And I knew him well,we played a few times,but
memory is not serving me well
Black Sam from Dallas
The Train...Greg Stevens
Slip Stroke Junior
Sy Brown was not tall, on the contrary, he was short - about 5'7"...we gambled playing One Pocket about 10 yrs. ago at the DCC - he played good...at that time, and for many years, he lived in Detroit...I believe he passed away several years ago - Steve Lomako would know.
- Ghost
Dude, you don’t forget a whole lot but even though he was always in Detroit I don’t think he lived here, I think you’re thinking about Stevie from Pittsburg aka Pittsburg Steve aka 10-2 (because his head was always tilted at either 10 o’clock or 2 o’clock).
Monster John was one of the players that I only saw at the Derby City Classic when it was that Executive Inn.
He was like a kid and was almost in action immediately. I never saw him actually win, but he was always was in action so he must have done okay.
I missed Monster John one year and someone told me he had passed.
I always enjoyed watching him, and miss him every year now during DCC.
Ken
You played pretty sporty too about that time. You took me on twice in my house for forty a game and I couldn't beat you. I was playing okay then too. You frking outmoved me! I hated that. :smile:
Dude, you don’t forget a whole lot but even though he
was always in Detroit I don’t think he lived here, I think you’re thinking about Stevie from Pittsburg aka Pittsburg Steve aka 10-2 (because his head was always tilted at either 10 o’clock or 2 o’clock).
http://www.onepocket.org/forum/index.php?threads/sy-brown-gone.7515/
Steve,
Although my memory is pretty bad, I'm thinking that Sy was from the Trenton, NJ area, originally and might have been living in west PA for a while. I haven't seen him in 10 years or so and heard he passed on?
Eric
I'm pretty sure he passed about 6 years ago or so.
In the 70's , there were 4 'shorty's in the DMV area.
One shorty played in DC . He liked playing at 7th & T room.
He also came to Bennies where I played him.
He was a young black man who lover to play and gamble.
There was another 'shorty' from Richmond . shorty Davies.
Played good and gambled .
Jim shorty Henson was a very good player. Played out of Tops pool room.
He came to Beenies at times, but could usually be found at Tops
Gun slinger
I'm thinking a young player (back in the day) maybe called lefty Joe. I think He played at tops
Do you remember him? I think he was maybe 15 or 16 and was a more then fair player.
Any idea what happened to him? There was another pool room near where crystal city is now, it might have been there. Tops was closer to Arlington I think, close to one of beenies hot dog stands on route 1. Actually in the remote recesses of my mind that room might have been called something else. Like so many things from back then I just can't retrieve the name.
I guess they never found out who the guy was that was "a person of interest " relative to Mike Surber? Didn't they have a picture or something?