As far as the requirement of an opponent to make the exhibition a match, I don't see why that's necessary. So far as can be told, the "opponent" for the match in which Mosconi set the record was mostly there to hold a cue stick and watch, although he did take a few shots. Mosconi had a reported history of not wanting to play against someone who might beat him, but that's OK since the star of the evening was Willie and the people were there to see him play.mr bob jewett ,
what do you think about the rules and the records , personally ?
Also, some people consider a run to be ended when the pre-defined score is reached. That is not an unreasonable point. Somehow, exhibition matches don't have an "ends at 200 total" rule.
I do think it is reasonable to require the player to play by all of the rules of the game. "Cue ball fouls only" is not part of the rules of 14.1. For that reason, I think it would be a good idea for an exhibition run to have a referee present who takes care of cleaning the equipment as necessary and also affirms in writing that the run was executed fully within the rules of play. A video recording helps with that.
Related to which, there have been reports that some old-time high runs violated the rules. I can understand how, at 333 balls into the run, the crowd might feel that even though Joe may have touched the 7 while bridging by it, he didn't really move it, or when he called the 2 ball he really meant the 10 which was clearly the ball he was shooting at.:wink:
As far as records keeping, I think some governing body should do it. None is.