Since were tellin' tales about the Great One.
Toots Shor, the famous NYC restaurant owner, introduced Gleason and Mosconi.
Gleason thought himself quite the pool player and Shor introduced Willie as a dress manufacturer from Philly who played pool. Gleason, who liked to skin lambs, knew of Mosconi in name but didn't know the face. They went to a pool hall close by and decided to play 100 points of 14.1 for $50 a game. Mosconi stalled the first game winning like 100-70. Gleason says words to the effect: this guy was born with a horseshoe in his mouth.
They jack it to $100 a game.
Willie runs 70 off Gleason's break then runs the last 30 left handed.
Gleason does his famous, " homminhuh, homminhuh, homminhuh." Shor is laughing so hard he can't stand up straight but finally introduces them.
Lou Figueroa
all from Mosconi's
autobiography