Mr. Bond posted an item about Jake Schaefer Jr's 400-and-out run at 18.2 balkline over in the billiard history sub-forum. That prompted me to look up some records...
Speaking of 400-and-out at 18.2...
These are from the 3-volume collection of records of carom billiards by Haase and Weingartner (2009):
The greatest record at 18.2 (or 47/2 as they say on The Continent) was by Ludo Dielis in the 1973 European Pentathlon in which they played straight rail, 47/2, 71/2, one cushion and three cushion. In his first five 18.2 matches, Dielis ran 400-and-out. That's 2000 straight points. In his next match, he missed after 10. Not bad for a Belgian. His average in six matches was 217.2 (so by deduction he got only 172 points in 5 innings in his last match).
European Championships -- 400 and out
1948 Rene Gabriels (45/2, the rest are 47/2)
1958 Piet van de Pol
1965 Martinus Wijnen
1966 Jean Marty
1967 Marty
1973 Dieter Mueller
1974 Francis Connesson
1975 Hans Vultink (second inning) and Klaus Hose and Willy Wesenbeek
1976 Hose, Christ vd Smissen, Ludo Dielis, Vultink
1977 Connesson, Dielis
1978 Piet Vet
1980 Jos Bongers, Wesenbeek
1981 Bongers -- further championship matches were played to 300, 250, 200, 100 or even 75 points.
World Championships -- 400 and out
(Some of the early matches were to 500 but no one had even a run of 300 then.)
1967 Marty
1969 Henk Scholte
1973 Vultink
1974 Manuel Girves
1978 Dielis
The next world championship was in 2003 and played to only 300 points or 250 in the group phase. Seven players ran out the length of the game. Frederic Caudron ran 300-and-out in his last three matches. There were at least four ties as the matches had equalizing innings.
Perhaps more impressive are the runs of 300-and-out at 18.1 that have been scored by several players. At the 28.2 (71/2) World Championship in 1968 Jean Marty ran 300-and-out against Raymond Ceulemans in 34 minutes. I had the pleasure of meeting Marty at a BCA Trade Show and got to play some 3-cushion with him. He (or now his son?) has a store in Paris.
Speaking of 400-and-out at 18.2...
These are from the 3-volume collection of records of carom billiards by Haase and Weingartner (2009):
The greatest record at 18.2 (or 47/2 as they say on The Continent) was by Ludo Dielis in the 1973 European Pentathlon in which they played straight rail, 47/2, 71/2, one cushion and three cushion. In his first five 18.2 matches, Dielis ran 400-and-out. That's 2000 straight points. In his next match, he missed after 10. Not bad for a Belgian. His average in six matches was 217.2 (so by deduction he got only 172 points in 5 innings in his last match).
European Championships -- 400 and out
1948 Rene Gabriels (45/2, the rest are 47/2)
1958 Piet van de Pol
1965 Martinus Wijnen
1966 Jean Marty
1967 Marty
1973 Dieter Mueller
1974 Francis Connesson
1975 Hans Vultink (second inning) and Klaus Hose and Willy Wesenbeek
1976 Hose, Christ vd Smissen, Ludo Dielis, Vultink
1977 Connesson, Dielis
1978 Piet Vet
1980 Jos Bongers, Wesenbeek
1981 Bongers -- further championship matches were played to 300, 250, 200, 100 or even 75 points.
World Championships -- 400 and out
(Some of the early matches were to 500 but no one had even a run of 300 then.)
1967 Marty
1969 Henk Scholte
1973 Vultink
1974 Manuel Girves
1978 Dielis
The next world championship was in 2003 and played to only 300 points or 250 in the group phase. Seven players ran out the length of the game. Frederic Caudron ran 300-and-out in his last three matches. There were at least four ties as the matches had equalizing innings.
Perhaps more impressive are the runs of 300-and-out at 18.1 that have been scored by several players. At the 28.2 (71/2) World Championship in 1968 Jean Marty ran 300-and-out against Raymond Ceulemans in 34 minutes. I had the pleasure of meeting Marty at a BCA Trade Show and got to play some 3-cushion with him. He (or now his son?) has a store in Paris.