Alvin Thomas "Titanic Thompson" stories?

The Kiss said:
When you say upside down do you mean he used the non face side of the club head, or that he used the club head facing forward but reversed. So the club face was verticle as opposed to horizontal
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Yeah, the club face is vertical.....
..set up the club with the heel on top...the angle of the face is favoring
hooking the ball...so you open your stance and move your hands ahead
of the club face....and grip the club much firmer.

With no tee, it is much more difficult 'cause you're hitting every shot on
the toe and it requires an even firmer grip and you still get less distance.
But off the tee you can still hit the sweet spot.
 
The first time I ever even heard of the guy was back in the 60's. I was in high school and a story about him was in the Readers Digest.
There was a story about him beating the worlds Horse shoe Pitching champ out of several thousand. The catch was that they play on TT"S own court which he had altered by 8 inches and robbing the guy.
My favorite was of him fixing a race at some New York Track. He met in a hotel the night before the race and paid off like 5-6 jockeys.
The next day his horse ran dead last. He was standing down close to the finish line when he realized he didn't recognize any of the jockeys.
It told of the changing hiway markers and such too.
 
Chip Roberson said:
Story I heard about him playing golf--He was at the Homestead and teeing it up with Sam Snead and an old buddy that since passed by the name of Slick Yeaman. Yeman would travel with Snead during his hayday and told me the following.
Thompson would bet on anything and was a fare golfer, but no way in Sneads calibar. They got a few small bets out of him but he lost everyone of the bets he made with them that day--that was until they got in --He had placed bets with other people at the club that he would out drive Snead on atleast 4 occasions while they were out--Slick said on all 4 short par 3's Thompson hitting last easch time hit his driver straight as an arrow at least a 100 yards past the green
From what I was told he made some serrious money on that bet--the ones playing with him thought he had lost his mind
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I love this story....I thought I'd heard them all.

Thompson beat a guy for a few hundred on a 5x10 snooker table...
..he bet him double or nothing he could jump the table full-length
without touching it.....Thompson won.

Here's a man who can do a pool table....
https://www.google.com/url?url=http...+table&usg=AFQjCNFfF9YTV4DE1SSiBjKI6MFxjqgA_w
 
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