arthur kreshell, the "seattle kid"

[evergruven]

living in seattle, I find it neat that byrne's "mcgoorty" mentions a player nicknamed the "seattle kid"
a quick google search revealed a few bits, one unsurprisingly connected to byrne
if you're able, feel free to add on- would be fun to learn more

Sep 25, 1905, page 5 - Spokane Chronicle at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com

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Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards

"The definitive work on pool and billiards" (National Billiard News) by champion player Robert Byrne. Now updated throughout and expanded with material on strategy in eight- and nine-ball, trick shots, and billiard memorabilia, Byrne's New Standard Book of Pool and Billiards is the...

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[Bob Jewett]

For those who can't get to the right page in Google Books, here is the start of the interesting page....

Byrne's book was published in 1978 so 70 years ago would have been the first decade of the 1900s.

Hoppe's explanation of the corner-5 system lacked any mention of the shifts, which makes his explanation not very useful. Of course it was not really Hoppe's explanation since he was not involved with writing the diamond system part of his book, which was published in the 1940s.

 

[evergruven]

For those who can't get to the right page in Google Books, here is the start of the interesting page....

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Byrne's book was published in 1978 so 70 years ago would have been the first decade of the 1900s.

Hoppe's explanation of the corner-5 system lacked any mention of the shifts, which makes his explanation not very useful. Of course it was not really Hoppe's explanation since he was not involved with writing the diamond system part of his book, which was published in the 1940s.

thanks bob. mcgoorty mentions a chart in his book that arthur made (presumably showing the tracks byrne mentions)

do you know how arthur's method/chart rated to what was/wasn't out there at the time? mcgoorty suggests that it was important.

 

[Bob Jewett]

thanks bob. mcgoorty mentions a chart in his book that arthur made (presumably showing the tracks byrne mentions)

do you know how arthur's method/chart rated to what was/wasn't out there at the time? mcgoorty suggests that it was important.

The Cannefax charts and Hoppe's book both claim that any shot to 2 on the third rail will go to the same place on the fourth rail (the corner). (I just checked Cannefax and I'm pretty sure Hoppe was the same.)

That's obviously broken. That it got published is quite remarkable.