There was a fad some years back where everyone got to use a sledge and beat an old car to a pulp. I can remember watching videos of people pounding the car to pieces.
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Grady liked different versions of 9ball. He ran at least one back pocket 9 B tournament that is recorded on Accu-Stats
We had one table that got all the action that was called “Jaws”. The owner liked the idea that the table was so tuff, but in reality one of the pockets was f’d up and it was piece of shit.
1971, on my way to Bean/Devallaes' room, I had too stop.
My inline 140 cu in. Ford Falcon, with hydraulic lifters needed fixin.
I pulled off the hwy, got a hotel room right next to an auto repair shop.
I pulled the head, walked it over.
Next morning got up, installed the new head/fluids and got back on the road.
Total cost, including room, bout $160.
I always carried tools JIC a breakdown occurred, after that, I only drove Volvos/41yrs straight.
While at Weenie Beanies place I got a game I liked with all the breaks/9 ball 9' GC.
Welllllll, in this damp, dirty play conditions below ground pool room, I Never made a ball on the break.
I live in the dry desert.I played Gumps on the 4 1/2 x 9' G Crown that was room centered, close to the E wall where tables were placed.
I remember St. Louie/Louie Roberts locking horns with Carella.
Carella had em tapped out, Roberts was NOW down to his gold jewelry.
Carella valued it at $800 and they played one more set..........
But C warfare kicked in and Louie came back and busted Carella.
This particular tournament allowed the incoming player to pass back any shot.
All gone now, one way or the other. You are a survivor Bill!1971, on my way to Bean/Devallaes' room, I had too stop.
My inline 140 cu in. Ford Falcon, with hydraulic lifters needed fixin.
I pulled off the hwy, got a hotel room right next to an auto repair shop.
I pulled the head, walked it over.
Next morning got up, installed the new head/fluids and got back on the road.
Total cost, including room, bout $160.
I always carried tools JIC a breakdown occurred, after that, I only drove Volvos/41yrs straight.
While at Weenie Beanies place I got a game I liked with all the breaks/9 ball 9' GC.
Welllllll, in this damp, dirty play conditions below ground pool room, I Never made a ball on the break.
I played Gumps on the 4 1/2 x 9' G Crown that was room centered, close to the E wall where tables were placed.
I remember St. Louie/Louie Roberts locking horns with Carella.
Carella had em tapped out, Roberts was NOW down to his gold jewelry.
Carella valued it at $800 and they played one more set..........
But C warfare kicked in and Louie came back and busted Carella.
You also Jay, Tang is under the weather, hope your bird is well. Enjoy 2022
ChickenNougat
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This sounds like an interesting rule. Forgive the ignorance... So how did intentional safe shots work? Could you call them out? I missed this era of pool by about 10 years, obviously.
Edit: Never mind, watching the vid and it is "total offense"
Seems like a pretty awesome variation.
Under the weather is all....
Was it the one that had a match time limit on it? I remember seeing that thinking it was pretty dumb, and Grady in a commentary on another video said it was one of the dumbest ideas tried.
Ok good, I like Tang.
Upside/downside. The format was great for the “tv mentality” that became the driving criteria. Lots of tape time was devoted to pool, most particularly to the women’s side. They didn’t suffer the fracturing experienced by multiple competing organizational factions on the men’s side. Unfortunately, the network doled out the air time against main stream major sports under the (probably justly proven) mindset that there was a very small market percentage that would watch pool any time of the day or night regardless of major programming.
Also unfortunately, this was the point at which the representative “packaged version” of professional pool began being constantly dumbed down in an effort to grab additional audience that didn’t have the understanding, or certainly patience, to watch pros NOT make balls via spectacular shots ad infinitum as opposed to playing out the defensive & cerebral chess game involved in real mastery.
Checkers sells better than chess.
Now, of course, axe throwing & cheerleading have pushed pool off the mainstream airwaves in the US. But pool as a US organizational component(s) gave it a lot of help.
Yes, they had some overall match time. Earl was trying to run around the table trying to clean up as quickly as he could.