Great Pool Room Stories

I was about 19 yrs old and at Norwalk Family Billiards in So Cal. A friend Bob Brown and I were broke when two players asked Brown to hold their stakes 7 ahead 9 ball $50 a piece. Brown put me in action for$100 against a much weaker player. I was afraid to play because of the potential bad outcome. Well I was dogging it. The sets of the other players were coming to conclusion when Brown told me to start riding the 9 ball. I made the 9 ball three times in a row to win out just as those other sets finished up. I was so nervous that night.
 
brunswick1901 said:
The Jansco brothers moved their Johnston City Pool Tournament to the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas after the Feds raided their tournament for, of all things, gambling!

Ronnie Allen was of the top players in Johnston City and Las Vegas and second only to Minnesota Fats in using his banter to get into a game and when necessary use it during a game to win by whatever he thought he could get away with.

His antics were fine in a pool room or in the practice room of a tournament but not during the tournament.

Ronnie had already been guilty of several disruptions and when the current problem could not be resolved the referee called the tournament director to make the decision.

The tournament director was Conrad Burkman, the publisher of the National Billiard News.

As Conrad approached the table everyone started talking at the same time and Ronnie was the loudest of the voices.

Conrad raises both hands to motion for everyone to stop talking then without waiting to hear what happened said, "Ronnie Allen is wrong", then he turned around and walked away!
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Makes me wonder why I never liked nor played in tournaments?!?
Look at all the fun I missed.
Aww Shucks.😉
 
Rusty in Montana said:
Cowboy Jimmy Moore was hired by George Frank to go around and play some exhibition matches in Montana and in the Dakota's I had the honor to play a few racks of 8 ball on one of the 9 foot tables and it was amazing what Jimmy could do with a pool cue in his capable hands .
For me this wax a dream come true even if I didn't win a game .

When Jimmy was at a Corner Pocket in S Dakota a local hustler played a few warm up racks with him and he tells him,that he played pretty good for a old man ! As I'm sure you can imagine Jimmy's reaction to this they settled on a race to 11 , playing 9 ball winner breaks for $ 1.000.00

Needless to say the hustler only got to the table to rack ! He then offered to pay Jimmy the cash and Jimmy told him to go get some pool lessons !

Frank McGowan told me this story shortly after it had happened I wish I could've been there to watch it first hand !
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Class act.
 
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