Here is a great shot

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Perhaps this is a repeat, but who cares:confused: its good to see again, just like in the Hustler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSbZaQADc8&NR=1

Oh yeah 2mins 41 seconds is the shot time

I sure do like the big pockets on these old tables with the slow cloth. I'm board with pitty-pat pool on billiard cloth. I wonder how the old school players would play on modern equipment?? I think the champions would still be the champions.

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Fatboy
 
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Fatboy2 said:
Perhaps this is a repeat, but who cares:confused: its good to see again, just like in the Hustler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSbZaQADc8&NR=1

Oh yeah 2mins 41 seconds is the shot time

I sure do like the big pockets on these old tables with the slow cloth. I'm board with pitty-pat pool on billiard cloth. I wonder how the old school players would play on modern equipment?? I think the champions would still be the champions.

Best

Fatboy
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I looked at it 100 times if not more,it is very hard to see what exactly happens there,what ball did he hit,wow,i never seen anything like that!
 
thanks for sharing this video and I really do agree with you, the slow cloth back then was really good, I remember that this slow cloth kept being used in tournaments up to the 90's, I saw a video of Earl in 1988 playing Kieth on a slow cloth too, and big pockets.

I do agree with you fatboy, champions will still be champions, Making the pockets smaller is not cool for audience who know nothing about pool, if its small for you and opponent, then if its big for you and your opponent, it trumps.

the cloth is the major thing, bring back the GREEN slow cloth please tournaments!! make them green , its much better, love the 90's green clothes.

oh and another thing ive noticed, have you seen the audience in that match? They all in suits with their wives all looking really nice and gentle, a setup which looks like a cinema and everybody is excited and watching, why its different now adays, I really don't know what has gone in the pool world, but you can see the audience back then was more into the game, bring that Setup back, cinema type audience like a pyramid type chairs or whatever it was.
 
That was the shot that made the entire runout possible. I have watched that shot over and over and enjoy the run just as much.
 
Wow, Crane is the man. What a shot! A commentator said it best, "If Mosconi was never born, Irving Crane would be the one who everyone talked about. Great video.
 
That's just beautiful..How do we get the respect for the game back to how things appeared in this video? I wish I or someone had that answer.

Thanks for posting this link as this is the stuff that got me into playing in the first place. I used to love watching the guys from that generation in my local pool hall skillfully hammering out a nice run on the old cloth and reading deep into racks to find that next shot. I also love watching the stroke it used to take to get things to happen on the old slower cloth. Here you see it done correctly and that's just beautiful. Now that's some powerfully played straight pool.
 
I've watched that whole match twice now and it is awesome. Irving Crane was not a young man back then. He was a pretty good player late in his life too.
 
A Great Shot?

IMO, this shot is much more about knowledge than execution. It is, perhaps, a great find in the rack, but a great shot---not so much.
 
fatboy2 said:
perhaps this is a repeat, but who cares:confused: Its good to see again, just like in the hustler:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tosbzaqadc8&nr=1

oh yeah 2mins 41 seconds is the shot time

i sure do like the big pockets on these old tables with the slow cloth. I'm board with pitty-pat pool on billiard cloth. I wonder how the old school players would play on modern equipment?? I think the champions would still be the champions.

Best

fatboy
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i agree 100% lets get the old cloth back into play!
 
Luxury said:
Wow. What a find!
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I dont know how I ever missed this match on YouTube, I saw a link to it from Freddys site, today. I shit when I saw that shot come up, I was wondering if it was on when he was looking at it. It was. I have never made that shot in a game, I dont know how to read the stack well enough. In the video the way he looked at it I could tell he was gonna shoot it, then I thought no way its a sell out (it made me think of the Hustler instantly) and sure enough he drilled it. I have had it set up for me and I have shot it and made it but that dont count. I dont play 14.1 at all.

How I never saw this video is questionable, makes me wonder what else I missed:confused::confused:

I figured that most ppl seen it, but I wasnt sure. I was just watching the match-I had no clue THAT was going to happen. I havent ever seen it in real life that I can recall, If I have I dont remember. I have seen grady shoot some split shots, and even made a few myself. but this IMO is the nutz:grin-square:
 
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It is nice to see it on youtube, I bought this match on VHS along time ago and watched it many times. I loaned the tape to a friend and never saw it again.:( I was six when this game was played but I don't really remember it:p.
 
richiebalto said:
I looked at it 100 times if not more,it is very hard to see what exactly happens there,what ball did he hit,wow,i never seen anything like that!
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Beautiful! I can watch those matches over and over. And they seemed so classy...
 
did you hear the announcer say, more or less, that Crane wasn't that great of a shotmaker because he never makes a hard shot, "because he never has one! he makes it that way"! that's what really makes a great player...position play for nothing but easy shots. if only......
 
OMG that one was right out of a movie! Shows you the knowledge of the rack that these great players had back then. And they played with such dignity and grace. Ah, Straight Pool was a beautiful game back then when played by the masters. It just looks so different today when the young guns are playing. I guess I'm just a nostalgia buff. :o
 
asbani said:
thanks for sharing this video

...I really don't know what has gone in the pool world...
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Why would one go see that, when he can watch it from home on a PC?!

Not that I agree with that being a good decision, but as they say...I got off the couch for this?!
 
jay helfert said:
OMG that one was right out of a movie! Shows you the knowledge of the rack that these great players had back then. And they played with such dignity and grace. Ah, Straight Pool was a beautiful game back then when played by the masters. It just looks so different today when the young guns are playing. I guess I'm just a nostalgia buff. :o
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Thats how I see too, Times have changed. I dont know which is better:confused:.
 
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