jay helfert said:
Jay, you have them almost all right except for the 2nd player. She is not Kajitani. The year was 1993 when I was just a pup! OK, an old pup, since I was the oldest one in the picture!
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Jay, you have them almost all right except for the 2nd player. She is not Kajitani. The year was 1993 when I was just a pup! OK, an old pup, since I was the oldest one in the picture!
Also interesting to note who else was in the competition at the Bicycle Club that year....
This is obviously an old article but it details Bustamante's ascension through the ranks. http://www.easypooltutor.com/bios8.html
In 1992, Bustamante started competing in the rich U.S. Pro-Billiiards Tour. He won his first U.S. tournament in 1993 at the Bicycle Club Casino in Bell Gardens by beating Earl Strickland, America’s foremost player and currently ranked No. 1 in the world, in the finals.
This is obviously an old article but it details Bustamante's ascension through the ranks. http://www.easypooltutor.com/bios8.html
rackmsuckr said:
Talk about having a bad memory. I was the tournament director of that event. That is the year Johnny ran 13 racks off the flip on Bustie for the cash. Francisco didn't bat an eye and flipped the coin for the second set, and won it!
Johnny broke and ran 13 racks in a row, and may have made one Nine on the break. To this day, the most I ever witnessed.
inthezone said:
Johnny ran 13 racks at the Bike against Busti. It was around 1993 or 94. And Busti won the second set. I know they played a few times back then, like every time they saw each other.
Second from the left is Yoko Okumura who finished the highest of the women pictured (7th).rackmsuckr said:
Jay had an unfair advantage since he was TD for that tournament.
Bob Jewett said:
Ding ding ding ding, we have a winner! Good going, Bob! Even though Jay had an unfair advantage, he still got one wrong.
Here is the picture with the caption. Notice Jennifer was not 'Jennifer' yet!
Another rep point given if you can figure out which 2 players are getting their games described play by play. No fair looking it up in your old editions either.
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rackmsuckr said:You're right. I don't think any one of them know who all the others are. And I only know because I have the article.
Btw: Great new avatar
Did you find it somewhere, or build it yourself with PS?
Regards,
Detlev
Detlev Rackow said:Btw: Great new avatar
Did you find it somewhere, or build it yourself with PS?
Regards,
Detlev
I am not good at all with Photoshop (as you can tell by this picture!
); all the cropping, I do in Photosuite III which I just loaded specifically for this job. Previously, I used Printmaster to crop and add funny things like my crown into a picture, lol.I don't remember where I found this picture, but I have thousands of billiards-related pics. I could put a new one up every day and not run out of them in my lifetime!
rackmsuckr said:Ding ding ding ding, we have a winner! Good going, Bob! Even though Jay had an unfair advantage, he still got one wrong.
Here is the picture with the caption. Notice Jennifer was not 'Jennifer' yet!
Another rep point given if you can figure out which 2 players are getting their games described play by play. No fair looking it up in your old editions either.
One correction. This tournament was pre Allison Fisher. I think Loree Jon won this one. It was two years later that we had the women's event at the Bike that was Allison's first win here. She played Loree Jon in the finals that year also.
In case someone wants to bet, I'll take the field against Ms. Jones. Since Jay provided the play-by-play for the finals, I'm surprised he didn't remember.jay helfert said:
Here's a hint about who won: the winner played against C.J. Wiley in a televised finals that was taped in Santa Rosa, CA. That tournament was coincident with the PBT announcing its contract with Camel, which pretty much shut down C.J.'s tour.
Bob Jewett said:
OK OK, you got me again. Bob, I don't write all this stuff down, and the tournaments run together in my mind. That's why I keep all the old issues of P&B and BD. As a reference.
I do kind of remember Vivian winning one out here. So did Allison at the Bike, Loree Jon won the Gordons in Santa Monica and Karen won the one at Hollywood Park. And that's about it, four major women's events in L.A.
Am I missing any? Oh yeah, Peg Ledman won the initial L.A. Open back in 1992.
