Joe Kerr Passes Away
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I'd like to note that in his victory speech at the World 14.1 championships, Niels Feijen dedicated his victory to Joe Kerr, noting that Joe was his first contact in pro pool in the United States and was the guy who enabled him to bring his pool game here.
Classy on Feijen's part to remember a guy who made a difference in his life as a pro pool player.
Classy on Feijen's part to remember a guy who made a difference in his life as a pro pool player.
All,
Maybe since I have issues with human mortality, and a person's passing has a profound effect on me. I figured I would share a PM from Joe "Joker" Kerr that I had saved from awhile ago. We were discussing some of the great players from the area, and my onepocket mentor Glen Knowles was our topic.
Huck.. In regards to Glen Knowles. Glen and myself traveled the road many, many times. Glen would say, "Joe, its Friday, lets go up to The Rack outside of Detroit and see if we can get into action!" He was with me when I won The Detroit Open in 1983 and I have many road stories about Glen. One of them is after I put on The All-Star 9-Ball Open tournament in Lexington, KY. We stayed in town after the Sunday finish of the tournament and went down to Richmond, KY. Bucky Bell (a great bar table player) who was able to defend himself real well on a big table also. Told me that he had picked up a new game that was being played in the Michigan area where he lived. The game just happened to be one-pocket! Now I had Glen with me, who was a hidden champion at one-pocket and played 2 balls better than me in one-pocket. So, I told Bucky that the old white haired guy with me just loved to play that game, so would you like to play him some? In the meantime while Glen was playing Bucky for $100 a game & later for $200 a game (I was staking Glen). Bucky's backer who was at the Lexington tournament, had no idea that I played pool myself. He figured I was just the tournament director, and since I never hit a ball the whole week, figured he could snap me off. Well to make a long story short..Glen beat Bucky out of $1,600 and I beat Bucky's stake horse out of $1,400 at $100 dollars a game. Get ahold of me in Akron, I am in the phone book... Joker.
R.I.P Glen, and Joe you are missed
Maybe since I have issues with human mortality, and a person's passing has a profound effect on me. I figured I would share a PM from Joe "Joker" Kerr that I had saved from awhile ago. We were discussing some of the great players from the area, and my onepocket mentor Glen Knowles was our topic.
Huck.. In regards to Glen Knowles. Glen and myself traveled the road many, many times. Glen would say, "Joe, its Friday, lets go up to The Rack outside of Detroit and see if we can get into action!" He was with me when I won The Detroit Open in 1983 and I have many road stories about Glen. One of them is after I put on The All-Star 9-Ball Open tournament in Lexington, KY. We stayed in town after the Sunday finish of the tournament and went down to Richmond, KY. Bucky Bell (a great bar table player) who was able to defend himself real well on a big table also. Told me that he had picked up a new game that was being played in the Michigan area where he lived. The game just happened to be one-pocket! Now I had Glen with me, who was a hidden champion at one-pocket and played 2 balls better than me in one-pocket. So, I told Bucky that the old white haired guy with me just loved to play that game, so would you like to play him some? In the meantime while Glen was playing Bucky for $100 a game & later for $200 a game (I was staking Glen). Bucky's backer who was at the Lexington tournament, had no idea that I played pool myself. He figured I was just the tournament director, and since I never hit a ball the whole week, figured he could snap me off. Well to make a long story short..Glen beat Bucky out of $1,600 and I beat Bucky's stake horse out of $1,400 at $100 dollars a game. Get ahold of me in Akron, I am in the phone book... Joker.
R.I.P Glen, and Joe you are missed
Here is a quote from Niels Feijen in his award acceptance speech at 2008 World 14.1 Championship:
"...I want to dedicate this tournament to a friend of mine who passed away about five weeks ago, Joe Kerr. For those of you who might not know him, he was my first contact in the States. Without him I would probably never have the chance to become a pro..."
You can watch the video clip here (go to the second clip):
http://library.cuetable.com/showthread.php?t=2553
"...I want to dedicate this tournament to a friend of mine who passed away about five weeks ago, Joe Kerr. For those of you who might not know him, he was my first contact in the States. Without him I would probably never have the chance to become a pro..."
You can watch the video clip here (go to the second clip):
http://library.cuetable.com/showthread.php?t=2553
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Joe, we miss you.
Joe's passing made me dig out some old photos. It took a few weeks to find the but I am glad I did.
The photo below (picture of a picture) is from Joe Kerr's acceptance of the Honorary lifetime membership to my tour. Back in 1995 it was the Huebler Cues 9-Ball Tour.
It is the only Honorary Membership I have ever given and has a lot of meaning to me.
Picture taken in 1995 at Starcher's Billiards in Akron, OH
Joe's passing made me dig out some old photos. It took a few weeks to find the but I am glad I did.
The photo below (picture of a picture) is from Joe Kerr's acceptance of the Honorary lifetime membership to my tour. Back in 1995 it was the Huebler Cues 9-Ball Tour.
It is the only Honorary Membership I have ever given and has a lot of meaning to me.
Picture taken in 1995 at Starcher's Billiards in Akron, OH
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