John Schmidt runs 820

[Texas Carom Club]

What are you talking about? Unless I'm remembering wrong, which is quite possible, he was only offering a prize to one person at a time, on occasion here and there, for a relatively short little while, and I haven't heard of him doing that in quite some time.

When all their attempts are added together, there was only a month or two where one person had a chance for a prize. Saying a "big reward has been on the table for years" just seems like a misleading characterization for what was actually a short period of time where a very few hand picked people were given an opportunity to spend from a couple of days to a couple of weeks each to take a shot at a prize and where all their efforts together total to less than a month or two.

So to be fair
you’ve seen it in writing the prize was only for Shaw??

 

[Poolplaya9]

So to be fair
you’ve seen it in writing the prize was only for Shaw??

Go back and read my posts. They are very clear and wouldn't lead to such a silly question.

 

[Johnny Rosato]

My high run and last time I tried I ran 26.
That was probably the 10th game of 14.1 I ever played.
I was about 26 years old. Never played that game again.
I'm 72 now.
Congrats JS.
Hmmm, JS is the initials of Shaw and Schmidt, how ironic!

 

[sixpack]

what the longest drive in golf.? 500 plus as he hit high altitude and tailwind. does that count.

or the guy who hit a cart path, perfectly legal and it went much farther.

or the guy who hits it on a frozen lake a mile.

so for golf there is not a standard so longest drive means nothing.

I hit one longer than 500 yards. Climbed to the top of a 14'er and hit a golf ball off of it. It was 1000 yards away when we lost sight of it. Still going.

Like you said. Means nothing.

 

[Johnny Rosato]

I hit one longer than 500 yards. Climbed to the top of a 14'er and hit a golf ball off of it. It was 1000 yards away when we lost sight of it. Still going.

Like you said. Means nothing.

Pikes Peak?

 

[sixpack]

Pikes Peak?

Mt Princeton. It was a fun day!

 

[iusedtoberich]

So to be fair
you’ve seen it in writing the prize was only for Shaw??

You made it sound like there was a HIGH prize for years and years and years in your initial comment that I called bs. And that prize was open to anyone on the planet. There was never any such thing. The closest was I believe there was a 10k prize at the DCC challenge if anyone broke Mosconi.

The context of what we were talking about was motivation for every pro to dedicate a month to beat Willie's 526 (or Johns/Shaws afterwards). The prize would have to be 100k range for them to do that. That is what Bobby did, which I acknowledged. But his was a very specific prize to a very small group of invited pros to his location. And he only did it a week at a time a few times over the course of a year or so. That was nothing like what you implied.

Now, if Bobby or anyone else posted 500k and said "the first person to beat number xyz, anywhere in the world, on camera and with measured pockets 5" or less, gets the 500k." THEN, you will have every pro in the Phillipines, China, Taiwan, Europe, etc, trying it. The American's won't bother, because they know they can't do it.

 

[Bob Jewett]

... "the first person to beat number xyz, anywhere in the world...

That's not enough digits.

 

[straightline]

600+ is monster. I couldn't go the minimum table time on those buckets.

 

[maha]

you cant compare the old and new. willie played on where he was sent to, and only had a few warm up shots and then did his exhibition.
no do over tries. just played to get to or run 100. which he did on the first or close to it tries.
them most times he just quit.

didnt get to try to make a higher run over and over. and didnt start with a ball in hand break as his game started with a safe break.
only a few times did they ask for him to keep shooting.