Grady said:
Here's the photo I promised. I liked Red. What you saw was what you got. He once played the longest one pocket match ever. 3 out of 5 games. Lasted more than 6 hours.
I've known the Preacher since the sixties. I din't know he passed away. He was Quite a character.
Many years ago there was a billiard place in Los Angeles called Tournament Billiards where they held various turnaments including straight pool.
I was playing Philadelphia Joe Veasley and my buddy had a $200 side bet on me with the Preacher. The game was straight pool going to 150.
I remember Joe was at about 140 something and the Preacher was sitting front row center with his feet stretched out in the theater type sitting they had there. I needed maybe eighty or ninety balls when I started my run.
I ran out from there and sometime durning my run the Preacher disappeared.
When the match was over my buddy went looking for the Preacher and went to the front door where Robert "Rags' Woods was collecting the tickets for the event. He asked Rags if he had seen the Preacher. Rags asks why. After explaining to him about the side bet, Rags started laughing.
Rags informed him that Marvin Henderson had just come in an asked him why the Preacher was in the alley standing on a pile of boxes and watching the matches through the window?
My buddy ran out to the alley and confronted the Preacher. In those days the Preacher used to carry a brief case loaded with watches, rings, gold chains and other stuff. He tried to pay off with some of that stuff. I think my friend got half cash and half merchandise.
We became good friends and I liked the guy. I didn't know he passed away. Sorry to hear the news.
