Maryland 14.1 Question

[cardiac kid]

Hi Folks,

Did anyone on this forum happen to be watching the match between Steve Lipsky and Dan Heidrich on Sunday morning? I understand there was some question on rules interpretation that resulted in a foul being called under very, very unusual conditions. Thanks for any information.

Lyn

 

[Steve Lipsky]

Hi Folks,

Did anyone on this forum happen to be watching the match between Steve Lipsky and Dan Heidrich on Sunday morning? I understand there was some question on rules interpretation that resulted in a foul being called under very, very unusual conditions. Thanks for any information.

Lyn

Hi Lyn. Wasn't unusual at all, nor a matter of rule interpretation. Here is what I wrote of the situation in my recap on this board:

I played safe, but Dan beat me to the shot. Dan ran to 90 and then, after playing his next shot, he informed me that he moved the 3-ball with his hand. Normally this would not be an issue (this was cueball-fouls only), but Dan drew the cueball right in the general direction of the 3. Dan knew it was probably a foul, as I did, but we called over the refs just to make things official. Things got a bit out of hand when 3 separate refs initially were confused over exactly what happened and got the call wrong. Finally, when I was about to give up, Andy Lincoln stepped in and informed the refs that it was a foul. Dan was so gracious about everything, and I took the position and ran out.


I hope someone on this board knows Dan and relates to him how impressed everyone was with his conduct. I never even saw the 3-ball move; he could easily have just gone on shooting, and he DEFINITELY could have gone on shooting as soon as the refs said no foul. I have only seen that level of sportsmanship a few times in my career, and I didn't get a chance to tell Dan what a stand-up guy he is. Please, if anyone knows him, let him know how much respect I have for him.

Hope this clears things up. At no point did Dan think he was getting the short end of the stick in the final call, as even when three separate refs made their initial call of no-foul, he was still hemming and hawing like he didn't think he deserved to go back to the table.

- Steve