Morgan Earp Shot Down in a Tombstone Pool Hall and Other Interesting Billiard Facts
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Thanks for the post!
Weird, that story seems to eminate from Davenport, Iowa...part of the Quad Cities where I live. I've never heard of it. But then again, there is mention of Arizona?! Does the examiner use local ISP info to focus the presentation to local communities?
Weird, that story seems to eminate from Davenport, Iowa...part of the Quad Cities where I live. I've never heard of it. But then again, there is mention of Arizona?! Does the examiner use local ISP info to focus the presentation to local communities?
I beleive that the underlying page will point you to YOUR local area, and the overlying story (which is mine - Phoenix Billiards Examiner) will be forefront.
That way, if you leave the story it will take you to the city in your local area.
The Examiner has a national reporting section, but their primary objective is to focus on local news and topics... the area that newspapers seem to be first firing with their budget crunches.
Argonath
I don't know about the rest of the information there, but this is false.
5. In the year 1586, the castle of Mary, the Queen of Scots, was invaded and captured. The invaders left a note forbidding her to use her billiard table. They then proceeded to kill her, and used the cover of the table to cover her body.
Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned for 19 by her second cousin queen Elizabeth I who was paranoid that Mary would somehow overthrow her. Mary was ceremonially beheaded on orders from the Queen in the castle where she was imprisoned.
5. In the year 1586, the castle of Mary, the Queen of Scots, was invaded and captured. The invaders left a note forbidding her to use her billiard table. They then proceeded to kill her, and used the cover of the table to cover her body.
Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned for 19 by her second cousin queen Elizabeth I who was paranoid that Mary would somehow overthrow her. Mary was ceremonially beheaded on orders from the Queen in the castle where she was imprisoned.
Thanks. Will check into it.
Ahhh.... that indeed has been an error passed along in the factoids.
"In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, complains of being deprived of her billiard table while imprisoned at Fotheringay Castle. After her execution, her lady-in-waiting reports that Mary's headless body was wrapped in the cloth from the table. "
It wasnt invaders who killed her, but upon her execution by the Queen, she was wrapped in the billiard table cloth.
Will update that little portion. Thanks!
Argonath
More Earp Trivia
First, it appears that most of the "facts" were taken from here:
http://www.bca-pool.com/play/funfacts.shtml
As for the Earps, guess where Wyatt was born.
Monmouth, IL.
The birthplace of Ralph Greenleaf.
And the birthplace of Earl Newby, the founder of the National Billiard News.
I wonder if Harvey Hendrickson really made money touring the country and picking up 15 balls in one hand.
There are several ways to do it. I know Mike Massey has one.
Junior Norris of Wichita Falls, TX could pick up and hold all 15 in one hand.
Ed
First, it appears that most of the "facts" were taken from here:
http://www.bca-pool.com/play/funfacts.shtml
As for the Earps, guess where Wyatt was born.
Monmouth, IL.
The birthplace of Ralph Greenleaf.
And the birthplace of Earl Newby, the founder of the National Billiard News.
I wonder if Harvey Hendrickson really made money touring the country and picking up 15 balls in one hand.
There are several ways to do it. I know Mike Massey has one.
Junior Norris of Wichita Falls, TX could pick up and hold all 15 in one hand.
Ed
Me thinks that if they ever want someone to portray her in a movie or TV, they need to call Viffer & put him in a dress. WOWOWOW, she looks so much like Dippy!
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Probably there is an origination from the where the facts were capsulated.
I cited the webpage I received them from in my article, who many have gotten them from bca-pool.com. Some are even recognized in Byrnes books.
Argonath
Tried to rep ya but the mods advised against.
Does anybody REALLY know Morgan's last name?
My theory is that he drank to exess....when trying to introduce himself
he was prone to say"Morgan ...ahh...earp...belch
