mosconi or greenleaf?

Winne2tough said:
Read a book called the Lions and The Lambs. They state Don willis beat mosconi when he was doing exhibitions for brunswick. Don willis seems intriguing, dont know to muck about him. Mosconi states in his autobiography that he would sometimes allow players to run the balls because he figured they would miss. Guess he would break open the stack and he didnt know what hit him when willis was shootin. Thought i would bring this match up. Did anybody ever know alot about don willis? Heard he was the unknown lion who went on the road with the likes of luther lassiter.
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I know people who knew him. Just as good as the book says, if not better.
 
Mosconi or Greenleaf

I once asked Onofrio Lauri who had played both Mosconi and Greenleaf, who was the best of the two. He thought for a minute and replied, it depends. In a single game I would pick Greenleaf but over a series of games it would be Mosconi because he was so consistent.
 
ehammarstrom said:
I once asked Onofrio Lauri who had played both Mosconi and Greenleaf, who was the best of the two. He thought for a minute and replied, it depends. In a single game I would pick Greenleaf but over a series of games it would be Mosconi because he was so consistent.
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Wow. Great testimony on this issue. Rep!
 
Mosconi or Greenleaf

I once asked Onofrio Lauri who played both Mosconi and Greenleaf which one was the best. It depends he replied,in a single game he would pick Greenleaf but over a series of games his choice would be Mosconi because he was so consistent.

Erl
 
ehammarstrom said:
I once asked Onofrio Lauri who played both Mosconi and Greenleaf which one was the best. It depends he replied,in a single game he would pick Greenleaf but over a series of games his choice would be Mosconi because he was so consistent.

Erl
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You posted it twice. Whoops. "Rep" meant I was giving you "good reputation" for advancing this discussion with new info. It didn't mean "repeat". Your reputation is shown by the green boxes below your screen name on the left side. Green means people have given you good reputation. The little box with the blue bar beneath a post is used to give rep to a poster.
 
Thanks

ehammarstrom said:
I once asked Onofrio Lauri who played both Mosconi and Greenleaf which one was the best. It depends he replied,in a single game he would pick Greenleaf but over a series of games his choice would be Mosconi because he was so consistent.

Erl
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Mosconi was my idol since I was a teenager, thanks for the information.
I saw Willie in San Diego at the Billiard Tavern (12th and Broadway). It was hard to imagine Greenleaf having a 'prettier' game than Willie. Willie played pinpoint shape, and the balls all rolled into the center of the pockets (4 1/2 x 9).
 
rocketship said:
Mosconi got the record on a 4x8 table, not a 5x10.
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Mosconi also has the record on a 5 x 10 table. He tied Irving Crane's 5 x 10 record of 309 balls sometime in the 1940's but I'm pretty sure he later beat it and ran 353 balls on a 5 x 10.
 
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