Mosconi playing snooker?

L.S. Dennis

L.S. Dennis

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I was talking to friend today and he has a friend who contends he saw Mosconi playing snooker on some short clip. A quick check on Youtube provided nothing, but if I’m not mistaken someone on this forum has that short clip, I remember seeing it.

Anyone know anything about it?
 
Willie Mosconi opened the Triangle Billiards in Toronto.....a Brunswick Anniversary room.
...this was a bit before my time.
They had no pool tables...he did his show on a 5x10 snooker table.
....but he was in no danger of beating a snooker player.

Cowboy Jimmy Moore could’ve done a show on a 6x12
 
This post from a couple years ago includes a 50 second video of the Rex Williams/Willie Mosconi Exhibition.

Rare AP footage of Willie Mosconi playing snooker

Folks: While searching through the AP (Associated Press) archives for any news articles (as Lou Figueroa mentioned) with interviews of people who witnessed Mosconi's 526 in 1954, I stumbled across this footage. It is not attributed or attached to any particular news article that I can see...
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L.S. Dennis said:
I was talking to friend today and he has a friend who contends he saw Mosconi playing snooker on some short clip. A quick check on Youtube provided nothing, but if I’m not mistaken someone on this forum has that short clip, I remember seeing it.

Anyone know anything about it?
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Mosconi played a cross-country mixed competition challenge match against Rex Williams, a world pro snooker champion, sponsored by Black Velvet Whiskey for $20,000.

Willie won all the 14.1 and seven of the 18 snooker matches. He said it was easier for him to adapt to snooker than for Williams to adapt to 14.1.

Lou Figueroa
 
An old guy who was the table mechanic in the pool hall I worked in as a kid told me Mosconi had passed through a couple of times back in the 40s or 50s and he played pool and snooker.

He claims he saw Mosconi run a 147 on the 10-foot snooker table during an exhibition.
 
Cameron Smith said:
This post from a couple years ago includes a 50 second video of the Rex Williams/Willie Mosconi Exhibition.

Rare AP footage of Willie Mosconi playing snooker

Folks: While searching through the AP (Associated Press) archives for any news articles (as Lou Figueroa mentioned) with interviews of people who witnessed Mosconi's 526 in 1954, I stumbled across this footage. It is not attributed or attached to any particular news article that I can see...
forums.azbilliards.com
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American Snooker
 
HawaiianEye said:
An old guy who was the table mechanic in the pool hall I worked in as a kid told me Mosconi had passed through a couple of times back in the 40s or 50s and he played pool and snooker.

He claims he saw Mosconi run a 147 on the 10-foot snooker table during an exhibition.
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The same people who will believe that by word of mouth because it’s the great mosconi will still argue john doesn’t hold the straight pool record when there is video evidence lol
 
lfigueroa said:
Mosconi played a cross-country mixed competition challenge match against Rex Williams, a world pro snooker champion, ...
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We discussed this 3 years ago. Rex Williams was the "World Professional Billiards Champion" (English Billiards, not snooker) 7 times. He also played snooker at a high level -- he made it to the semifinals in the snooker world championship three times but never won it. In Willie's autobiography he does call Williams "the world's professional snooker champion." So that was a mistake, a misunderstanding, or a bit of exaggeration.

In the event you mentioned, Rex and Willie went to 6 different cities in 17 days, playing 3 games of snooker and one game of 14.1 in each city. At the end of the tour, the score was 6-0 Mosconi in 14.1 and 11-7 Williams in snooker.

Mosconi was about 60 at the time, 20 years older than Williams.

Sources -- Willie's autobiography and Wikipedia
 
trob said:
The same people who will believe that by word of mouth because it’s the great mosconi will still argue john doesn’t hold the straight pool record when there is video evidence lol
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I have never said John didn’t run 626.

I don’t know if he did or not and do not care.

I heard this story before John was born.
 
trob said:
The same people who will believe that by word of mouth because it’s the great mosconi will still argue john doesn’t hold the straight pool record when there is video evidence lol
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We are talking here about Willie Mosconi playing snooker- so why bring in straight pool runs by other people into this discussion? None of us here need to answer that question because we already know the answer. Does it make you feel good to interject negativity into this forum? I guess so- please find some other outlet for your vindictiveness.
 
Cornerman said:
American Snooker
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I was raised on traditional snooker....but I preferred American snooker....faster cloth and knife-edged rubber...
...you could get whitey to do things that didn’t exist on the flat-edged rails and heavy cloth.
....unfortunately, hardly anyone knew American snooker rules, which I preferred also.
 
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