As most everyone knows Mosconi completely dominated 14.1 from about 1941 -1958 when he unofficially retired. What some may not know is that he had an incredible record in long challenge matches. Sometimes they had a long challenge match for the world championship, sometimes twice in one year. These were played over several days or weeks with the player with the most points after 20, 30 or 50 games being the winner. Mosconi was at his best in these matches, he simply had too many big runs too often for his opponents to keep up. He only lost one I believe. He particularly trounced Crane mercilessly in these contests, here are the outcomes:
1943: Ponzi 1250
Mosconi 1050
1944: Mosconi 1250
Ponzi 924
1945: Mosconi 5498
GreenleAF 3738
1946: Mosconi 8727
Caras 7508
1946: Mosconi 3750
Crane 2919
1947: Mosconi 2000
Crane 918
1947: Mosconi 4000
Caras 2334
1948: Mosconi 1300
Ponzi 643
1951: Mosconi 3000
Crane 2323
1954: Mosconi 2400
Procita 989
I would love it if they did this sort of thing today. I'm sure between Hohmann, Ortmann, Pagulayan, Schmidt, Souquet etc it would get pretty exciting.
1943: Ponzi 1250
Mosconi 1050
1944: Mosconi 1250
Ponzi 924
1945: Mosconi 5498
GreenleAF 3738
1946: Mosconi 8727
Caras 7508
1946: Mosconi 3750
Crane 2919
1947: Mosconi 2000
Crane 918
1947: Mosconi 4000
Caras 2334
1948: Mosconi 1300
Ponzi 643
1951: Mosconi 3000
Crane 2323
1954: Mosconi 2400
Procita 989
I would love it if they did this sort of thing today. I'm sure between Hohmann, Ortmann, Pagulayan, Schmidt, Souquet etc it would get pretty exciting.