Name that player
- Thread starter dmgwalsh
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I don't know the player and I noticed he using a pool cue. But the bearded guy seated,could be Sayginer twin.
Checkout these photos from Sayginer website:
http://www.semihsayginer.org/photoalbum/page/ilginc/41.htm
http://www.semihsayginer.org/photoalbum/page/ilginc/38.htm
Checkout these photos from Sayginer website:
http://www.semihsayginer.org/photoalbum/page/ilginc/41.htm
http://www.semihsayginer.org/photoalbum/page/ilginc/38.htm
Date
Late 70s or early 80s.
The morning the tournament was to officially begin we received notice that one of our IBC's top contenders, Mr. Anthony (Tony) Amendola was injured in a car accident and could not compete in the weekends event, which resulted in Mr. Gonzalez playing in our event.
1: As an American Billiard Association's (ABA) nationally sanctioned event, 12 contenders were a minimum requirement for its sanctioning. Therefore, with Tony's last minute absence we required a substitute to satisfy the ABA's ruling.
2: As luck would have it a friend of IBC member Mr. Louie Campos, (Mr. Ampilio Gonzalez) was up from Guadalajara Mexico hosting a series of carom exhibitions in and around Chicago. Without a moments hesitation Ampilio volunteered to take the 12th position and satisfy the ABA's contender requirements and, only minutes before the tournament was to begin.
During competition and when playing on one of our IBC's four traditional "unheated" billiard tables, Ampilio scored 22 consecutive points in a twenty-five point game of three-cushion billiards. A consecutive run that during competition, set a record for the highest run of its kind in American history. The first, and then highest run in an exhibition match was more than 60 years earlier when in 1919 the great billiard behemoth himself, a young Willie Hoppe, scored 25 consecutive points against billiards legendary, "Show me a shot I can't make," Charlie Peterson.
Good Health, and Better Billiards to All,
Jim and Bonnie Parker
Illinois Billiard Club
JimS said:
Late 70s or early 80s.
The morning the tournament was to officially begin we received notice that one of our IBC's top contenders, Mr. Anthony (Tony) Amendola was injured in a car accident and could not compete in the weekends event, which resulted in Mr. Gonzalez playing in our event.
1: As an American Billiard Association's (ABA) nationally sanctioned event, 12 contenders were a minimum requirement for its sanctioning. Therefore, with Tony's last minute absence we required a substitute to satisfy the ABA's ruling.
2: As luck would have it a friend of IBC member Mr. Louie Campos, (Mr. Ampilio Gonzalez) was up from Guadalajara Mexico hosting a series of carom exhibitions in and around Chicago. Without a moments hesitation Ampilio volunteered to take the 12th position and satisfy the ABA's contender requirements and, only minutes before the tournament was to begin.
During competition and when playing on one of our IBC's four traditional "unheated" billiard tables, Ampilio scored 22 consecutive points in a twenty-five point game of three-cushion billiards. A consecutive run that during competition, set a record for the highest run of its kind in American history. The first, and then highest run in an exhibition match was more than 60 years earlier when in 1919 the great billiard behemoth himself, a young Willie Hoppe, scored 25 consecutive points against billiards legendary, "Show me a shot I can't make," Charlie Peterson.
Good Health, and Better Billiards to All,
Jim and Bonnie Parker
Illinois Billiard Club
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