Players from NC

jjollie

jjollie

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Just wondering if anyone knew what ever happen to Joe Root. He was a pretty good player from NC and co-owed a pool home in Rocky Mount at one time. Have not heard from him in years.

Also, how about Pete Horn...I played him once and he beat the socks off me.

And my favorite player to watch...Tony Watson....

Just remembering the good old days..
 
NC players

I believe Pete Horn passed away , I'm not 100% but if it's the same guy who can thru Fl back in early 90s but he was a hell of a player .
 
Little tony is out and about(around hickory nc and wilmington nc) not playing as good as he used to but playing again.
 
Pete horn really played good back in the 80s and 90s. I got away from pool and started driving tractor trailer in 96-97. I was in line buying a few things in a truck stop about 1999-2000 and somebody behind me spoke to me,i turned around and it was pete horne.he had became a truck driver too lol. Said he was living in fayetteville nc beside his sisters house and not playing any pool. Have never seen him again. (He told me once that he grew up in the same town as earl s.maybe rosewood or rosemont nc? And that when they were young earl never once beat him. I ,of course,didn,t believe that even though pete ran out like well water. Well i met and played golf several times with earl years later and i asked him about that,and he actually said"i,m not sure of his name,but a left handed fella.yeah i never could beat that guy" lol what do you know,pete wasn,t lying.
 
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jjollie said:
Just wondering if anyone knew what ever happen to Joe Root. He was a pretty good player from NC and co-owed a pool home in Rocky Mount at one time. Have not heard from him in years.

Also, how about Pete Horn...I played him once and he beat the socks off me.

And my favorite player to watch...Tony Watson....

Just remembering the good old days..
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He came thru Tulsa when he was about 17('91-92). Shot straighter than WilliamTell and funnier than hell. He and one of the locals played for about 3days. Tony's break got weak so he used another local guy as his designated-breaker. Tony and his horse lost pretty big that trip. No biggie, they headed off to OkC and Dallas where i believe Tony took off a big score. I saw Tony at Derby in '07 and he was the same freewheelin guy.
 
Just came home from The Brass Tap in Raleigh. There is a tourney going on I think it is the Q City 10 ball event. Anyhow got to see and chat with lots of NC players. Tony Watson, Mike Davis, and B J Ussery were there. Tony toasted an old friend putting a 5 pack on him in the process. BJ looked great. Mike lost the match I watched him play. All in all a fun night of being a rail bird. Ray Martin also stopped by. Good time with some old friends!!
 
jayburger said:
Pete horn really played good back in the 80s and 90s. I got away from pool and started driving tractor trailer in 96-97. I was in line buying a few things in a truck stop about 1999-2000 and somebody behind me spoke to me,i turned around and it was pete horne.he had became a truck driver too lol. Said he was living in fayetteville nc beside his sisters house and not playing any pool. Have never seen him again. (He told me once that he grew up in the same town as earl s.maybe rosewood or rosemont nc? And that when they were young earl never once beat him. I ,of course,didn,t believe that even though pete ran out like well water. Well i met and played golf several times with earl years later and i asked him about that,and he actually said"i,m not sure of his name,but a left handed fella.yeah i never could beat that guy" lol what do you know,pete wasn,t lying.
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Pete horn was a real
Good friend/mentor of mine, I’m from wilkes county North Carolina, and he started coming there when I was 12 or 13 and working with me on the pool table, that man had a unmatched stroke with his open finger bridge, he could make the cue ball change gears while backing up. This was about 26 years ago This man taught me alot
My favorite saying of his
“Dirty pool-good shot” when I would shoot him a safety. He will always be remembered and missed
 
Pete came around my local pool room when I was a kid (maybe 12). He was always nice to me. I remember his long hair and his unique bridge (he would leave his closed bridge partially open).
 
jjollie said:
Just wondering if anyone knew what ever happen to Joe Root. He was a pretty good player from NC and co-owed a pool home in Rocky Mount at one time. Have not heard from him in years.

Also, how about Pete Horn...I played him once and he beat the socks off me.

And my favorite player to watch...Tony Watson....

Just remembering the good old days..
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My Tony Watson story:

I was in Reno in 86 or 87, was Tony’s first trip to Reno he was with Johnny Archer, I was around 20 years old. Tony I’d guess was 17-18 at the time. The Sands didn’t care if your were under age back then.

I had been playing pool for a couple years and was doing ok, I had seen Johnny in Reno the year or tourney before and knew how he played. I figured Tony to play real strong. I was moving up in pool-but I knew I wasn’t anything special. However I had been winning a good bit and decided to take a shot.

So I was down in the tourney room late on maybe the 2nd night we were there. I saw Tony and asked to play, he wasn’t sure what to do-he was green as grass. I wasn’t. He said “Hold on” he went over to someone and they looked at me and decided it was ok for Tony to play me a $50 race to 9. They watched the first few racks to make sure he had the best of it……

Anyways I lost 9-3 as I recall, I’m pretty certain that was the score. He shot my nuts off, I said thanks and they took the $ off the light or where ever we posted it. I realized then that I had no chance of ever making it in pool as a top player. I knew I had way the worst of it. I didn’t know it was gonna be that bad.

I’ve taken other shots like that again over the years. That was probably the first “shot” I took. I didn’t care about the $50. I just wondered how I’d do.

Funny thing fast forward from 86 to 2008 and a kid asked me to play at the Derby same situation. We played $50 sets and I robbed him. Of course I was never near the player Tony was, but I won as easy as Tony beat me. After I asked the kid “why did you play me?”. He said “I just wondered how I’d do?”.

What took Tony a few years or less took me decades and I never could carry his chalk let alone be the player he is/was. But it went full circle in an odd way. The kid knew I was “Fatboy” and wanted a war story of his own.

I’ll never claim to be a great player, but I’ve been lucky to become what ever I have in pool. Having a nickname and a bit of acknowledgment in our world is pretty cool. However I’d prefer to be a better player.

That my story for the night

Maybe Tony will see this. Thx man, respect

Fatboy
 
I remember Tony playing and being stake at 12yrs at CJ Palace. He was beating CJ Wiley, Dick Lane and Coltrain just to name a few in the tournment. It was a bar box tournament and all the Big Boy were there. I remember him winning a match on the BB and immediate going over to the other side of the room playing a $2000 race to 9 with someone from Houston at 12 yrs.old. They said in his twenties he had a running bet against anyone in the country at his home room only at night. Heard Alex and John Schmidt were the only few that beat him.
 
Fatboy said:
My Tony Watson story:

I was in Reno in 86 or 87, was Tony’s first trip to Reno he was with Johnny Archer, I was around 20 years old. Tony I’d guess was 17-18 at the time. The Sands didn’t care if your were under age back then.

I had been playing pool for a couple years and was doing ok, I had seen Johnny in Reno the year or tourney before and knew how he played. I figured Tony to play real strong. I was moving up in pool-but I knew I wasn’t anything special. However I had been winning a good bit and decided to take a shot.

So I was down in the tourney room late on maybe the 2nd night we were there. I saw Tony and asked to play, he wasn’t sure what to do-he was green as grass. I wasn’t. He said “Hold on” he went over to someone and they looked at me and decided it was ok for Tony to play me a $50 race to 9. They watched the first few racks to make sure he had the best of it……

Anyways I lost 9-3 as I recall, I’m pretty certain that was the score. He shot my nuts off, I said thanks and they took the $ off the light or where ever we posted it. I realized then that I had no chance of ever making it in pool as a top player. I knew I had way the worst of it. I didn’t know it was gonna be that bad.

I’ve taken other shots like that again over the years. That was probably the first “shot” I took. I didn’t care about the $50. I just wondered how I’d do.

Funny thing fast forward from 86 to 2008 and a kid asked me to play at the Derby same situation. We played $50 sets and I robbed him. Of course I was never near the player Tony was, but I won as easy as Tony beat me. After I asked the kid “why did you play me?”. He said “I just wondered how I’d do?”.

What took Tony a few years or less took me decades and I never could carry his chalk let alone be the player he is/was. But it went full circle in an odd way. The kid knew I was “Fatboy” and wanted a war story of his own.

I’ll never claim to be a great player, but I’ve been lucky to become what ever I have in pool. Having a nickname and a bit of acknowledgment in our world is pretty cool. However I’d prefer to be a better player.

That my story for the night

Maybe Tony will see this. Thx man, respect

Fatboy
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Watsons tempo (fast) is demoralizing. If he gets in that grove he is almost unbeatable.
 
A long time ago '50's and 60's there was a player that went by the name Max that would winter in N.C.
Mid level player that favored one pocket.
His full name was Howard Maxwell,any old timers remember him?
 
I know this is an old thread but Sam Monday has passed away. He was a wild guy but he had a lot of game and was quite a player. RIP Sam..
 
Quesports said:
I know this is an old thread but Sam Monday has passed away. He was a wild guy but he had a lot of game and was quite a player. RIP Sam..
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Sam Monday Passed Away

From Mary Kenniston's Facebook page, I thought I'd share the sad news about Sam Monday passing away. He was only 50 years old. Sam was from Mount Airy, NC (also the home town of the legendary Wade Crane aka "Billy Johnson". As an athlete playing semi-pro baseball, he injured his shoulder. One...
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