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God bless George Fels.
God bless George Fels.
R.I.P. George Fels
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Another Legend gone
Rest in Peace George. Thank you for all you have done for pool and condolences to your family. You will be missed.
Rest in Peace George. Thank you for all you have done for pool and condolences to your family. You will be missed.
Rip, sir.
Thanks for applying your life to the game we love. We benefitted greatly from your labor of love.
Thanks for applying your life to the game we love. We benefitted greatly from your labor of love.
RIP George. I will miss your prose.
Terrible, Terrible, Terrible news! What a huge loss to the billiard world. George was our rock that we could depend upon month after month to amuse and entertain us no matter what. He was a wise old soul, always a bit bemused by the happenings of the billiard world. He knew better than to take it all to heart, preferring to gaze upon all us lost souls with compassion and love.
How fortunate we were to have him as our guide. George was a quiet leader, never needing to bring attention to himself. He let his pen speak for him and oh so eloquent it was. All of us who chose to put pen to paper and describe our game followed in his footsteps.
Thank you my friend for your wonderful guidance. I cry a tear for you now and I look forward to our next encounter in the heareafter. I know it will be a better place with you there to guide my way. :crying:
How fortunate we were to have him as our guide. George was a quiet leader, never needing to bring attention to himself. He let his pen speak for him and oh so eloquent it was. All of us who chose to put pen to paper and describe our game followed in his footsteps.
Thank you my friend for your wonderful guidance. I cry a tear for you now and I look forward to our next encounter in the heareafter. I know it will be a better place with you there to guide my way. :crying:
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I've had this book sitting on a table next to my pool table for about 6 months. I've had the book for years, but I took it out recently for review and see it sitting there every day I play. I always chuckle and think about that line from the beginning of the book.
Coming from an engineering background I have this understanding that energy is conserved. Energy might change from one form to another, but it never actually vanishes from the Universe. I've always had this thought that knowledge is also conserved somehow. It doesn't seem right that someone like a George Fels can amass a lifetime of knowledge in a certain discipline, and then when they take their last breath that knowledge just vanishes into nothingness. I guess you could say he has distributed his insight to the world through his writing, and little bits of his knowledge are distributed throughout all of us. I dunno, I suppose there is a religion out there that addresses this.
As usual, Lou, your post was very well said.
Goodbye George.
I played George last June, 2013 in the finals match of our amateur straight pool league to determine who would finish in first place. I was killing him, ahead around 50-16 in a race to about 100. Just then, I couldn't make a ball and he came back with some great shots, including one with the cue ball near a rear corner pocket hitting the stack and making a ball from the stack to the same corner pocket he shot from. ( I saw Irving Crane make the same shot at the beginning of his 150 ball run in the 1966 US Open against Joe Balsis). He ended up beating me 100-90 and even though no one likes to lose, it was ok to lose against someone I had looked up to for 10 years.
I played him twice that season and he would always give advice after a miss or if you asked. Once he told me, "Like Jimmy Reid once said, 'Beware of balls that LOOK like they MIGHT go.'"
I also took lesson from him once, in the early 2000's and after the lesson we just talked. He had been around and had a lot of stories. I would have paid to just sit and listen to him.
I would see him every once and a while at Chris' Billiards. One time, near a run of 100 balls, he missed and burst out loudly, "Dammit!". You could feel his passion for the game.
I didn't know him too well, but I'll miss him.
I played George last June, 2013 in the finals match of our amateur straight pool league to determine who would finish in first place. I was killing him, ahead around 50-16 in a race to about 100. Just then, I couldn't make a ball and he came back with some great shots, including one with the cue ball near a rear corner pocket hitting the stack and making a ball from the stack to the same corner pocket he shot from. ( I saw Irving Crane make the same shot at the beginning of his 150 ball run in the 1966 US Open against Joe Balsis). He ended up beating me 100-90 and even though no one likes to lose, it was ok to lose against someone I had looked up to for 10 years.
I played him twice that season and he would always give advice after a miss or if you asked. Once he told me, "Like Jimmy Reid once said, 'Beware of balls that LOOK like they MIGHT go.'"
I also took lesson from him once, in the early 2000's and after the lesson we just talked. He had been around and had a lot of stories. I would have paid to just sit and listen to him.
I would see him every once and a while at Chris' Billiards. One time, near a run of 100 balls, he missed and burst out loudly, "Dammit!". You could feel his passion for the game.
I didn't know him too well, but I'll miss him.
I never got to meet Mr. Fels, but I certainly knew him through his outstanding body of work...About a year or so ago, I had the privilege of exchanging a few PM's with him... I had casually mentioned in a post, how much I admired, and enjoyed his writing... He took the time to PM me, and let me know how much he appreciated it, and how he liked my story telling too...I felt like a grateful amateur, in such company.
From what everyone is saying about him, that's just the kind of thoughtful person he was to everybody !...RIP Mr. Fels, and condolences to the family.
From what everyone is saying about him, that's just the kind of thoughtful person he was to everybody !...RIP Mr. Fels, and condolences to the family.
Mr. Fels,
May you rest in peace, sir. I don't have the words to describe the impact you've had on my game. You're articles were instructional, entertaining and most of all, personal.
God speed.
-J
May you rest in peace, sir. I don't have the words to describe the impact you've had on my game. You're articles were instructional, entertaining and most of all, personal.
God speed.
-J
In late 1977 I think it was, I read in The National Billiard News that George was writing a book.. I wrote to him care of TNBN asking about the book. He wrote back a hand written letter thanking me for my interest in the book and that when it was published he would send me a copy. Sure enough, in January of 1978 I got the book in the mail, signed and dated by George. I still have the letter in my autograph collection and the book is worn with use. It's been loaned out many, many times. I've had pms and emails back and forth with George over the years and every year for the past couple, I think this is the third, I've made available the 101 Tips to Improve Your Game article. I wish I could have met him in person.