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part 2 of 2, crane 150 and out over Balsis:
When you keep just bumping the rack and sliding off of it making safes as JB and IC were doing, eventually you move balls around and a shot opens up. Crane saw a very complex shot in the rack and it was wired tight. It was the same exact great mystery out of the rack shot Gleason shot in the Hustler movie. Crane walks up and coolly calls 2 in the corner out of the rack, everyone in the crowd scratches their head, and nobody can see any shot. The score now is JB 11 to IC ZIP. Bang, Irving goes into the stack and the 2 ball comes back at him out of the stack and pots and the joint goes wild. The rack opened beautifully and the great run began. Rack after rack falls to his perfect stroke and mechanics. He is in a nice flow and playing like in his prime in the 30's.
After that great shot was shown in the 6l movie, and then Crane makes the same shot on national TV, that shot became a standard show shot of the entire great trick shot shooters of that era. I finally convinced Gerni to drop that one from his show when we were on the road in the mid 90’s saying Paul, the kids watching your show have not see the Hustler movie, they have never played straight pool, they don’t have a clue what you are doing. They don’t react to the shot because they do not understand the shot. You had to be a real straight pool player to see it, to understand how and why it worked. It was tough for Paul to realize and accept, we are getting older and the game has changed. It’s a 4 or 5 ball combo where you shoot forward and the ball comes out backwards out of the rack and pots.
Crane breaks the rack at 140, l hr and 2 minutes into the run and then pots the lst ball, easy shot and goes brain dead and just lets whitey take off. The cue ball runs up to the side pocket and stops on the edge. Crane slams down his cue and grabs his hair in despair when he see's what he just did, blew the 150 and out and the damn cue ball is diving into the side pocket. How in the world could I have done anything that stupid he is berating him self mentally.
The God of pool blows a soft breeze to stop the ball that is supposed to scratch giving Irving a new life. He see's it stop and stares there frozen in fear and it stops and hangs in the pocket. So many big runs end because of a player loses their concentration as he just did and then miss a simple shot or he does something dumb like scratch. Sigel told me the only reason nobody ever ran a thousand is nobody can hold this intense concentration more than a hour, rarely more than two. Eventually your mind just cracks, it flips a circuit breaker before you blow the main fuse and melt down the main cables. When it feels you are about to overload the circuits, the mind simply shuts you down, turns everything off. You can see players who have been hit with this just stand there and stare, they can’t move or react, they are frozen in their tracks because there is nothing going on mentally, everything is now turned off, they have zero input.
Mosconi tried to beat cranes high run of 309 and when Willie got on 309 he went blind and choked on 310. In Willies defense he later recovered from that disaster and set the high run of 365 that was never topped on the 5x10' table. There have been a lot of good players that ran 148 or149 and choked and blew the out and lost. You can play perfect and get to that place and become paralyzed, unable to think or perform, I know, I’ve been there, done that, and most of you have as well. The opponent comes up runs 75, plays safe, you have no shot, then he runs 75 and out on you. You want to go out into the parking lot and shoot your self in the head with your rod. Not in the foot, between the eyes. You don’t feel like you should be able to live after that. It can and does gut a player where he’s never any good after that or it can take a year to recover from such a disaster.
Irving was very aware of what he had done. The meat man was very capable of putting a 138 and out back on him. Irving drinks water, and then realizes he has left him self a very tough and miss able cut. He makes it, and then realizes he did escape. The shot is 142-11, he drinks water, begins to sweat, pulls out his hankie and begins to mop his brow, the guy I am telling you almost fainted over the scratch, it was funny to watch. He had a cow. He damn near fell over in fear.
He quickly composed himself at once and went to work putting this puppy away fast. At 147 he wades into the final stack, the crowd reacts and claps seeing he is out now for sure, IC see's the same thing. 149 falls, the crowd really reacts, 150, game, the crowd explodes and leaps to their feet with a standing room ovation. 150 and out, one hour, 4:4l minutes, final score, Irving Crane 150, Joe Balsis, 11. The players in that era always played in a sport coat, the audience always showed up in their Sunday best suit and ties.
Do acquire this tape and walk back down memory lane 38 years ago. Cranes greatest matches and runs were never recorded on film. If you want to see what this great champion looked like and how he played, you must acquire this tape.
Any body who can't find a source to acquire this tape at, send me a check for $20 to P.O. BOX 956130, Duluth, Ga, 30095 and I will dub you the match and add on the Sigel 150 and out on the end of it as well, the two greatest straight pool runs of all time that were caught on tape. If this order is out of the US, add the air postage needed to your order to air mail it to you in the check, or go to my web site www.fastlarrypool and pay for it via pay pal which takes any credit card and email me a note telling me about your order at fastlarry@bellsouth.net.
Leaning to play straight pool just makes you a better 8 ball player. You then learn how to wade into clusters and move around a bad table so you can get out.
part 2 of 2, crane 150 and out over Balsis:
When you keep just bumping the rack and sliding off of it making safes as JB and IC were doing, eventually you move balls around and a shot opens up. Crane saw a very complex shot in the rack and it was wired tight. It was the same exact great mystery out of the rack shot Gleason shot in the Hustler movie. Crane walks up and coolly calls 2 in the corner out of the rack, everyone in the crowd scratches their head, and nobody can see any shot. The score now is JB 11 to IC ZIP. Bang, Irving goes into the stack and the 2 ball comes back at him out of the stack and pots and the joint goes wild. The rack opened beautifully and the great run began. Rack after rack falls to his perfect stroke and mechanics. He is in a nice flow and playing like in his prime in the 30's.
After that great shot was shown in the 6l movie, and then Crane makes the same shot on national TV, that shot became a standard show shot of the entire great trick shot shooters of that era. I finally convinced Gerni to drop that one from his show when we were on the road in the mid 90’s saying Paul, the kids watching your show have not see the Hustler movie, they have never played straight pool, they don’t have a clue what you are doing. They don’t react to the shot because they do not understand the shot. You had to be a real straight pool player to see it, to understand how and why it worked. It was tough for Paul to realize and accept, we are getting older and the game has changed. It’s a 4 or 5 ball combo where you shoot forward and the ball comes out backwards out of the rack and pots.
Crane breaks the rack at 140, l hr and 2 minutes into the run and then pots the lst ball, easy shot and goes brain dead and just lets whitey take off. The cue ball runs up to the side pocket and stops on the edge. Crane slams down his cue and grabs his hair in despair when he see's what he just did, blew the 150 and out and the damn cue ball is diving into the side pocket. How in the world could I have done anything that stupid he is berating him self mentally.
The God of pool blows a soft breeze to stop the ball that is supposed to scratch giving Irving a new life. He see's it stop and stares there frozen in fear and it stops and hangs in the pocket. So many big runs end because of a player loses their concentration as he just did and then miss a simple shot or he does something dumb like scratch. Sigel told me the only reason nobody ever ran a thousand is nobody can hold this intense concentration more than a hour, rarely more than two. Eventually your mind just cracks, it flips a circuit breaker before you blow the main fuse and melt down the main cables. When it feels you are about to overload the circuits, the mind simply shuts you down, turns everything off. You can see players who have been hit with this just stand there and stare, they can’t move or react, they are frozen in their tracks because there is nothing going on mentally, everything is now turned off, they have zero input.
Mosconi tried to beat cranes high run of 309 and when Willie got on 309 he went blind and choked on 310. In Willies defense he later recovered from that disaster and set the high run of 365 that was never topped on the 5x10' table. There have been a lot of good players that ran 148 or149 and choked and blew the out and lost. You can play perfect and get to that place and become paralyzed, unable to think or perform, I know, I’ve been there, done that, and most of you have as well. The opponent comes up runs 75, plays safe, you have no shot, then he runs 75 and out on you. You want to go out into the parking lot and shoot your self in the head with your rod. Not in the foot, between the eyes. You don’t feel like you should be able to live after that. It can and does gut a player where he’s never any good after that or it can take a year to recover from such a disaster.
Irving was very aware of what he had done. The meat man was very capable of putting a 138 and out back on him. Irving drinks water, and then realizes he has left him self a very tough and miss able cut. He makes it, and then realizes he did escape. The shot is 142-11, he drinks water, begins to sweat, pulls out his hankie and begins to mop his brow, the guy I am telling you almost fainted over the scratch, it was funny to watch. He had a cow. He damn near fell over in fear.
He quickly composed himself at once and went to work putting this puppy away fast. At 147 he wades into the final stack, the crowd reacts and claps seeing he is out now for sure, IC see's the same thing. 149 falls, the crowd really reacts, 150, game, the crowd explodes and leaps to their feet with a standing room ovation. 150 and out, one hour, 4:4l minutes, final score, Irving Crane 150, Joe Balsis, 11. The players in that era always played in a sport coat, the audience always showed up in their Sunday best suit and ties.
Do acquire this tape and walk back down memory lane 38 years ago. Cranes greatest matches and runs were never recorded on film. If you want to see what this great champion looked like and how he played, you must acquire this tape.
Any body who can't find a source to acquire this tape at, send me a check for $20 to P.O. BOX 956130, Duluth, Ga, 30095 and I will dub you the match and add on the Sigel 150 and out on the end of it as well, the two greatest straight pool runs of all time that were caught on tape. If this order is out of the US, add the air postage needed to your order to air mail it to you in the check, or go to my web site www.fastlarrypool and pay for it via pay pal which takes any credit card and email me a note telling me about your order at fastlarry@bellsouth.net.
Leaning to play straight pool just makes you a better 8 ball player. You then learn how to wade into clusters and move around a bad table so you can get out.
