Tell Charlie I say hi. I'll never forget when he paid off the International 9-Ball tourney in 1989. He took us in his office and gave everyone stacks of new hundred dollar bills. Brand new U.S. currency, all in numerical order and we were in Tokyo. I was amazed. The bills were so new they all stuck together. I wondered how he got all that new currency from the USA way over there.
Earl won the tourney and got $40,000 in cash. He had too much money to carry it all back to the USA. He gave me and a few other pool players (Rempe, Varner, Sigel etc.) $5,000 each to carry for him. When I got home, I put his money in my bank account. I didn't see Earl again until the BCA Trade Show in the Summer. He had forgotten he had given me the money! TRUE! I handed him a bank check for something like $5,137. Earl had earned interest on his cash and he was floored. He ran around the trade show showing people the check and telling them the story.
If you knew Clem Metz, then you go back a long ways in pool. He's a relic from another era. I heard he is alive and playing poker in Vegas. He would be in his late 70's now. I probably wouldn't recognize him if I saw him. He was a pretty good looking guy with dark wavy hair when he was hanging around Mergards in Cincy.
