As a sidenote - where did the term Tush come from? (seems contradictory)
Feel free to state stories in the anonymous form.
Feel free to state stories in the anonymous form.
Tush Hog Stories?
- Thread starter KoolKat9Lives
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I remember some good info on this thread.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=257414&highlight=tush
Akron Ohio's very own Tush Hog "Crazy Butchie" was affilited with Hugo Martinson a notorious pool go off and underworld figure (Hugo was convicted of 70 federal counts in the early 90's upon his conviction the began to inventory his property among things found was 2 million in gold in a storage facility and 8 million in jewels in a buried vault) Butchie was known to hang out at Starcher's pool room and get involved in the action he would intimadate his horse's opponent telling him how he would remove certain body parts if he made certain shots. After fearing Butchie for a few years someone finally called the Akron PD to remove him and Crazy Butchie living up to his name used a line from a movie to the police officer that actually made the crowd laugh in the parking lot. He told the officer who was reaching in his car for something "whatever you are reaching for better be a sandwich because im going to make you eat it"
Butchie two confirmed murders including throwing a guy off a bridge for cutting him off in traffic
Im sure he met a violent end at the hands of a violent individual
Butchie two confirmed murders including throwing a guy off a bridge for cutting him off in traffic
Im sure he met a violent end at the hands of a violent individual
You will have to wait until my new book comes out, The Encyclopedia of Pool Hustlers. I address where the term tush-hog probably came from and populate the book with many stories of the great pool tush-hogs of yesteryear, like Hubert Cokes, Sugar Shack Johnny, Brooklyn Butch, Big Henry Baker, and so forth. See you when I get it done.
Beard
Ah, hell with it, I'll give up a little tush-hog teaser story:
"As much as I was inexorably drawn to horrible "heat" spots with Sugar Shack Johnny Novak, after hearing the stories of the Cotton Palace Bowl from our other road partner, Three-fingered Ronnie Sypher, I made sure Dallas, TX was never included in our travel repertoire. Ronnie had hung out at one time with Titanic Thompson’s son and lived in their house in Dallas. Ronnie told me about all the lunatic, Charlie Boyd, and the tush-hog and stick-up stories. If Charlie would have ran his act on Sugar Shack, there would have been an immediate killing, us or him. Sugar Shack was one of those rare people who would not allow himself to get stuck up, or even intimidated by guns. You had to kill him because he wasn’t going to back down."
Beard
Ah, hell with it, I'll give up a little tush-hog teaser story:
"As much as I was inexorably drawn to horrible "heat" spots with Sugar Shack Johnny Novak, after hearing the stories of the Cotton Palace Bowl from our other road partner, Three-fingered Ronnie Sypher, I made sure Dallas, TX was never included in our travel repertoire. Ronnie had hung out at one time with Titanic Thompson’s son and lived in their house in Dallas. Ronnie told me about all the lunatic, Charlie Boyd, and the tush-hog and stick-up stories. If Charlie would have ran his act on Sugar Shack, there would have been an immediate killing, us or him. Sugar Shack was one of those rare people who would not allow himself to get stuck up, or even intimidated by guns. You had to kill him because he wasn’t going to back down."
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