I know Danny, used to bet some good money, and yeah, you don't want to play golf with him.Anybody ever heard of Danny Green from Jackson, Tn.? He's a better golfer than he is pool player, but he'll take your money at either.
I know Danny, used to bet some good money, and yeah, you don't want to play golf with him.Anybody ever heard of Danny Green from Jackson, Tn.? He's a better golfer than he is pool player, but he'll take your money at either.
I know Danny, used to bet some good money, and yeah, you don't want to play golf with him.
I've heard stories about a couple guys that travel together. I'm pretty sure they could beat Shane every now and then, or at least one could.
They got into a bit of trouble recently beating some guy out of big money.
Don't know their real names, but they go by Arizona and New York for nicknames.
Maybe you guys have heard about them. :grin:
Also, I think this Carl guy was and still is a hell of a player. Not sure if he's still going on the road but he could play... *when he wants to*. Don't know his last name but he had better luck than anyone I've ever encountered.
I was just thinking about Tommy Golly, Googled him and turned up this thread. Tommy and I used to shoot pool up at the Boy's Club on 6th Street in Allentown. I was around 13, he was maybe a year younger, so that would be around 1973. When we got a bit older, I used to run into him down at the Jordan Lanes. Someone at the Superexpo in 2013 said Tommy was playing cards now. I remember watching Tommy shoot petersen pool once at the BC, he ran several hundred balls without missing. He was around 15 at the time. I heard that he went on to win some kind of college pool championship.
I was at The Brass Tap in Raleigh NC in the late 80's for a big 9 ball tournament held each yr. the week before the US open. Most of the best players in the world were in this tournament . Earl Kellum walks in late on Friday night & the pa announcer hollered out Earl Kellum is in the house, there is going to be bar table action here tonight. I noticed several pro players matched up gambling on the 9 ft. tables. No one wanted to play Earl Kellum on the bar box.Earl Kellum, Walter Glass, Johnny Marrow, Gary Seay, Billy Weir, Erumand Bullard, "The Big Mex " Fat Ralph, Country Calvin, all those guy's could "Gin it", some still do!
David Harcrow
He did win, 1982.
http://www.acui.org/content.aspx?menu_id=14&id=13181
There are also more than a few AZB folks on that there list.
Tom golly came through our dc suburb pool room and put a bit of a heist down, I hear. I wasn't around yet, but they talked about it still, years later. They were more in awe of Gary Nolan though, I think Arlington is still afraid of getting its bush whacked.
Last I heard about Tom, he was working in a casino in Atlantic city. I got no real info though.
his name was Ray Martin Us Open Champion
Never forget that
Tommy Sanders name comes to mind. NOt totally unknown but not
very well known for sure.
In todays world many players have no idea who Mark Tadd is/was or
Greg/Craig Stevens.
Only played Don once, in NE on ,9' GC's his wife was there, and he or I had to play Medina for the Hill. Wonderful man to play match play with. He and I talked later and he was talking about the opening of a new pool room. He did take pictures while there he mentioned, to put in his new room. We were playing at Madsens in Lincoln, had to be around 90-91.
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Don McCoughy from Des Moines Ia,mid 70's world 9ballto champ-look it up-he owned several pool halls in the DesMoines area amd tough Scott Frost the game of onepocket-how strong is that
Don McCaughy (I think is the correct spelling) often was listed as Don McCoy, but I've seen it spelled a half dozen different ways. Don although not the first name that pops up when great pool players of the late 60's or 70's & 80's are mentioned was well known with the gamblers.
Best story I have of Don is the time he was at a fairly large tournament, with all the top players of the day, and couldn't find a game for a couple grand with anybody. Grady Mathews jumps up and says something like this "I can't believe this man is looking for a game for a couple grand in a room full of champions and nobody will play him. come on Don I'll play ya some 9-ball for five hundred to give you some action."
Grady wouldn't play him one-pocket and got slaughtered playing nine-ball. Seems to me this was in the mid 70's in Rockford, but with fading mind and memories I could be off by a decade or 300 miles either way
PS
Whenever I saw Don, "Roadman" Paul Baker was not to far behind.
To help clarify it is Don McCaughey for the spelling . Don was one of the best in Des Moines many years ago. Paul Baker aka Highway Paul is still around. I occasionally see him out at Prairie Meadows and he comes up to Big Dogs I believe on occasion. He used to play cards with my grandpa many years ago. We got to talking about and he told me a couple of stories. Both Don and Paul are great ambassadors of the game.
Eugene Browning. Period. Whatever happened to that guy?