USBA Honors its 15 National Champions since 1968

[dogloose]

Just a little update for the few who watch this board. Through various sources including Google I was able to gather pictures of all 15 US National three cushion Champions since 1968. Some of the pictures are really old and came from scanned black & white tournament programs... but they are all represented. Please check it out at:

http://www.usba.net

If anyone has better pictures... please feel free to send them to me (PM to arrange!)

For those who are technical... the slide show requires a ratio of 2.34:1 which we size to 725 X 310 pixels... many old pictures are more square than wide... so we will have to crop and edit any images to fit... but better quality is certainly welcome... we will make it work.

Thanks to those who are still searching their archives!

 

[zensteve]

Very nice Doug!

 

[Fox]

Doug,

Elks lodge, George Aronek, and ross couldn't find any pictures,
Allen Gilbert's photo is available if you want it?

I made couple of phone calls with US national champions and they REFUSE to help the USBA.

Sorry.

 

[dogloose]

Fox wrote:

I made couple of phone calls with US national champions and they REFUSE to help the USBA.

Huh...??? Actually refused? Imagine that!

Oh well... I did what I could for the game... three cushion in the USA is not yet off the "endangered species" list... connecting the past to the present in a small way helps promote a future... at least I hope it does.

 

[zensteve]

That's funny! It would be too cool to see these champions burn the USBA logo in effigy. Ya got to love it!

 

[mr3cushion]

Here are the links to 2 videos from the 1992 Nationals held in Chicago at Chris's Billiards. There are several players from the tournament whom are no longer with us, there are 7 past Champions in the videos, Allen Gilbert, George Ashby, Carlos Hallon, Sang Lee, Frank Torres, Mazin Shooni and Sonny Cho.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWBv83l-tW0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qAMuYTQvKQ&feature=relmfu

Enjoy;
Bill Smith :Mr3Cushion"

 

[zensteve]

Speaking of USBA logos...not...effigies.....

I received from Mazin.

 

[tiger37373]

Funny. I thought it would be interesting to see these pictures, but I don't see them anywhere on the site.. any chance of a link?
Thanks,
Jamie

 

[Fox]

Promiss

Dogloose,

I have a nice photo of one the champions , (sepia color) ,

Pm me your email so I can shoot you the Image.

It took a lot of coordination and time to bring this photo.

 

[dogloose]

PM sent...


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