Very Rare Harry Sims Interview by Dan Segal ... Toothpick rule/ Pocket Billiards different to 3 Cushion Billiards

[billiardshot]

Very Rare Harry Sims Interview by Dan Segal ... Toothpick rule/ Pocket Billiards different to 3 Cushion Billiards/ Cuemaking, stories, and a lot of different info. Running time 1:12:55 minutes.

Dean H post this in carom billiards thread, but I believe too much info for both pool players and 3C players, why I post in Main Category!!

 

[Poolmanis]

I liked it a lot.
I don't agree all his opinions but he seemed to be smart and ahead of his time about deflection.

 

[Bob Jewett]

... ahead of his time about deflection.

I think he was connecting cue ball deflection primarily to the stiffness of the cue, so that a "pro taper" (nearly constant diameter) had lots of deflection because it was flexible. We now have shafts with both pro taper and low deflection due to reducing the mass up front. The interview was in 1991 which was about six or seven years before the mass thing was understood.

 

[jacob]

Very Rare Harry Sims Interview by Dan Segal ... Toothpick rule/ Pocket Billiards different to 3 Cushion Billiards/ Cuemaking, stories, and a lot of different info. Running time 1:12:55 minutes.

Dean H post this in carom billiards thread, but I believe too much info for both pool players and 3C players, why I post in Main Category!!

Thanks for the interview. I played a few times at his pool room Airport Billiards

 

[justnum]

I think I met Sang Lee's son at Carom Cafe once.

Can't imagine a huge audience watching 3 cushion.

My interest in South America billiards is peaked.

 

[Poolmanis]

I think he was connecting cue ball deflection primarily to the stiffness of the cue, so that a "pro taper" (nearly constant diameter) had lots of deflection because it was flexible. We now have shafts with both pro taper and low deflection due to reducing the mass up front. The interview was in 1991 which was about six or seven years before the mass thing was understood.

Yes. I agree.
But he was still kinda right, even he did not have all understanding we have now. Smaller diameter weight less and if you make pro taper small diameter shaft it comes too whippy for heavier balls. So getting smaller diameter you have to have stiffer shaft and conical taper is way to go then...

 

[Chopdoc]

Post in thread 'Historic Cues. Do you have any?'

Mar 24, 2025

I don't think I posted this here before.

I will add a cue made by HARRY SIMS, USBA NATIONAL CHAMPION

Yes, I chalked and played it, of course.

Legend says Harry ran 11 racks of 9-ball before he became a
serious 3-Cushion player and quit the game of pool, earning 2 National Championships and
1 2nd place as well as earning the title of Grand Master. He said he switched from pool to 3-Cushion because there was no
more challenge left for him in pool.

Sadly, we lost him in 2006. https://forums.azbilliards.com/threads/sad-news-harry-sims-3-cushion-champ.46931/

I had the privilege of...

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