Walter Lindrum

[rackmsuckr]

I came across this blog that details the most dominant sports people of all time, and Walter Lindrum was in it for billiards.

http://life-easier.blogspot.com/2007/01/most-dominant-sports-people.html

 

[ginsu]

He was a billiard player (no pockets) as opposed to a pocket billiard player.

 

[ginsu]

Pool is pocket billiards. "Billiards" is not pool!

 

[Secaucus Fats]

Lindrum's grave monument is the coolest I've ever seen!

 

[ajrack]

Lindrum's game

He played on a 12 foot snooker table, a version of billiards. Only 3 balls on the table .. your cue ball and the other white and a red. You can hit your cue ball into both of the other balls to get points or after you hit one of the other balls ... then you "scratch " your cue ball off into a pocket = another way to score.
There is a video on youtube of Lindrum running 200.

 

[Boro Nut]

He was a billiard player (no pockets) as opposed to a pocket billiard player.

He played English Billiards, not carom.

 

[Scaramouche]

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There is a video on youtube of Lindrum running 200.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZsj4BZ8BWU

 

[The Piper]

Pool is pocket billiards. "Billiards" is not pool!

I thought billiards is the encompasing word for Pool, Snooker, and Carom.

 

[TheOne]

I thought billiards is the encompasing word for Pool, Snooker, and Carom.

I thought it was too, the French use the word "Billiards" for all things pool like I beleive.

Also the EPBF is short for European Pocket Billiards Federation.