Weldon Rogers Stories....Would love to hear em!!!

KJ Cues said:
I was doing the cue repair at one of Billy Lewis's 9Ball, Bar Table Classics when he was still on Getz Rd. in Fort Wayne. I believe it was `94-`95 or somewhere around there.
Weldon asked me to put a new LePro tip on his shaft. I proceeded to do as he asked and for whatever reason (IIRC, he had an ivory ferrule on the shaft), I decided to leave about 1/64" of the old tip on because I didn't want to get into the ferrule. I had done it 100 times before and saw no problem with it.
I finished the tip, polished the ferrule and gave it back to him.
He appeared to be pleased with the work until I told him about leaving the 1/64" of the old tip in place.
That's when he started to get a little upset. He tells me, "get ALL of that old tip off of there and put a new tip on. That 1/64" remaining tip will act just like a pad under the tip and squirt the QB all over the table."
I promptly did as he asked.

It was at this same tourney that Weldon had brought in a guy from Ky/Tn area for the event. He didn't let the guy play in the Friday night minis before the tourney and kept him in the motel room until Saturday, just before the Calcutta. Well, the guy was a total unknown and no one had seen him play.
He went for $5 in the Calcutta and went on to win the tourney, playing with a Meucci sneaky. First place was a little over $4,000.
Let me tell you, the room was stacked with talent as Billy's Classics brought out every road-player east of the Mississippi to play in them because of the huge pay-outs. Total Calcutta purse was well over $16,000.
One other memory from the event that I have is Brian Gross over in the corner flipping quarters for $500 a flip. I asked Mac Ashbey (the tournament director) how they could do this so casually. Mac replied, "Easy come, easy go. They don't care about the money. They live for the action."
Oh yeah, the guy that won the tourney; his name was Bill McCann.
The following year, one of my APA teams went to Vegas and I saw Bill again.
He was on the Pro~Tour (still playing with his Meucci sneaky).
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I remember that tournament, and I don't remember Bill going for $5, I can't remember anyone going for $5 especially if you are unknown.
I'll look at the sheet the next time I'm out there and see if I can remember who all played in it. Oaks, York, Jarvis, Jones, Groce, Morton were the few I know played.
 
cubswin said:
Can remember watching him practice before a tournament, one handed, jacked up, and running rack after rack. That would have been about '89 or '90 I'd guess.
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Was he gambling, he rarely practiced especially if any stakes or bettors were around.
 
cubswin said:
The tournament I remember watching him practice was down at Conleys. Know you played in it, think Jarvis was there as well. Seems like you might of gotten in the money that day, been a long time ago and my memory fades.
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Paul and Danny played in that one too.
 
SJDinPHX said:
I have nothing bad to say about Jr. (Weldon) We co-existed for many years in Arizona, often in together.

His best game was on a bar rag, and he played very solid one-handed. I was a big table player,(who couldn't make a ball one-handed)... so we rarely tangled....Jr. was a very smart hustler. I give him credit for that.

The only time we ever really got down, for big $$$...was when we ran into each other in OKcity Okla. We matched up on a 4X8 playing 9 ball, as Weldon could never even spell one pocket.

I was getting pretty much the best of it, when the bottom dropped out. I realized later, I had been "jarred." I had double vision, and was way beyond "relaxed"...my friends wanted me to go to the ER.

I won't say it was Weldon who got to me, but it was certainly someone who was in with him. Weldon was a "take no prisoner's, win at all costs" type of hustler, and I'm sure he was all for it. (jarring)

I blame myself, because I very well knew his common method of doing things. I let my guard down, and got what I deserved.

I hold no animosity towards him, but if we ever play again in this lifetime, I will be on my best behavior, My buddy (or I) got distracted...it WON'T happen again.

I hear all he plays now, is cards. I wish him only the best...always liked the kid.

SJD
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I asked Weldon about this story and he didn't know who you are. What is your name? Mine is Chuck Bradley, I guess only fair lol.
 
livemusic said:
What does 'jarred' mean? What does 'jacked' mean? In the context of this thread.
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Jacked up means shooting one handed and the stick not touching the table. One handed using the rail to slide on is different and also easier. Jarred is when someone outs something in your drink that makes you play bad. I have played so bad before I thought I was jarred but it was just me lol
 
sjd is dead. he was san jose dick. dick mcmoran spelled something like that. weldon would know him for sure.
 
I was fortunate that Ronnie clued me into Weldon ahead of time. They were pretty chummy in cutting up suckers. :oops:

How I missed Alfie I don't know. I think he knew me better than I knew him. All I can think of is that it would have knocked his action to beat me for a small score in my home room, The Billiard Den. There were a lot of guys with much deeper pockets than mine, a thousand dollar score was not unusual in there, and that was in the late 60's and early 70's. Big money back then.
 
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