Comments:
1. If Joe Ciccone is old enough to grow a beard, what 12 year inside him made him do THAT to his hair?
1B, with that approach, he will appear on a PBA TV show every 3 - 4 years. (Far too complicated to be successful on the PBA tour)
2. WHy didn't Parker pick a ball with just a little more surface? I've never seen him throw the ball that slowly.
3. Couch's scores made a case for the lack of Bowling Integrity, as "prophecized" by the USBC. He hits the pocket twice, maybe 3 times, and outscores Duke who flushed the pocket 9 or 12 time and carried one off pocket hit. Small wonder every teenaged kid tries to throw the ball as fast as he can and with as many revs as he can, doing the "stand left, heave right" thing. Once again, the better performance did not win; the higher score won. Respect for bowling has no chance of ever gaining hold, when luck and not skill prevail. If anyone claimed Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, in golf, or Willie Mosconi, in pocket billiards, ever won by sheer luck, with the same percentage that bowlers win on TV, ....
I remain ... disappointed, but hopeful.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
William Joseph Mosconi (June 27, 1913–September 12, 1993), an American billiards player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is considered by most who knew him to be one of the best players in the history of the game. Between the years of 1941 and 1956, he won the United States states pool championship eighteen times. He pioneered and regularly employed numerous trickshots, set innumerable records, and helped to popularize the game of billiards as a national recreation activity.
During the 40s and 50s, the billiards game most often played in competition was called straight pool, or 14.1 continuous, a form of pocket billiards considered by most top players to be more difficult than today's championship pool game 9-ball. Willie Mosconi once ran 526 balls in a row in an exhibition of straight pool, a record that may never be beaten. He was the technical consultant for the movie The Hustler, in which had a cameo role as a "stakes holder". The movie resulted in a boom in the popularity of pool.
His father owned a pool hall and originally tried to keep him away from the game by taking the pool balls away, but Willie carved his own balls from potatoes and practiced with a broomstick[1]. He was a prodigy as a small child, then disappeared from the game for a while until the age of 19, when he had a good showing in a national event in Minneapolis. Because of this, he was invited to play with the best players in the world, and finished in the upper half.
He was hired by Brunswick which had touring professionals and promoted their products throughout the thirties.
Edited on 11/27/2005 9:01 PM
