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...Cliffe crew consisted of Charlotte Crane at stroke, Martha McDaniel at seven, Dotty Horn at six, Julie Meck at five, Sarah Wood at four, Debbie weil at three, Judy Levine at two and Cathy Barbash...
...varsity boat shapes up with co-captains Charlotte Crane and McDaniel holding down the stroke and seven position, respectively. Dorothy Horns will row six. Julie Meck will hold down the five spot with Sarah Wood at four, Debbie Weil, at three, Judy Levine at two, and Cathy Barbash in the bow position, round out the boat...
Private Rooms. Elegant, arrogant Deacon Crane evokes the days of billiards in private drawing rooms, played by aristocrats in smoking jackets. In fact, Crane had his own miniature pool table at the age of eleven, a gift from his lawyer father. Ebullient Machine Gun, so nicknamed because of his rapid-fire technique with a cue, was even more precocious. He had his own table when he was only seven; that was when his mother died and the pool room that his father owned became little Lou's playroom...
...Deacon, now 59 and a Cadillac salesman in Rochester, N.Y., competed in his first world pocket-billiards championship match in 1937 and finished second to Ralph Greenleaf, the best pool player ever. Crane went on to win the world title five times between 1942 and 1970; he would have done even better if Willie Mosconi, probably the alltime second-best player, had not become his nemesis...
...still is. In the climactic game, Crane coolly opened up a lead of 103 to 57. Then Butera hit two hot runs and went ahead 110 to 101 (Crane had lost two points on fouls). It was enough to make Crane break his stoic silence. "That's just a lot of luck," he muttered to a nearby spectator. It became Crane's turn again. He dipped his fingers in talcum powder, sipped some water and hunched over his cue. Forty-nine times he hunched; 49 times the cue jabbed forward; 49 successive times a ball disappeared into...