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...more lefthanded, and shut Gleason out cold in a 100-point game. "I don't know who the hell I'm playin', but he sure does all right under the name he's usin'," said Jackie Gleason-who had been hustled by Willie Mosconi, the world's pocket-billiard champion (and, later on, technical adviser to The Hustler...
...length. Cameraman Gene Shufton has artfully preserved what Actor Gleason calls "the dirty antiseptic look of poolrooms-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The pool-shooting scenes are magnificently staged -the principals were coached by Willie Mosconi, top-ranking pool player in the U.S.-and tellingly edited by Director Robert Rossen (They Came to Cordura). The suspense in the first big game will surely bring sweat to any palm that has ever touched a cuestick. Then, too, Newman is better than usual; Gleason, as the slit-mouthed...
...Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). "Jackie Gleason with Putter and Cue" pits the comedian against Golf Star Arnold Palmer and Billiards Champion Willie Mosconi...
Last week, though, the Bensinger regulars put aside their cards and pool cues to crowd into the twin grandstands of the exhibition arena and watch dapper Willie Mosconi, 41, take on putty-nosed Joe Procita, 56, for the world's championship in pocket billiards, better known as pool...
...player since he began to hang around his father's South Philadelphia pool parlor at the age of six. Willie Mosconi is a veteran of that rowdy era, but now he needs none of its tricks. His mechanical perfection is enough, and it earns him at least $10,000 a year in exhibitions. Last week it won him another world championship by the impressive score...