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...Francisco, Willie Mosconi successfully defended his world pocket-billiard championship for the eleventh time in twelve years by beating Luther Lassiter, 150-33, in the title match. Mosconi's reward...
Champion Willie Mosconi, who makes about $9,000 a year at his job, hopes to cash in on the renaissance of pocket billiards. He knows the two principal arts: to think four to six shots ahead, and never to leave his opponent an easy shot...
Unlike gentlemanly Willie Hoppe, the carom-billiard king* who appears to be looking at the ceiling while his opponent shoots, Mosconi and Crane eyed each other like two men trying to flag the same cab on a rainy night. Mosconi, shooting almost too rapidly, made runs up to 139. But when he missed he banged the table unbecomingly, sat down, and snapped irritably to spectators who stood in the doorway: "Come...
Naughty Word. Mosconi and Crane are unmistakably in earnest about their rivalry. But they both work for the same boss, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., largest U.S. manufacturers of billiard and bowling equipment. Brunswick, which has done a lot to make bowling respectable, is now out to do as much for pool. Brunswick is well aware that many of the nation's 32,000 pool halls are only fronts; they are often gambling and bookie joints, or at best, no place for a lady. B-B-C employees are fined $1 every time they say "pool"; they must...
...promotes lunchtime crap shooting on one of BBC's finest billiard table models, makes $80 a day as his cut before the day's regular billiard business begins? B-B-C is concentrating its crusading efforts on 300,000 Boys' Club members and sending experts like Mosconi, Crane and trick-shot specialist Charlie Peterson to college campuses to demonstrate and stir up interest. There are now some 130 college billiard teams (including Cornell, Princeton, Ohio State). The current champion: University of Minnesota. This summer B-B-C will open its first model billiard room in the Midwest...