Extravagances on Pool

"The sweet taste of victory and the agony of defeat are human quality awards, and can not be denied."

1. Instead of a taco, Harry Lewis used his nose! I once hit 46 balls fell swoop ... or rather "nose."

2. Sam Sicherman New York, practicing getting minga pool in the mouth and blowing to the table! In 1938 he hit 15 balls "blow."

3. George Sutton, "The billiard Manco" in 1930 made one go than 3,000 points in "carambola free." This has been one of the greatest achievements in any game or sport. Sutton's arms were mutilated to the elbows.

4. Johnny Layton (former world champion "pool" and three bands) in 1941 made four tacadas of 70 balls (mode "14-1") in 4 pool halls, the same night in 4 different towns in Illinois.

5. Julius Shuster (1936) had the power to collect 10 billiard balls in each hand a flat surface and turn the hands up and down without dropping them.

6. Baron Paul Natorp, Vienna Austria, played a match against him daily for 32 consecutive years and maintained the "score sheet" as well as the statistics carefully archived.

7. In 1945, William E. Bell, trying to make a "double short" around the corner, the ball jumped off the table, bounced off the ground, fell into another table and scored in double short corner in the pocket!

8. Ms. Frances Anderson used to be called "World Billiards Champion." When he died in 1930, found that "Frances" actually was a man!

9. In 1701 Duke Maximilian of Bavaria lost the equivalent of $ 3,600,000.00 in a single afternoon betting pool with his assistant Barthels, this was the cause of the dethroned.

10. Due to an argument in a game of pool in 1843, two French, and Mellant Lenfant, entered into a duel to the death ball pool! The duel took place in Maisont, France, and Lenfant died after receiving a "bolazo" in the head.