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Online dealer of quality used LPs since 1999 vinyl records at great prices. Poptart S. A. s biggest art print and poster shop. Search metadata Search full text of books Search TV captions Search archived web sites Advanced Search. A Project Hindenburg etext A fully corrected edition of Brad Neelys modern classic, based on the second, authoritative recording of the audiobook. Young Turks and old pros, fat times and skinny, Rembrandts and Walter Keanes, watches new people arrive and old ones die. The reason it can exist on a billion little lies is that the single unspoken truth it honors is the only one for which it scores points Thats Euclids truth Newtons truth. Poke the cue ball at the right angle theres Euclid and the object ball drops thats Newton. One point. The lies after all, are designed only to get you a game My games off. I been sick. Yeah, well, I been up four days straight. Im dead. Id go to bed but I cant find my hotel. You shoot good tired. Well Im drunk too. You shoot even better drunk. Hell, I cant even see the table. Im blind for Christ sakes. Yeah, and you shoot good blind. Listen, Im drunk, Im tired, Im sick. Im having trouble with my old lady and Ill spot you three balls. All right, rack em. Bastard. The lies get you into the game, but only the truth gets the hell out with the money. Chalk, shoot, think, bank shot, roll, chalk, work the rack, chalk, shoot, until someone goes home with the truth in his pocket. All rolled up in a rubber band. Some go home with just the rubber band, and some lose that too. Its the little lies that get the press but only because theyre so damn much fun. The truth about professional pocket billiards is its own classic and subtle drama which is built around a set of skills that takes a lifetime to master. The observers problem is that for every hour these men spend learning to play, they spend two hours learning to talk crooked about it. Pool tournaments are a mixture of the truth and the lies. In the official games only the score means anything and its guarded by a referee, a scorekeeper and a standings poster. But the side games, the unofficial afternoon or late night action is generated by the network of lies. The hustlers meet for tournament play four or five times a year. Theres the Stardust tournament in Las Vegas for 3. Johnston City meet for 2. Billiard Congress for 2. Houston, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles or Philly, and get them together to work on one another. Because notoriety precedes most of these men into the pool halls across the country, the only real action they can get is among themselves. The Johnston City, Illinois, Worlds All Round Pocket Billiards Championship is the oldest of the pro tournaments. Paulie and George Jansco started it 1. Show Bar. That was in 1. The pros had of course, been playing all along, but for 2. About 1. 94. 0, pool halls around the country had begun to close for lack of business. Before that, pool in America had seen its golden age between about 1. Those were the salad days of guys like Al Miller. He was on the road at 1. I remember about 1. I was a teenager and got my first tailor made Rambow. Beautiful thing, cost 7. Rambow was the best cue you could get. Still is, and a lot of guys use em. Course, Old Man Rambows dead, but theyre still making the sticks. Back then, you could really hustle. Not that you cant today but then. Around 3. 0, 3. I was really shooting. I won four tournaments in Chicago and a couple in Philly and in 3. I won the national. The halls were different then. They were like palaces. There was this one place in Detroit that had, like, 1. And these places were for gentlemen only. Youd go in and a girl would take your hat and you had to sit down and be quiet, and pretty soon youd get a table. The place was done in royal purple with brass rails and fittings everywhere and during the day you could get away with a sweater with velveteen sleeves. But at night, you had to have a tux. Only games we played then were Straight Pool and Rotation. There was no Nine ball or One pocket or even Eight ball then. And the balls were Zanzibar ivory, much heavier, and you really had to smack em to move em around. By 1. It mattered little that the best of the players wore tuxedos and behaved like gentlemen. The public knew that there was a lot of gambling and cigar smoking and hoods who liked the game. When the War came, professional pocket billiards nearly disappeared. Then, in 1. 96. 1, The Hustler came out. That movie, along with the Jansco brothers and Rudolph Wanderone Minnesota Fats put it all back together. The second golden age of pool began. It was more widespread this time there was less cigar smoking, and pool halls with names like Town and Country Billiards even began to attract the ladies. The heroes turned out to be pretty much the same men whod been the best 2. Al Miller, Luther Lassiter, Irving Crane, and 2. But there were some flashy kids too Danny Jones, Eddie Kelly, Ronnie Allen and there was television and a new generation hungry for sports to watch and play. In 1. 96. 1, the first year of the Johnston City tournament, 1. Mostly to catch George and me says Paulie, but we was tired of losing, so we let em have each other. Every year, the prize money and the entries grew. The Janscos added another big room, and then the hustlers really came like piranhas after some poor cow that wandered into the wrong river but only to find one another. By 1. 96. 3, the field was illustrious enough to bring ABCs Wide World of Sports to cover it. The beer and bourbon standard playing equipment had to be served in paper cups, and the lights were a little hot, but ego runs high around the hustlers, and ABC went back for five years in a row. The Johnston City tournament has more pool action than the Las Vegas get together which Paulie Jansco also runs, for the Stardust hotel. In Vegas, when two hustlers begin the courting ritual thats designed to get them into a side game with the right odds, negotiations are likely to break down early and the two usually end up laughing together and losing their money not to each other but to the house in a game of craps. Johnston City however, is a coal mining town of 3,4. Illinois flatlands that to get there you have to fly into St. Louis, Missouri, 1. The three October weeks that the hustlers spend in town are more likely to be rainy and the only things to do are drink and play pool. The two are far from mutually exclusive and Paulie Jansco has them both sewed up. The press always shows up in Johnston City. 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