Irving Crane vs Jimmy Caras Legends of Pocket Billiards

They will play 7 ball, 9 ball if necessary, they have 8 ball for the playoffs and it has been a fun tournament. Yes, it has a round robin system which makes it a difficult tournament because you have to play against everyone once, so your best win-loss record. will determine the champion, okay, you've faced these two competitors Irving Crane and Jimmy Karras Irving Crane is a guy who can not only make some shots, you like the way you play it safe, yes I do, it's probably the best safety player in the world today. and there's one interesting thing about Irving Crane: he's still competing with the younger players, which is really cool for him because he's an older player now and the other old players aren't competing with us.

You know, I know what sure means he used to call. se snookered explains what safe means safe is when you are hiding behind another object ball in other words if you have to hit ball two and you are hiding behind ball three it means you can't hit ball two directly you are forced to go to a railing to hit it and that's really the game is to play safe and use position. You told me a story about the first time you saw Jimmy Karras on TV and you were duly impressed. Yeah, I saw him play against me and Willie Mosconi.

I was very impressed. Willie Mosconi had made a mistake and Jimmy Karras was out of the game. That's what it's about. We are going to see a great game today. We will see Irving Crane facing Jimmy Karras. You want to stay with us for all the action ahead. ESPN stay right where you are, but try to sink the seven ball on their side of the table. He deviated from the sunken

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side of the table, a game number one, but Jimmy came back to win the second seven-ball game. So we resumed action in game three from Seven Ball Terrace and Crane tied at one game each enjoying his Brown Alan Hopkins back at the Concord Hotel in game three.

Irving Crane and Jimmy Carrots are the title. One worries about breaking up. It's a good break. I've seen all seven go down once or twice in the bag at half-time. Jay Puckett showed us an aggressive break in his match with the weak Lassiter. He won that 7-ball competition in the 9-ball competition on the far side to abstain near. side for

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Karras he has a long and difficult shot here he has to play the one in the corner and lower the cue ball to the two balls at the bottom of the screen and now he is looking to see where he wants to place the cue ball is not a easy shot at all.

What kind of English do you put on this ball for the person who is trying to learn the game? English, you don't want to go too far because if you make the 7 ball early, 7 balls next to the cue ball, if you bring the cue ball back too far to the left to put it on that side of the table, well, this is your side of the table. although you would be fine he will be fine so he will try to bring it back as far as we can see that is the problem when you hit the ball hard if you hit either side the ball doesn't go and that is what happened if we hit the ball pretty well - you almost made it, it's a tough shot for anyone, ball, there's that shot, he came up, used the six ball as a stopper to stop the cue ball, so he stays down here to position himself before the pipe .

We're looking at the co-holder with Willie Mosconi of the world record run of 127 during a tournament, it happened in 1947 in Kansas City on a five by ten table which is a great run on a five by ten this is my east side It's a four and a half by nine dandy table your pool tables are always longer than they are wide yes, they are always twice as long as they are wide the table is four feet wide it will be eight feet long they have three by six tables three and half to seven your bar tables four to eight some tournaments are played on them 4 and 1/2 to 9 is your standard table today caris was man of the year and

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named by the brunswick corporation back in 1968 well, ball, delicate shot , here you have a good position in a fair five I will get it quite easy to hit the six it's okay, it was a good shot to live dangerous it doesn't scratch How do you like the lane of the five six and seven?

Well, he has a tough shot at five. The seven ball is not on your side of the table, it is on the table with Irving's

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, so you have to be careful, we play it safe, you play it too safe, it's not okay, it's okay Irving Kramer trying to make five o'clock. I don't think he plays. sure, I think I think that in that spot, Jimmy Cara should have tried to cut the five, the corner hit the seven ball on his side of the table, five and a very hard cut, let's see if the Haley curve has to go downstream to the six, oh. that's a great shot, he made it look easy, yes he did it, that was a good shot, little right hand, english, okay, he's got the six coming off the rail for the seven Allen, yes, no one should have a problem with those sevens on your side of the table and once again. checks with Charlier firmly to make sure because they are not used to playing this rule.

This is low left hand. English slides it very well. long now living crane is about to advance two games to one. He does. Marie Craine has won the second. match and his goal with Jimmy Karras in the best of seven in seven ball competition, then we will move on to the nine ball competition, let's take a look at this long shot in the five, this was a great shot, he had to hit it easily to sustain the white ball. for the six, the boy hits it at just the right angle, goes around two cushions and now a six a lot, yes, once again because it was a good shot for the quick one and since speed is very important here, it is a right hand in the correct place. just to do it, it's a great shot, he just impresses you long and lanky and gentlemen Crane and Karis, you mentioned at the top, thought it would be a great match, okay let's see what Jimmy decides.

Karis now take the near side to or of weeks I'll take this to hear Alan Hopkins point out that Jimmy Karras would take the near side and he asks questions about the break. Irving Crane used draw a twist. The English one is just to make sure he doesn't get a good scratch. she made a bad break he didn't really have a great break she let the cue ball go in the break she follows after hitting that ball and shouldn't that be the case she would like to stand in the middle of the table she just made a great shot on one, By the way, well, is it tough on those thin cuts?

Yes, it is, but you'll see a little promise when we get back to the table, the five ball is in a very difficult situation here, I don't know. I know if you can see the five, it's still in the side

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, there it is next to the three ball, he's going to have a problem with the five ball, he's going to have to do something with that 500, he got the green perfect for the five to follow. . 'Cause four is gone now, what do you do? Well, he's got, you know, he's good with the three ball. He has an easy position playing the five, but he has to get the five right to find it. six and it won't be easy, yes, it will be interesting to see what he does, he will have to get the cue ball off the rail a little bit and he made five in a car, he came out perfect, but he has to be careful when drawing this. he balls back because he might scratch the side, he can just hold the five ball and keep the cue ball there.

I want to see what he does right if you're looking forward, if you're okay. Hugh ball right there, no, he has a delicate shot to position himself for the seven, it's clear on the rail on the other side, it's not an easy cut, look at the cue ball, they had no option on that shot, he could only carry the cue ball right there. If you had tried to make something stinky water you probably would have been baffled and your seven has to go the other way. The cue ball is close to Jimmy Karaca's side. Oh, tough shot, he has to get to the right side of the seven ball, let's see if he got there.

Oh, he got a. great position, right, what he did, the carriage is amazing, it's something that has a safe, Jimmy cares, he says, Rags Woods, do you want to shoot this shot?, Rags Woods took down Minnesota, no, really, really He made a great shot, missed the six ball. but he behaved well with the seven ball that Jimmy Cara left, a bank shot. Three carats have to go to the side rail, they're right on the middle diamond and try to hit the six ball if you miss with a ball in your hand and we'll probably lose the game, you don't have to lose it from there boss, you can make This bench doesn't, so he doesn't have to lose the game from here, that's fine, because Irving doesn't have to go up to seven. years - it's not like that it's ball in hand here the crane plane this is interesting now this is a great strategy tell me how you would play this shot once again the seven has to move away from the side where the ball is now well, he's like speed is very important here, he wants to make sure he doesn't scratch the top corner on your right hand screen, break my poppy part on the right corner of your screen, so he has to make sure the speedster hit. puts a little to the left oh he doesn't want to scratch perfect what a shot it's a great shot what a great shot that's why it's not a crane listen to the crowd seven in the corner urban crane just went up three games to one what a nice shot by Irving Crane, great shot and you know he pointed out so many times to Alan that he didn't Arena, he was lucky when he missed six balls, snooker, the pool ball in the vision, Jimmy cares, let's take a look at the ovary, I can't see my best shots, this is great position shot, plays two wings, one wing, they go to the sideline, making sure he doesn't get scratched and going down to the last four to seven, well that's a great shot, so after four games.

I'm curving, Crane hits the seven ball and Crane now leads Jimmy Karras three games to one in our competition. We were playing for $10,000 Hopkins. I'm Herb Brown, happy to be with you as we watch Urban Crane take on Jimmy Karras and There's a Story. Crane showed us a couple of great shots for the position in that last game. Yes, he did it. He played very well. This is the spectacular and legendary third round of

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. They had had no competition. Allen since 1956. They got together a couple of years ago. I see this getting bigger and better.

The players seem to like it. Competition is needed. For them to play well, you have to have competition. All of these big players thrive on competition. The better they play, the more competition will tell them what's interesting. Irving crane leaves the we have a lot of old baseball games around the country, but you're talking about your heroes with our scary, faded vision that's fading and they really can't do much more than go out and Get the applause and people like the memories, but now you have guys like Jimmy Karras and Irving Crane can still play. 65 70 years of help doesn't matter.

A huge amount of talent to be able to continue playing. They really have tremendous talent. and I'll tell you, some young whippersnapper will come along and say, I can handle these guys and these guys will take your money, that's right, what a cut, he's still a great player, he'll walk away. He tried to kick the seven on this table, but Okay and of course you can combo it if the seven lands on your side or here's the primary six with the six on the side and it also makes the four look at that combo knight that was Thinking, a good shot on the fourth floor was not easy. shot, I say who impresses me, since Charlie is prepared, you talk about the awareness ball, he had that bridge app before Jimmy Cara showed up, he knows the game, Garrity and he's freaking out, I was watching it with you this afternoon, He's from the corner, that's my soccer ball. he's the kind of guy I'd like to play with every day you like all of us every day Jimmy's got a chance here, he'll follow the cue ball up a little bit playing six in the corner, but Hyannis with the cue ball kept going down for 7-7 in the corner so an easy shot from Jimmy Cara can score his second and in this set and he does, he's behind Irving played three games to two best of seven made a good run there made some key shots four balls in the corner it was a great shot almost making the six twenty percent blocked Gerry Cooney was in the crowd today I'm trying 1% my partner Alan Hopkins came out of his mouth when he wasn't that scared Holmes it was just them I think that Mark gasps and I was here, I didn't do the dance, in fact, he wanted to play, get ready for the fritto, ready, Jimmy Karras, behind three to two, he will break, this is the competitive spirit, look at those eyes, do you think who didn't prepare this thing. finished, no, he's far from finished, well, just hit a ball here and get a shot, no ball to pocket on the break.

Billy Armstrong, another one of the wrestlers who trained here at Concord, was in today, it seems like kind of a nice back and forth. to have fun bringing out the near side Billy Costello, the WBC welterweight champion, was here, yes, Jimmy got the opposite side, left Irving Crane safe, Irving, laughed behind the four balls, was forced to go to the side railing and try to kick it. there's ball four you can't seem to hit the one you'll have to go to the side rail and try to hit the one we're talking about a game of golf on a pool table and you always get this shot because you have certain pockets that your hole has At the start, maybe you can hit it right, boy, it's not tricky, it's trying.

I thought he was hooked.too much so we're being trained with a fine cut that ties this thing to two and boy do you think you have a wire because Jimmy Karras felt that one was wired and it came out a little bit too. much on the eight ball I couldn't get position on the nine and we are tied two-two crane has already won ten points we are playing for $10,000 first prize cash the second place person gets 5,000 we go down to 3500 and 2500, so the three competitors The rest get $1,000 each. Think about it in the last game.

Irving Crane thought about when he was supposed to do it and now this game Jimmy Karras didn't come out when he was supposed to do it, so it makes up for the perversity. Understand, I think. that would relax her a little better make her feel a little better than Jimmy Karastan coming out or was he supposed to look around the crowd this has really slowed the crowd down the game with Moscone and Woods was a very fast and fast paced game and the crowd really got into is that the crowd is not in this no, it's a safety play, they don't understand what's going on, that's why they're not interested from the beginning, it's a very cautious type of game, it's a belted target and braces, it's good, it's very, very safe, there's a bit of a difficult shot on ball one, but ball three is in a difficult situation, that's what he's worried about right now, he's not really worried about making the 1 or get the two, it's the three ball that worries you a little.

I was watching Irving Crane before the game do some warmup stuff and he pulled out the jumper and warmed up oh look at this oh he took a bad break looks like he's frozen right behind the three ball well let's see if he'll have to cross, hit a railing to that I can hit the ball. Funny things could happen here. You almost made it. Yes, he did it. He almost made it. You had that cable. Aren't you young? Happy as they call it. It doesn't fail too much. Alright, here's the bridge. He'll cut this into the corner and come up for the three-nine combination.

He will play the following combination. I don't think I can lie on the table like I used to when you were a kid. Keep a front table in it. ground, so if that ball hits the bridge it's a scratch. I found out that I call it base. It was a difficult shot. Here is the idea. This is not an easy combination. It can be overlooked and those combinations have to be perfect. We have seen that these combinations have to be perfect. a couple, but we see that more myths have been dropped than those, they are difficult every time you shoot a combination, you have to hit the object ball exactly on the second object ball, right where you want to do it and, if you don't, lose the combination that is just what happened there Irving has what we call a kiss shot on the 9 ball he can hit the 3 first he kisses the cue ball towards three and on the ninth carom they call it carom or kiss I call it kissing the ball towards the nine and doing tonight in the corner would you make this plane to hit the three and the vineyard anak hay?

I probably would it looks like it looks like it's practically on now Ann Hopkins calls it exactly Irving crane goes up three games to two let's take another look at this shot that you called to kiss the shot hitting the three first and caroming the nine and making the nine in a corner very well done after five games of nine-ball competition Irving Crane has won three Jimmy Kerris is one, two, we'll be back with more nine-ball action at the third annual Legendary Pocket Billiard Stars Tournament. Irving Crane can finish, he leads Jimmy Karras three games to two.

I have to tell you to look at the momentum and everything in the first two games. With that we saw with Minnesota Fats and UJ a couple of people who like to talk to the audience, that jokes a lot, the crowd really gets involved, both gentlemen are very serious, very methodical, they play with a lot of confidence and the crowd has been out of it since then. So far, it's been a long game. Furthermore, these two players are parliamentary players and are champions. Okay, they have won between these two players. They have like 12 consecutive world titles alone and you're crazy, they take themselves very seriously when they come to the table and they play very well at safety and what happens is that the people who are watching don't understand exactly what's going on.

The level of intensity here has been much higher in previous matches. They're playing for $10. They are trying to earn those ten thousand tears. However, it will be interesting when the split occurs when Puckett plays Crane or Minnesota Fats plays Karis. It will be interesting to see the reaction, well you will also see the difference in the game. You will see a very different game for these two players. a lot of respect for each other or they may not have the same respect for you J pocket or the minister are good friends they have dinner together tonight they are good friends but they also have a lot of respect and a tremendous amount of respect they know how much they know about what each one is able - bottom then Irving Crane will play the two on the side he leads three games to two one the first set has ten points I think he hit hard no, that's not what he wanted to do, he may have been lucky;

I might have all three in the corner before I sit there, so he'll just freeze a nice little car, no, he's got three pretty good angles from the corner, he did it, it's a good shot now that he's got it. play the four and play the position for the six the ball a five is not on the table I am not an easy shot to play the four position he will take it so hard that the six dies in the corner he does not want to go straight to the six he wants a little bit of an angle she has to go up to the table he's going to put this little right hand on this high right part anyway she wants to follow the ball right here it's good to get the cue ball to the table well it looks like it's in excellent The shape shot may hit a little too hard Willie Bank this or try to cut no, I don't think Bank.

I believe who plays it safe or tries to cut I don't believe this I don't believe you I'll see him shoot a lot of benches in the season unless it's on if he's online he'll play it, he'll play it cutting me I don't like where the cue ball goes, oh Yes, what are you going to do with the eight on the board? a scratch there, did he make a good shot that stops oh oh my goodness close to your work little bank shot coming here now he's going to have to put a four cut in the core.

I think he's going to play safety, so I'll put a little bit of a right hand on the ball and try to get behind the nine with the cue ball. You could hit the v8 almost directly against the rail, dragging the cue ball into the lower round, putting the eight on the other lower rail, on the other. railing table or simply hitting a round by putting a table down will make players safe. You can do exactly what I said. Haney Aydin straight to the rail to the bottom rail and the cue ball to the bottom row inscribing it behind you tonight if we can it would have been much better, I took a good shot, excellent shot, Jimmy Karras can see it, get Neil Bank on Willie Allen here, yeah, I think he knows he's playing it safe, well, we got a kiss, but he got away with it. like you mentioned Farley sometimes you'd rather be here you heard him sometimes you'd rather be lucky than be good he was very lucky there he should have scratched the corner he got a double kiss on the a he should have scratched now Irving Crane will play the shot he was asking for, so will hit directly against the rail, towards the side rail, back up next to the nine ball and bring the cue ball back to the bottom rail.

I don't think he plays a shot. here we will play with a safety or that or we will face the eight and place the cue ball behind the nine ball. It's also not a bad shot if you can get away with it and it's hard to play pool with someone who only has one ball on the table. work with yeah, okay, he's going to tie it, well, he was going to tie it, we're talking about $10,000, a lot of decisions, he's been a crane leading in three games to two, he's playing to safety, Oh, a bank Well, he lives in the middle. no, he left us safe, my God, he got lucky, oh my God, Alan Hopkins knows the role of these tables even before the ball stops, he got another Safety going to play, he put the eight ball behind the nine, I don't know if it got there or not.

It looks like Crane can see it here. What are you doing here? When trying to make a bank, you play it safe. He sits right in the middle, in no man's land. It's like getting an 8 in blackjack. He's got a couple shots here. You can deposit the 8 ball across the corner or you can simply place the eight all the way to the end of the table, you need a cue ball right behind the 9. I don't think you will try to cut this on this terribly difficult slice shot and if you miss it, you will lose. the game, this is a very important game, but he's trying to cut it, it looks like it's a shot, let's see what the position is now perfect, perfect position by Irving, train your Charlie game, set the game, there it is , let's take a look and what happens. made what a cut it's a great shot eight plays the eight in the corner comes around four lanes for the position that takes a long time some put a little left hand brings it all the way back for the nine ball one more angle Alan, let's take a look to this sure ball that falls great cut shot it has to hit something horrible just catch it just do it it's a great shot o Irving Crane won the nine ball contest, he also won the 7 ball contest, that's okay 20 points, we'll be back in the Catskills right after this, why did I say your safety player was going to come into play here and it finally earned you a shot at the eight ball in the final game and you had a tough shot and didn't you?

I feel like your safety game won the game for you. I think it played a big role and sometimes it depends on how the ball is placed and sometimes you want to shoot and you shouldn't, you have to play safe, which I did and the eight and nine on the table the last shot there I didn't want a plant because if you miss you lose the game and you can lose the whole set by losing that shot but when I looked at it I said well yeah I had to shoot and then I have to hit there with enough speed, you come to make a shot, it worked well.

I shot and that was it. I know you are a very good three-way player. Do you believe that? It helped you a lot in that shot, many games that I have played in the called shot and also in these games, the knowledge of three-cushion billiards is very, very important, going up and down the table for position, going three-cushion for the position, means a lot to me in the last 3040 years. I think he has done it anyway. Well, you beat Jimmy Karras and you beat him in two straight sets. Do you feel like you will do well in the tournament?

Win the tournament. How do you feel about me? You never predict winning a game or winning a tournament. I would tell you one thing. I hope to play well. Any of these salesmen can beat me and I can beat any of the guys. You'll see me tomorrow night and I'll leave you. I know roughly what I'm going to do right. Your next opponent is last year's champion, Luther Lassiter, one of my old competitors and he had a very good player. Anyone who wins it has to play well and have a little luck, so anyone here. You can beat me and I'll beat anyone here, so it's a lot of fun, okay?

I feel like you're doing it right. We'll come back to the old

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in a moment. It's more strategy. I really thought they were both very very competitive, oh yeah, for me it was a great match, maybe for the fans it was boring, but when you incorporate the safety game, it's a very important part of the game. The safety game can win a lot of games and a lot of tournaments for you and Irving Crane is one of the great safe players and I said that at the beginning of the game and he won the game when he got that shot on the eight ball and then he made a great shot and he recovered by nine.

I'm really impressed with the knowledge these two guys have. You're talking about people who don't make many mistakes, not between these two players and a couple of other players, and they have more knowledge than all the players you know combined. nothing they don't know about billiards. I don't think I'm telling you the truth. We've seen everyone except cowboy Jimmy Moore. He will now have to face Jimmy Karras. You'll see your impressions of cowboy Jimmy Moore when you do. Watch him play, he has a nine-ball long shot. Well, he has one of the longest swings in the game.

It's very exciting to watch because he does things with the cue ball that you won't see done by these other players, where Jimmy now Jimmy. Karras, I've seen him play the night, he's playing better, he had some bad results tonight, but he's playing better. Should be a good match. You have seen six of the seven competitors. You want to make a long-term prediction. terribly harder, how could you do that to me? I'll tell you what Irving Cranes plays very well Jimmy Karen has the mats, okay Luther, the last album, some bad vibes that you, J, you play well too, okay, everyone is playing the rag, I was surprised.

I had never seen him play before. He played better than I thought. He's going to be great. I'll tell you. Don't know. I can't make a prediction. This is a story from here. Living Crane defeated Jimmy Karras in Pocket Billiards Legends for Allen Hopkins I'm around thanks for being with us