Willie Mosconi Jimmy Caras Straight Pool Match

Inside the Athletic Club on the lakefront these fans eagerly await the start of the re

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between Willie Mosconi and Jimmy Cara last fall and on ABC's Wide World of Sports you saw Jimmy Karras defeat Willie Mosconi and this is today's re

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our expert on the show is Roy Kim a former three time intercollegiate champion and Roy let's talk about 14 1 continuous pocket billiards how it is played thank you Bill in fact it is 14 a continuous game and the main objective of this game is pop all 14 balls, leaving the 15th ball in such a position that you can achieve it in a subsequent shot, match them on the rack, break the rack and continue your race from there, well, now the game is 125, then it is conceivable That a guy can start, run 125 and win, right?

In fact, we have two outstanding players today and, to borrow a phrase, this is going to be a horse race. Okay, Roy will be waiting for the comments from him and now let's meet our contestants, first of all, the retired world champions, 15 times won the World Championship. and just Willie Mosconi, you're penitential Trinity for declaring again, well, actually, we, we, in the competition, always hope to try to get revenge on us next time. Did I say retired? Now you're not really retired. Why am I withdrawn from the competition? but not the efficient Mexican work I still travel all over the country and I do quite well but there is a lot at stake here today one person $5,000 3500 dollars for the winner 1500 for the loser and I know you want to be okay, okay, okay. good luck to you Willie Mosconi and now a man who won the world championship four times, a man who won the national and world title in the same year, the only man who did it and that is Jimmy Karis Jimmy, who won this match a year ago anus. in New York if it were the New York Athletic Club but I'd sure tell what the story of that union was 125 82 okay, you feel pretty good, you know, I know you've been modeling a lot oh yeah, it feels pretty good, okay, warm up because we're almost ready to get started with the start of the Chicago National Invitational Pocket Billiards Championship on ABC's Wide World of Sports.

We'll be back with more from the National Invitational Pocket Billiards Championship in a moment, Gillette safety. razor company brings you this segment of ABC's Wide World of Sports, all set to start now and both players will stand back to see who starts this game, they will shoot the cue ball to this end and whoever gets closest to the head. Rail will be the winner and will have the option to decide who will break and Mosconi wins the stage and designates Karras to make the break. Well, let's have our expert Roy Kimen here to do an exploration of what this means that Karras will break. the ball is safe and, in fact, Willie will have the first opportunity to try to run the ball.

Okay, now the two guys you saw hit the railing made it a legal break, so Harris left Moscone at the head of the table and not too far. to shoot every barrel that DePaul shot there, I think he's going to pocket it, well he missed, actually he did and that's pretty unusual for Moscone and it's an inning for Willie Mosconi without scoring anything so Jimmy Cara is making a beautiful break to the left. Moscone, who doesn't have much to shoot at, now has a chance and now he has one. Remember that the game is 125. He will also try to put 14 in his pockets, leaving one for the counterattack shot, this allows him to continue, that's right.

He made a good breaking shot on ball three and now he appears to be on his way to executing it correctly. It's a little early to determine the breaking ball for the next clue, however, I'll mark it right now with, say, 212 all. However, it bothered the 12 at that time. Now the voice heard in the background is that of referee Dick Youngin from Rockford Illinois. He is also counting and designating where the balls will land in this game. The player must designate to the referee what shot he is going to take. seven balls in the corner pocket, he's made seven, he's got eight balls on the table and we'll try to put seven more and leave one for the break shot and Roy right here, we should probably say this is a lot like a game of chess . where these great players are thinking five six seven maybe even a dozen shots ahead they are in the deep count and right now it looks like Kim Ball is a great shot if he does everything as planned I can tell my hand will be the break shot to him, the energy mix sounds good, he has four on the table, he has 11 and he is leading Willie Mosconi 11 nothing, since Willie Mosconi did not have time in his first inning fifteen, side pocket Jimmy Kara started playing billiards pocket at the age of 17, he is now 54 years old, so he has had a long and excellent career.

You already left town for my big shot and at this point it's gone. I would say ROI and excellence to shape it. He is in very good condition. Dad does this without problems and gets some good action with the cue ball up to the 15 range now and is going to study the situation a little, he doesn't have a great field, in fact the 13 ball on the left side as you see, the only ball in the left side is full, he goes for the two balls and gets them now. This is a situation where I, where the great players really shine, this is true.

I watched Mosconi here, you see him just knowingly, not here as to. what Charis is going to do five balls 25 9 balls side bagger 18 Branch 18 for Jimmy Cara is studying this situation here Roy because he has a group of balls in a group and not too many outside the biggest target, right? I will go for the 11 on the side and it is not a very difficult shot, however in some cases that club becomes very heavy, there is no match for this important and very significant shot that takes you to the 19. By the way, Jimmy Kara is the charcoal holder of the world record and the man he is.

The match in this match is also the co-headline 127 established in 1949 in Kansas City in the morning and I don't know, he seems to have things very well in him, yes, he does, this is a bit of a difficult shot, however, the balls They are the ones that broke nicely. now and you'll probably have the eight ball for a break shot in the mix, the seven ball in the corner pocket, it's 11:43 p.m., so at this point you've got the balls spread out like you want to get caught comfortably and always considering you have one for the serve shot for this game you have a lot of concentration you don't drive yes a note you don't understand how D and what concentration is involved in a game like this right now the 15th ball will be your penultimate shot during this rack and as I said before probably the eight ball will be his breaking shot, he seems to be in good swing and out of trouble at the moment 25, that's 25 for Jimmy Cara's 7 ball, the first Packer and that's 26, he's made two excellent shots in this particular rack, fourteen balls in the corner pocket and now he has left a ball on table 28 and very well done, in fact, we will return in a moment with more action and the National.

Invitational Pocket Billiards Championships here in Chicago on ABC's Wide World of Sports Jimmy Karras has now raced to completion. He hasn't made any shots that have been particularly difficult. He planned his shots perfectly and didn't get into trouble. Willie Mosconi has not scored. So far, Karras has run 55 to nothing and continues to be in impeccable form, so it could be that he has run 54, he has an easy one with the eight ball, but there is the problem that those two are the four and the five just an inch away from each other. distance and they're just one ball an inch and a half, two inches from the rail and on this 14, a very risky continuous game and I can safely say it's over, that's very good, a determined look there, but if you get the chance Showing that determination at the dinner table is another matter.

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