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Steve Davis retires
Steve Davis retires
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thegiggilo
A similar situation to myself. I also played with the ivory balls on a match billiard table. You could still play all your positional shots, obviously a more heavier and slower feel but century breaks were still there to be made. Everyone thinks it's easy on these speedier more reactive conditions, but every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A trace of side on the cue ball today and you are off your line by a wider margin than back in the day. |
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Those old players used side and touch rather than screw,if a ball touched the gunk that was it,it stayed there.
The smashing into the balls is a relatively new phenomenon,you wouldn't send those ivory balls all over the place. Thegiggilo you obviously played to a high standard. I had a break of 68 ( my highest ever ) and it was talk of the town for a while. Gobelins. Round I still constitutes a qualifier as the top seeds weren't playing in it. Don't want to make this confrontational but have you still a copy of that Snooker Scene magazine with the Corals Ad. |
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I used to practise at a bowling club with two very old billiard tables and at the local liberal club which had a very old table pockets were tiny,you couldn't hit anything hard along bottom or top cush simply wouldn't go in.I also had two cues an old walter lindrum cue I took out of the rack must've been 15mm you couldn't use a 10mm using such heavy balls you just destroy your tip and ferrule using ivory balls..
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Just asked an old old practice partner and he informs me we were actually playing with artificial ivory balls.
My conscience is clear now. Beautiful animals. |
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wildmanfromborneo - yes, I've got it. I'm assuming those prices would have been 3-4 weeks before the action started, as the magazine probably came out at the start of the month, as it does now, and had been printed a week or so beforehand. There are a few players with asterics next to their names as they were playing the qualifiers (including White). That year the tournament consisted of 24 players, not 32 - this changed the following year, and the point I was making about the Davis v White match - was that it was part of the tournament proper at the Crucible and not a qualifying match.
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Zen,
Sorry not to get back to you yesterday but my recordings are running about 4 hours late and hate missing anything. You can add to Hearns list of iffy achievements "Jack the lad" "Barrow boy" and Master of Smoke and Mirrors and the 3 card trick .  and he is very proud of not trusting himself |
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Davis sounds happier now he's retired.
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