Yes they do. Call 618.462.4435. You just missed thier tournament on the 12th. Good luck!

I recall seeing that tournament and your right, it was hard to watch at times. I guess time has a way of catching up with everybody. I know it won’t be long and I’ll have to get me some glasses or laser eye surgery or something. My eyes just don’t work right anymore. If I had to play in one of those long, grind it out, tourneys I’m not sure how well I could hold up anymore. Oh well , thats probably not gonna happen anyway. I was glad my son got to see those legends playin’ on TV. Wish he could of seen them in their prime though. Hell, I wish I could of seen them in their prime , lol.

A persons physical and mental make-up has a lot to do with how well they perform later in life irrespective of what sport they play.
Examples: Warren Spahn threw two no-hitters over the age of 40. Nolan Ryan pitched to age 47 and threw three no-no’s and setting strikeout records while over 40. There are five active pitchers over 40 in the majors today pitching well. George Blanda in football, Michael Jordan from basketball, and many from other sports. Some of those senor golfers don’t do too badly.
Of course there’s a lot of luck involved for those guys, while others may have physical problems that prevent them from maintaining their AAA rating.
As far as billiards… Willie Mosconi I believe could have played at 100. He had that kind of attitude that he was the best and wouldn’t let up on you if he was ahead 99-0.
Pool is 75-80% mental (I’ve always been told) so other factors for them would be “eye sight” or, lack of same. It’s a real b*tch when you can’t even see the end of the table clearly. Or the balls look fuzzy even with glasses.
All things being equal… I do believe that pool players can play their sport much later in life than any other sport and maintain a modicum of success.
Anyway, I hope some of this makes sense.

I’ll forgive your arrogance if you’ll forgive my ignorance…Had the legends been playing regularly up until the exhibition? I’m probably stating the obvious here, but if they hadn’t been playing, I wouldn’t expect much out of them no matter their ages. If Willie and **** had both laid off as well, perhaps they’re just the type of players who can get back into it without much work. Or perhaps, as you suggested (I think), it was the lack of pressure or adrenaline that kept them from playing the way they were capable of playing.

As to the effects of aging, I would say they definitely have to appear at some point…I imagine that most of us, if we try, could be or possibly are improving our games. Then at some point, we reach a plateau (due to mental or physical limitations). And after we’re there for awhile, we can only decline. But it does seem like players could work at it and fend off that decline for quite some time; it seems like things happen so gradually that they could work with it and get used to things as they come (easy enough for a 28-year-old to say!).

–Lea

How do you think Ali would do in the ring today??
Age does have an effect on every thing and every body We need a viagra type med for pool players it just made me shoot harder ok ok enough of that
My life long hero was Eddie Taylor last time i saw him play hestill ran 11 in banks inc a 5 rail kick shot against Grady Mathews from SC and yes that was way off for him but still better than most well up in years
If Willie was playing a player that was on his level 30 years before would he have still won ??

Good one Straight Later Johnny

In order to motivate and inspire our members, *** organizes OCCASIONAL motivating ACTIVITIES. The first motivating ACTIVITY this semester was a billiard tournament, held on November 1st AT a billiard club in the city. About forty members PLAYED in the tournament IN PAIRS . They all showed great skill and the winners were BB and DR, who DEFEATED UJ and TJ in the finals. The winners received certificates and books as PRIZES.

instead of praise, use prize.

aside from that its very good

I don’t know if every little grammatical detail is correct, as i am a high school student. But from what i saw it is very good.

The last word should be “prize” not “praise.” You don’t need a comma after the word “tournament” in the second sentence. You do need a comma after “skill” in the next to last sentence and no comma after DR.

I would shy away from any brand you don’t know or you might get screwed. The following list of cues should be in the price range of 100 to 200. Any more expensive and you don’t need it while you are starting out.

McDermott
Meucci
Joss
Shamrock
Schon ( a little more expensive)
Gilbert

As far as tournaments i would look in your home town. Unless you live in a really small town there are probably local tournaments. Otherwise you can find them on line. I don’t know the URL but the site name is A to Z Billiards. They have a pretty good list of tournaments and pool players.

This is right up my alley, Stephen. If you know the St. Charles – St. Peters areas you should know about “Just One More”. Gene Rader has 8-ball and 9-ball every Saturday and Sunday. They both are handicapped tournaments. 636-477-8430.
Cue & Cushion – in Overland – 314-427-9267.
Fucifino’s – in Berkeley – 314-890-0011.
Airport Billiards – by the Airport on Woodson Rd. 314-428-2200.
All these places are only 10-minutes from each other and have something going on the weekends. Good luck.