I've been sneaking out of the basement a bit more often here lately, but this past weekend my wife was out of town so I had figured I would get to put some quality time in with the kiddos. When he was able to talk, he asked “What kind of a trap are you trying to put me in? That damn Billy Smith is probably the best American Three-cushion player on the planet, and he will gamble!” To my surprise, Bucky's face kind of exploded, and he spewed his coffee out and all down the front of my shirt. I said, “Bucky, I can get you a game with Bill Smith.” I thought it was generic enough of a name that he'd probably not recognize it. Bucky said, “Those damn billiard players are a bunch of stuffed shirts. He made the casual statement that he wished there was someone he could gamble with at Three-cushion. Bucky happened to be in that morning, and he was hitting balls around on my old Brunswick Anniversary carom table. Bucky Bell has been a friend of mine, and a player rep for my cues, for many years. Here's a story from Freddy 'The Beard's' book about Bucky Belll, told by, Sherm 'Cuesmith.'Ībout a week later I was back in Cincinnati at my poolroom, Beechmont Billiards. Good times and wish I had gotten in the game much earlier than I did.some classic moments. To say it polluted the air would be an was overwhelming! hahaha I really regret that.Īnother thing that sticks out in my mind about that tourney is I think everyone besides me was wearing Joop cologne. What's more of a shame is that Red lived 20 miles from me and I never took the time to ask for lessons and such. Didn't know how legendary he actually was. I knew little about him other than he was an old player. This same tourney was the first time I saw and met Cornbread Red. So, in hindsight I may be talking about the next to last tourney steepletons had.ĭenver Barger won the tourney iirc as I think he won the year before too. Corey shouted a couple things at them and said he would be back. When corey lost a couple guys were ribbing him over it as he was breaking his cue down. It was crazy and one of the things the drew me even closer to the game. I was standing 6-7 from the table on both shots. Dallas made one of the best jump shots I've ever seen after Corey played a safe that was just as strong as the jump. Really? It's amazing how often some of us fanatics cross paths and never know each other.Ĭorey was put out of the tourney by Dallas West I think. I'll never forget Bucky shouting how absurd these allegations were while wearing his black leather VNEA Masters jacket from the year before. Then up comes Bucky Bell to argue our case in his typical woofing style. Turned out they were out in the hall protesting to the Tournament Directors that there was no way we could be in the Open Division with Master players like Bucky Bell on our team. Shortly, we noticed the entire opposing team had disappeared, no where to be seen. It was in the VNEA Nationals I think and we were pounding the opposing team game after game. One year circa 1997 or so I had the privilege of playing as a sub on one of those great Airway Vegas teams (Gary Spaeth, Frank Ruby, Jason Miller, Bucky Bell). Took a lesson from him and he demonstrated a firehose of shots running around the table saying "now lookie here!" Don't remember any of the shots but still can't get the "now lookie here" out of my head.
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