Memo rugnao from san jose

[70niner]

Has anyone ever played this old timer named Memo. I heard he is a pretty tough character to beat back in the day. If you walk into Campbell billiards I hear he will accept a challenge game with a little weight of course. (The man is 75 years old now.) Any one got any stories about this character. One thing I do know, he always managed to land the finest girl in the joint. He must only be 5 feet 9 inches or so. How does he do it?

[jrhendy]

I haven't seen Memo for a while, but consider him a good friend. When I first came up to Calif. Billiards in San Jose, we would go to the Palace in San Francisco & the all night joint called the Wooden Cue in San Jose & Memo would go in with me in any game I played. He didn't book many losers and always was in action of some kind. He was a very good golf player on the 6 x 12 and tortured a local player named Indiana Gary so much for so long playing one pocket, Gary would only play him cheap 3-cushion billiards, and Memo beat him most of the time at that.

[suki]

Memo was at Fast Eddys as an observer over the weekend and did get one action game with a local and got waxed and pulled up. Tough for him at 76
but he was in company of another young gal. He told me unlike a fine wine he never has a woman under 25 and never has. We laughed a lot. Him and I go way way back. He could play regardless of his stature and appearance.

[Troy]

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Has anyone ever played this old timer named Memo. I heard he is a pretty tough character to beat back in the day. If you walk into Campbell billiards I hear he will accept a challenge game with a little weight of course. (The man is 75 years old now.) Any one got any stories about this character. One thing I do know, he always managed to land the finest girl in the joint. He must only be 5 feet 9 inches or so. How does he do it?

[gerry jones]

I've known Memo pretty much since I moved to California. He was always deceptively tough, because a lot of people couldn't figure out how he played so well!!! I never played Golf or One Pocket till I came to CA, and Memo gave me some very cheap lessons in both games (when we first played Golf, he gave me the first 3 holes and I never won a game). He's staked me in matches over the years. We've gone many places together (along with Ron Lillies, "Snake", etc.) and always had a laugh...

Memo's rep is not always the best, but I consider him a friend and if you could get inside one guy's head to gain pool (and gambling) knowledge, it should be him. I still don't know how he was able to play so well!!

[gerry jones]

John, in regards to your comment about how Memo used to torture Gary, I was a witness to most of that debacle. It took Gary a very long time to figure out that Memo could beat him in his (Memo's) sleep. When Gary started playing 3 cushion, he would practice constantly, play pretty good players and make some good shots (he ran an 11 on me one time!!!). I'd wake up Memo, sometimes (the guy liked to sleep), so he could play Gary. He'd walk to the back of CB like he was still sleeping, proceed to beat Gary and after the match was over, go back to sleep. Gary would stand there with a dazed look that said: "how did that old guy with no stroke and bad technique beat me?"... It was one of the funniest things I ever saw.