Re: For all the people who read this.
Dave,
I don't know who you are but if you had been in the pool room you would know that everything I said about that day was true. Danny was there also.
The second time I played Allen was at the N. Hollywood tournament. I think it was about 1974 or 5. We started off playing one pocket even for 200$ a game and broke even. I had a customer call me the other day that was there and remembers exactly as I do.
The last time I played Allen was in Reno. He won 3 games the best of it.
The year I played Allen in Baltimore I also played Cole and gave him 9 to 7 playing one pocket. I didn't win but it was a close game.
I don't know what you think you know about my speed but I played a lot of good players even and would put my win loss record up against anyones.
Bill S.
If you played him for the 2nd time in 74 thay means your story took place before that.
He won the world 9ball in 77, so your story's timeframe is already fvcked.
That was also the year when you couldn't be far enough away from the guy just in case he might ask you to play in front of everyone. Right around the same time when he ran 10-out 3-times in a row on a snooker table for $10k/game while giving up weight in the process. Probably around the same time frame when Rigey's handlers wouldn't even allow him to play Allen.
Therefore, your story already starts off with a bullshit puffed comment about beating Allen after he was a world champion. After all, you just admitted it's bs just by giving the year and date of your 2nd match, which basically means you beat a younger, more inexperienced Allen.... not the reigning world champion, as you claimed.
What you're not getting is you could have told your head-puffed story in a way that was respectful and no one would have raised an eyebrow. Instead, you portrayed Allen like he's a scrub, betting with walking money and such (a claim he flat-out called "bullshit").
In conclusion:
1) The REAL story is far less impressive than you claimed with details that are disputed by a guy who has more integrity in one of his ass hairs than you have in your entire body.
2) You're going out of your way to add a condescending tone and make someone look like the person you already are. You don't even have enough integrity to give the poor bastard who won your bullshit DYD contest his cue, but miraculously your credibility on a story that already started with a false recollection is stronger than Allen's?
If you beat him when he was 19 or 20, broke even a year or two later and lost the last time: if you kept playing it was about to get too scary for ya because you're not even in Allen's solar system when it comes to this game or any derivative of it.
3) In general, it's a good idea to show a molecule of respect to someone who can make you blow them in front of everyone when it comes to any game having to do with round shit and holes.
4) When you win a plethora of world titles, you can mention your name in the the same sentence as Allen's.
5) While we're at it.... WHERE the F is that poor guy's DYD CUE?
Finally, I happen to think your speed is about the same as your cue making, pool playing, personal integrity and story-telling accuracy: over-clocked in your own mind.