...and probably are!
...and probably are!
JAM said:
One thing for sure, I recognize all the names on that list. I don't know hardly any of the names who are members of the BCA administration. They seem to be bowlers and dart people mostly.
When the BCA had its headquarter in Chicago, I attended a lot of meetings. The membership of the BCA was made up of mostly billiard supply manufacturers, and a few local pool room owners. The decisions that were made there were made by people who spent zero time in a pool room and who couldnt run 2 balls. Worse still, the people with the most influence on everything was based on who had the biggest factory. At this time Brunswick had dropped away from the BCA and the biggest magoo in the BCA was Roy Gandy, who also couldnt run 2 balls.
The chairman of the rules committee, the people who made up the BCA rulebook for the upcoming year was Nick Page. Nick owned the poolroom in Chicago, Marie's Golden Cue. Nick didnt know the five ball from a Florida orange. He determined the rules everyone was going to play by!
Then they brought a guy in from the National Sporting Goods Assn to head the BCA. He hated the job and knew less than Nick about pool.
They wanted him to run a big BCA bar tourn in Tenn. The rules hadnt been determined yet. The man was lost. He knew I was a pool player and called me to his office to consult and help him with the tourn. It was going to be a handicapped tourn, and this was the format they were originally going to go with: Playing Eight Ball, take balls off after the break. The worse the player, the more balls get taken off after the break! I finally convinced him, in my usual insulting way, that the more balls taken off helps the
better player. Instead of a spot it is even more of a handicap. He finally changed it and diverted a disaster. People wonder why pool never took off.
Beard
He is actually being fitted for a ring today. He says it's very nice and will cost multiple k's.
