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Originally Posted by pt109
... George was also the first man to run a 150 in the World Straight Pool Championship...
...on Irving Crane....to be fair...matches used to be to 125.
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I think this was the record at the time for tournament play. There were also Championship challenge matches through the 1950s (or so). In a 1954 challenge match between Mosconi and tournament runner-up Joe Procita, they played to 2400 points in blocks of 150 points. If I decipher Charlie Ursitti's info correctly, Mosconi had two runs of 150 (unfinished) in that match. They were not continuing runs across blocks in that match, apparently. Those were the first WC runs of 150 I could find looking through Ursitti's records.
The first tournament I could find with matches to 150 was the 1949 WC that was a double round robin with Mosconi, Caras, Crane and Ponzi. Crane had the high run of 82.
