14. What is the record for X?
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This article is from the Pool & Billiards FAQ, by Bob Jewett with numerous contributions by others.
14. What is the record for X?
Some of these are listed on the net. The BCA rule book has a large
section on records. A few that come up often in r.s.b:
Is the highest break at snooker 147?
No. A 147 includes 15 reds, 15 blacks, and all the colors, so it would
appear to be the maximum. If your opponent fouls with a snooker, you
may get a color for a "free ball" for your first red, and thereby get a
"16 red" clearance. About six such clearances have been recorded. The
highest snooker break is not, as previously reported, Tony Drago's and
Eddie Manning's 149s. It's Wally West's 151. He made the break in the
final of a club handicap at Hounslow Lucania in 1976 against Butch
Rogers. 155 is possible. See the snooker home page, listed above.
What is the high run at straight pool?
On March 19, 1954 at the East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio,
Willie Mosconi played an announced exhibition against Earl J. Bruney,
a local Springfield player. Mosconi pocketed 526 consecutive balls
and then missed. The table was a Brunswick 4x8. The highest run in
world championship competition was 182 by Joe Procita against Mosconi
in 1951. Irving Crane made 309 on a 5x10 in an exhibition in 1939.
The most consecutive pocketed balls was on a snooker (billiard) table
in England in 1890. William Peall made 721 consecutive red balls at
English billiards. That particular strategy is now outlawed.
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