Crane vs Caras 2 of 3

Fantastic pool action from two gentlemen exemplary of their time and of the game in general.
Said Mr. Caras:
''I'd come home from high school with books under my arm,'' Caras told Ira Berkow of The New York Times last year. ''I'd walk in and Dad would say, 'I want you to play someone for $100.' One time he lined up this $100 match and I peeked in the cash register and saw only $35. I said, 'Dad, what if I lose?' He said, 'You won't lose.' Talk about pressure.'
Mr. Crane's fascination with billiards started at age 11, sparked by play on a toy pool table his brother received as a Christmas gift. Showing interest and ability, his father Scott Crane, a trial lawyer and sportsman, and his mother, a high school teacher, soon replaced their dining room table with a 4' by 8' pool table. He soon ventured out of the home to practice a couple days each week at Olympic Billiards, a room that was part of a bowling alley in Scottsville, a suburb of Rochester, New York. Crane stated in 1998: "Other kids, you know they'd play for twenty minutes or half an hour and they'd say, 'let's do something else.' I could play all day and never get enough. I couldn't wait to get home from school to play."

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Crane, 150 and out ! that's what I remember from Mr. Crane .