Lincoln The Pool Shark?
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08-02-2015, 12:45 PM
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Lincoln The Pool Shark?
Students of Booth know that he frequented the pool hall of John Deery above Grover's Theatre. In reading a bit on Mr. Deery (who was an excellent billiards player), I ran across this in an article on The History of Billiards Chronology:
1864: Charles Dickens receives a billiard table for Christmas. Abraham Lincoln is a self-confessed "billiards addict." Lincoln calls the game "health-inspiring" and "scientific," lending "recreation to an otherwise fatigued mind." According to Henry C. Whitney: "Billiards, I may say, was the only non-utilitarian thing that I know of Lincoln indulging in." 1865: On April 13, John Wilkes Booth gets loaded at Deery's Billiard Saloon, owned by John Deery, before shooting Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps the only thing Abraham Lincoln and John Wilkes Booth have in common is that they both love pool. John Deery later went on to win a major billiards title away from a champion, perhaps causing the defeated man to commit suicide. Did Lincoln have a pool table in the White House? If not, was he known to shoot pool in any of the establishments in D.C. while President? |
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Lincoln The Pool Shark? - L Verge - 08-02-2015 12:45 PM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - Gene C - 08-02-2015, 01:46 PM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - L Verge - 08-02-2015, 06:03 PM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - LincolnMan - 09-27-2015, 06:43 PM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - Eva Elisabeth - 08-02-2015, 02:00 PM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - Hess1865 - 09-27-2015, 09:47 AM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - LincolnMan - 08-02-2015, 02:13 PM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - Eva Elisabeth - 08-02-2015, 03:01 PM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - RJNorton - 08-03-2015, 03:53 AM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - LincolnToddFan - 08-03-2015, 11:59 AM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - David Lockmiller - 02-07-2016, 02:47 PM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - Eva Elisabeth - 08-03-2015, 05:48 AM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - HerbS - 08-03-2015, 06:39 AM
RE: Lincoln The Pool Shark? - RJNorton - 02-07-2016, 03:18 PM
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