Lincoln The Pool Shark?

[L Verge]

There is a difference between billiards and pool.

If only Booth had heeded the warning Harold Hill gave to the people of River City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI

(Robert Preston attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles)

I've spent the past half-hour trying to read up on the differences between billiards, pool, and what seems to be the hardest cue game of all -- snookers. Still no mention of which one Lincoln played, but here's an interesting discussion online:

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com...-pool.html

It did make reference to a description of long , tall Lincoln playing the game that I had already imagined in my mind. There is one sentence that might be a clue to which game Lincoln played. It seems that billiards was preferred by the "respectable folks."