The World's Pocket-Billiards Championship/sardi's

The World's Pocket-Billiards Championship/Sardi'sThe World's Pocket-Billiards Championship was held this past April in the chan-deliered ballroom of Manhattan's Commodore Hotel. Competing on the brilliant-green felt of two adjacent tables, a dozen crack shots took their cues in a seven-day pursuit of the title (the winner: Luther Lassiter). Watching the dinner-jacketed pool pros at solemn play was a connoisseur audience that included Playboy's LeRoy Neiman. Reports Neiman: "I was most impre...