Shoot-Out In Johnston City

November, 1970

Shoot-Out in Johnston CityThere are some worlds in which the spoken truth isn't welcome or necessary. Professional pocket billiards is one. In a room with a pool table and a couple of hustlers, the truth is a silly abstraction. Around high-stakes pool, everybody lies about everything, to everyone, loudly or quietly, but nonstop and with style.And it works. A tight society of pool hustlers--the best 100 or so players in the country--hangs together, perpetuates itself, sees very many arguments, ve...