Hot Shots

Hot ShotsAnyone Blundering into a certain billiard room in Hamburg, Germany, in the year 1800 might have heard the owner of the joint make an apparently preposterous claim. He said he could pocket a ball by jumping it from one table to another. Betting against him, of course, was folly, for he had mastered one of the first recorded trick shots. Yet you can be sure that someone always took him up on his proposition, if only to see him do it. Because then, as now, people just love to watch a gifte...