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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 3377794, member: 24633"]My favorite games are One Pocket and 3-Cushion Billiards. I started playing in 1956 in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area at the age of 9, and Straight Pool (14-1) was the first game I learned to play. By the time I was 13, I could run 100 balls most of the time.  "Ball-in-hand" was commonplace for 9-Ball in the 60's. I was also a National Referee within the Billiard Congress of America (BCA) organization for 10 years, and "ball-in-hand" became part of the World Standardized Rules in the late 90's. Trust me! It takes just as much skill and thinking to play within these rules as it does to play under the old system. Yes, jumping balls in any form used to be illegal, but it was eventually recognized as a skill shot in the early 90's as long as you were "shooting down" on the cue ball rather than "scooping" the cue ball. Congratulations to your daughter! Amateur leagues can be a lot of fun. I played for many, many years in BCA (mostly), Valley National Eight-Ball Association (VNEA) and American Poolplayers Association (APA) leagues. I agree! There are a lot of men who hate to lose a game of pool to a woman. All I can say to that is that they have never played against women, the likes of Allison Fisher, Jeanette Lee, Jean Balukas, Vivian Villarreal (The Texas Tornado), Karen Corr, etc. I have! They are all world champions. Chris[/QUOTE]