The Sports Hustlers

April, 1970

Hard-Drinking, high-living Eddie (the Knoxville Bear) Taylor, a man not above challenging a destitute widow to a game of nine ball for her last loaf of bread, ran into pure and pious Irving Crane a while ago in Washington, D. C. Crane, rested and looking his usual well-groomed best, had just won the world championship in pocket billiards and was in the capital to present a series of exhibitions to local Servicemen."Hey, Irving," greeted Taylor, "what say you 'n' me drive up to Bal...