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[aid] => mick
[title] => The eyes have it
[time] => 2011-06-15 02:38:53
[hometext] => The 1938 County snooker championship - nearly 100 competitors enter and are eliminated - 2 are left - one has one eye, the other is cock-eyed (my G/father) - believe it - it could only happen in real life - have records to prove it.
[bodytext] => * * * * The lights hang low - the room a smoke-filled haze and snooker buffs are gathered round the baize. All bets are laid, but will the crowd endear to these two unlikely gladiators here? The one-eyed and the cock-eyed take the stage, look eye-to-eye and up the pressure gauge. The first one - simply known as 'One-eyed Hugh.' The second one is 'Glad-eyes Pete Magoo!' A nine-frame match - the referee declares. The first to win five frames - the Plate is theirs. ''If they're the best'' (a punter's heard to claim) ''the losers must be colour-blind or lame!'' The balls are set, the first frame's underway and disparate eyes are fixed upon the play. They're stunned! It's mesmerising snooker skill! In ninety minutes one-eye leads four-nil. For glad-eyes Pete the county prize looks lost, the time is now to win a quick riposte. Four-two, four-three, four-all - they're on their feet! The final frame - the tension, sweat, and heat! But glad-eyes Pete is ticking like a bomb and takes that final frame with great aplomb. Proud to praise my forebear's name in print, but overjoyed I haven't got his squint! ------ [comments] => 4 [counter] => 243 [topic] => 51 [informant] => spud [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Event )
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