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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 269 Not a problem, really, unless I was ever stupid enough to play Jim for money. The only way I‟d‟ve done that would be if it was your money, „cause I knew he‟d whip my sorry ass nine ways from Sunday. Still, you can‟t play regularly with a great player and not learn something. In pool hustling, it‟s not just being the best player that makes you money. It‟s knowing who to play, and how to beat the guy. Those guys you see come into a bar with a cue stick in a case aren‟t hustlers, they‟re showoffs. Any real hustler never wants you to know how good he is, or isn‟t. I had a day of glory, and I refused to expose it to any risk after I got it. Jim Mataya married a woman who would probably be insulted if you told her she was beautiful. She‟d be offended because she‟s a lot prettier than just beautiful. Her name is Ewa, and she‟s an ABSO, (Absolute Fox). She‟s also a pretty damned good pool player. Up until I left Michigan in 1990, I used to go visit the VFW post in Grand Ledge on Tuesday evenings to drink beer and shoot pool. There was a tournament starting at seven, lasting until somewhere between ten and eleven. It was fun, and a chance to see some guys I knew, plus a guy I really liked named Dave Marion, whom I called DW. Ewa was there one night and DW told me she was ranked third in the world among women pool players. Hell, I knew she was at least third if they based it on her looks, but I saw why she was ranked that way when she played. That woman was kickin‟ ass and takin‟ names. She beat around eleventy-six guys in a row. They started calling, “Whose turn is it to lose now?” after she whipped each guy, and my name was finally called. Everyone thought it was pretty exciting, since I was considered pretty good and Ewa was about to kick my ass badly. Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 270 I beat Ewa by three balls. Then she asked me for a rematch. “Are you shittin‟ me? Who the hell do I look like, Muhammad Ali?” Ali was my hero, (still is, actually), but he hung around after he stopped being great and got his ass handed to him by punks. Now, when I‟ve just whipped the second best pool player to ever come to Grand Ledge, Michigan, (her husband, Jim, lived there for a while), she wanted me to expose my title to risk. row. What, with an asterisk next to it? Bill Cady whipped Ewa Mataya at 8-ball.* * She then was given a rematch and savaged his mangy ass thirty-eight times in a No way. Mom didn‟t raise any stupid kids until she got around to that David thing, where she really went to town, and I wasn‟t about to let that part change. I retired my crown. However, many, many years before that, I played a lot of pool. When I was playing at the House of Billiards, I became pretty good. That‟s it, just pretty good. I could go into most bars and, unless they had a local star with some real talent, beat just about anyone in the place. Whenever I came up against someone good, really good, I‟d just finish my beer and hit the road. The whole idea behind pool hustling is to make money, not to have fun playing pool, or impress someone. As soon as you impress someone, he‟ll tell a few people, which leaves you playing each guy after that for a beer. Can‟t hardly eat right with those kind of stakes. Jim Mataya could go anywhere and hustle back in the day. He‟d win big. He Leviticus, Limited 33-0505963
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