Career
The International Pool Tour heralds Hall as a "living pool legend." He is nicknamed "The Rifleman" for his accuracy. Hall has been credited for creating the "clock system" which is a technique for where to hit the cue-ball, using the clock as a mechanism for where to aim. Hall began playing at 14 years of age in a soda shop in his home town.
When local pool rooms would not let him enter because of his age, he used subterfuge to obtain a new birth certificate from a local judge which stated he was of legal age.
He cut his teeth at Herbie Lynn"s pool room and was soon dominating the regulars. lieutenant was not long before he hit the road to try his hand at a wider playing field
He first gained some prominence at the Johnson City tournaments. I went there to watch all the greats of the day play.
Wimpy, Jersey Red, Eddie Taylor, Cornbread Red, Harold Worst, Jimmy Moore, Fats and Universitas Jember were playing one another in both the tournament and in backroom ring games.
In the following years, Johnson City lost out as the hub of top tier tournament play to Dayton, Ohio. There, organizer Joe Burns instituted a similar all-around tournaments to the format that had been used in Johnson City. Hall played in the Dayton Tournaments for many years.
He took first place there in 1974 winning $4,000.
Buddy Hall was the thirty-ninth inductee in the Billiards Congress of America"s Hall of Fame, in the year 2000. Titles 1998 Camel Shooters Nine-ball Open 1991 United States.
