Joe Davis Interview 1977

[spike]

The great Joe Davis talks frankly about his career, with some rare archive footage of Joe in his younger days..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iykn908nMfI&feature=plcp

[narl]

Gonna watch this later, should be interesting. Bugs me the bbc have all this match footage in their archives but its literally unobtainable

[choice]

The great Joe Davis talks frankly about his career, with some rare archive footage of Joe in his younger days..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iykn908nMfI&feature=plcp

The great joe Davis.
made a 100 break at 12years of age.

[mythman69]

"100 break in billiards of course"

Thanks for the link . . .

[fateric]

Bloody fantastic video. What great speakers those old lads were...intelligent, witty and all with a sly gleam in their eye. I thoroughly enjoyed that video, in fact it made my day:-)

[Cyril]

Always loved this documentary. Lovely to listen to the great Willie Smith, who is considered to be the finest "all round" billiard player ever. He would have been about 90 at the time of this interview. I like the way he describes the way he and Tom Reece "slid out [of the Hall] again and he didn't know he'd been under scrutiny".

[LittleMissAlexa]

Davis was the best alround cueist in history in my opinion

[Cyril]

Davis didn't really use "all round" billiards that heavily. He was a nursery specialist, as were Lindrum, Newman and McConachy.

[LittleMissAlexa]

most successful in billiards and snooker combined hence all round cueist remember only the davis brothers have ever won the billiards and snooker world championships double

[Cyril]

In that sense, I would agree, Joe was the complete player. Highly unlikely that anyone else will ever do the World Billiards and Snooker double.