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	John Spencer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Spencer is a former Scottish football player.
		John Spencer (1935-2006) was an English snooker player.
		John Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782-1845) was a British politician.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Spencer (160 words)

	John Spencer (snooker player) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spencer was born in Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, England.
		Ironically, Spencer had himself made a 147 at a televised event several years earlier, but the cameramen were on their tea break and the table and ball set were not at the correct standard.
		Spencer was also a commentator on snooker for BBC television for many years, and was chairman of the WPBSA for six years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Spencer_(snooker_player) (344 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| John Spencer
		The snooker player John Spencer, who won the world title at his first attempt in 1969 - then took it again 18 months later, and repeated the feat in 1977, the first year the championship was staged at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre - has died of stomach cancer aged 70.
		Spencer made his first century break when he was 15, but remained a strictly local hero as the game was in the doldrums.
		Spencer's career and life were shattered on May 9 1985 when he woke up with double vision, quickly diagnosed as myasthenia gravis, the disease which, in his case, had caused a deterioration of his eye muscles.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1818947,00.html (916 words)

	John Spencer - TheBestLinks.com - England, Soccer, Snooker, The Netherlands, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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		John Spencer is an American actor in series such as L.A. Law and The West Wing.
		John Spencer is a professional soccer player in Major League Soccer, playing for the Colorado Rapids.
	www.thebestlinks.com /John_Spencer.html (132 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - John Spencer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		JOHN Spencer, who died of stomach cancer on Tuesday, enjoyed his swan song in 1977 when, ranked only eighth and last in the tournament, he outfoxed Cliff Thorburn in the final to lift his third and final world title after a gap of seven years.
		Spencer was ranked 16th in 1984 when his sight was first affected by double vision, a condition brought on by myasthenia gravis, a deterioration of the eye muscle.
		Spencer acted as television pundit for the BBC for 15 years and was chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association from 1990 to 1996 and a member of its board of directors.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=1017732006 (962 words)

	snooker
		Scoring strokes in a players turn are made by potting reds and colours alternately until all reds are off the table and then the colours in the ascending order of their value.
		The winner of the frame is the player or side, making the highest score; or to whom the frame is conceded; or to whom it is awarded due to unfair conduct from the opponent.
		If a player feels more comfortable with his hand in a particular position, is able to send the cue along a straight line, can get well through the cue ball, and with that grip is capable of playing all the shots needed, quite simply that is the correct grip for him.
	www.windersports.net /snookering.html (3502 words)

	Snooker - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
		In snooker, when the cue ball is played into the pack of reds for the opening break, must a certain number of reds come into contact with a cushion in order for the break to be legal?
		In snooker a player attempts to pot a red but leaves it on the edge of the pocket.
		The second player then takes aim on another red, but as he is about to play the first ball falls into the pocket.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/Sports/Snooker-11308.html (424 words)

	Alex Higgins Tribute - The Championship Years
		During the fifties and sixties snooker suffered a lengthy decline in its fortunes, primarily due to the lack of positive marketing and promotion but also because of the lack of new players for viewers to watch.
		There was little or no snooker coverage in the national press and the national game was seemingly more interested in developing amateur stars, rather than the six active professional players at this time.
		Spencer was the pre-match favourite but Higgins was in superb form and playing with huge confidence.
	www.fcsnooker.co.uk /al_higgins/alex_higgins_tribute.htm (1864 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Other Sport... \| Snooker \| Snooker legend Spencer dies at 71 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Snooker legend John Spencer has died at the age of 71 after a long battle against stomach cancer.
		Ray Edmonds, another contemporary, said of Spencer: "He was a witty and cheerful character.
		Spencer, who became the first player to compile a competitive 147 break, was a former chairman of the game's governing body.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/5171212.stm (256 words)

	Snooker legend John an inspiration
		IT was both upsetting and inspiring to read snooker legend John Spencer's words about making the most of his last few months.
		John, aged 69, has terminal stomach cancer, and plans to leap out of a "plane for charity".
		John has achieved much in his life, both as a snooker player and as a human being.
	archive.thisislancashire.co.uk /2005/7/14/866020.html (154 words)

	The Dead Pool: John Spencer ....snooker legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		SNOOKER legend "Gentleman John" Spencer has given up on life-saving cancer treatment because he wants to "die happy".
		John, 69, dubbed "Gentleman John" for his image as the sport's Mr Nice Guy, was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2003.
		John said a fall after leaving hospital two months ago left him with a damaged hip and he needed crutches to walk.
	deadpool.isfullofcrap.com /oldcrap/2006/04/john_spencer_sn.html (382 words)

	WWW Snooker: World Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This was not in a tournament but was witnesses by two A Grade players, one of whom is a NZ representative and the other is a Referee.
		Jamie is a professional snooker player from Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire, England, and was 17 years old at the time.
		Four consecutive century breaks were first compiled in a major tournament by John Higgins: 103, 104, 138 and 128, in Preston, England on Sun 16th October 2005.
	www.snooker.org /plr/records.shtml (1625 words)

	Snooker News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It is, however, voguish to condemn snooker as ailing - as a newspaper did yet again in a large spread yesterday.
		There’s no row within the Billiards and Snooker Congress of the Philippines (BSCP) except the mess which its secretary general is trying to create, the chair and president of the premier billiards organiza...
		SNOOKER legend John Spencer has spoken about the one battle he cannot win —...
	archive.wn.com /2005/02/20/1400/snookernews (665 words)

	Sporting Life - Embassy World Snooker Championship 2000
		It was a case of onward Kristjan soldiers at the Newport Centre as Iceland's top snooker player moved to within three victories of a debut in the televised stage of the Embassy World Championship.
		Kristjan Helgason, the world number 104, hammered John Lardner 10-2 in the fifth qualifying round, his second straight success this week, and now faces 1986 champion Joe Johnson for a place in the last 64 of the game's leading event.
		Brjnmar Valdimarsson, whose distinguishing feature was his wooden leg, beat John Spencer 6-3 in the first round of the 1991 World Masters in Birmingham.
	www.sportinglife.com /snooker/worldchampionship2000/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=others/00/03/15/SNOOKER_World_Nightlead.html (476 words)

	The Hindu : Coming out of the convulsions
		Spencer was a wonderful snooker player but I would struggle to place him in the ranks of those whose gifts of mind and heart extend beyond the confines of a billiards table.
		From the 60s till the late 1980s it was decided that four-hour matches were a fair test of who was the best player in a tournament, and the four-hour match came to be accepted as the standard for both the amateur and the newly resurrected professional game.
		But in the U.K., with snooker now in its best phase, the Committee took the view that something radical still needed to be done to satisfy the British public who were accustomed to the crash-bang-wallop of the 22 ball game.
	www.hindu.com /2000/11/04/stories/0704015j.htm (1272 words)

	Snooker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jimmy White, nicknamed the Whirlwind, is one of the world's leading snooker players.
		Alex "Hurricane" Higgins was a professional snooker player from Northern Ireland in the seventies and early eighties.
		A popular player with the viewers, he went on to be an equally popular team captain on BBC's 'Question of Sport'.
	www.ministars.co.uk /snookernew.htm (301 words)

	Sport \| Eddie Charlton
		While he was still a miner, he became a snooker professional in 1963 at the age of 33, winning the Australian title the following year and remaining champion every year except one until 1985.
		He never reached a Crucible final, but with Reardon, John Spencer and Alex Higgins all out of the way, he lost an epic 1979 semi-final, which kept BBC running to 1.40am, 19-17 to Terry Griffiths, who became champion at his first attempt.
		Although Charlton continued to compete until 1995, resisting the erosion of talent with an unremitting practice and physical fitness regime, he was never again a contender, although at billiards, which was very much his second game, he came agonisingly close to becoming world champion in 1984.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5058176-108678,00.html (670 words)

	The Global Snooker Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Although he never won a major ranking tournament, ‘Steady’ Eddie Charlton was one of the most consistent and hard to beat players from the late 1960s to mid 1980s being ranked at number three for five successive seasons and three times runner-up in the world championships at both snooker and billiards.
		His brother Jim was also a professional snooker player but never joined the world ranks.
		In 1972 he reached the world semi-final again losing to John Spencer and won the BBC Pot Black title which he retained the following year, setting a high break record for that event of 110 which was never to be bettered.
	www.globalsnookercentre.co.uk /files/Players/Global_Oceania/Australia/aus_eddie_charlton.htm (739 words)

	WWW Snooker: Steve Davis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		He was the No.1 player in the eighties, before Hendry came along.
		Davis is one of only five players to win both the World Championship and the UK Championship in the same year.
		Together with Stephen Hendry and John Higgins he is also the only one to hold the World, UK and Masters titles at the same time.
	www.snooker.org /plr/bio/sdavis.shtml (180 words)

	BBC - Wales - Snooker
		Gone are the days where the likes of fifty-somethings John Spencer and Ray Reardon were winning tournaments.
		Also long gone are the dark and dingy billiard halls, replaced by stylish, modern snooker and pool clubs with satellite television, jukeboxes, air conditioning, hot food and resident professionals to give advice and coaching.
		My son enjoys playing snooker and would like to take it further, I'm finding it difficult though to find out about coaching in the Mid Wales area and would be grateful for any suggestions, thanks.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/sport/community/pages/snooker.shtml (825 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Masters of the Baize: Cue Legends, Bad Boys and Forgotten Men in Search of Snooker's Ultimate Prize: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The authors in their introduction note that "snooker has been one of the few sports to miss out on the recent boom in sports-related publishing".
		Patsy Houlihan [was] the sort of player who could have reinvigorated snooker in the 1950s and '60s if he had been encouraged to turn professional." What they omit to say is that Joe Davis held the game in such an iron grip at that time, that those players he did not personally approve of (e.g.
		As Clive Everton notes in "The History of Snooker & Billiards" (p.64), Joe Davis' lack of foresight in failing to bring in new professionals was not in snooker's long-term interests and was part of the reason the sport almost died in the '50s and '60s.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1840188723 (827 words)

	Online Poker Forum :: Forum : Snooker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		My favorite player of all time has to be Alex Higgins who was an awesome player in his day but also is an absolute lunatic which has annoyed Snooker governing bodies for many years.My all time top 10 would have to be as follows:-
		John Spencer - One of the best in his time plus I used to play in his club.
		Apparently a top poker player in Europe who also happens to be a pro snooker player.
	www.pokerjunkie.com /name-forum-viewtopic-t-286.html (1349 words)

	Snooker champion Charlton dies - Sport - www.theage.com.au
		Australia's greatest snooker player Eddie Charlton died in New Zealand today, eight days after his 75th birthday.
		Charlton, who learned to play the game as a child in his grandfather's snooker parlour in the Hunter Valley coal town of Swansea, was Australian professional champion 20 times.
		He was a useful tennis, cricket and soccer player and a talented amateur boxer who once went a few rounds with world champion Dave Sands to raise money for his surf club.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/11/08/1099781315583.html?from=storylhs (612 words)

	Why do they throw stones? - Unicyclist Community
		Fair enough John, I'll admit that not all of those who play rugby are a**holes.
		Its just really noticable when rugby players are the only ones who throw rocks, and therefore easily classified into the a**hole bracket.
		Snooker - like pool - cues, 8 balls and the like....therefore a snooker player is someone who plays snooker.
	www.unicyclist.com /forums/showthread.php?t=24062 (889 words)

	Where are they now...?
		He had met John Spencer in Canada and the former World Champion advised Cliff to come to England to improve his game.
		I assured him that if he produced in tournaments, the same snooker he had played against me that evening, he would be a fool to give it up.
		The other great thing you got with Cliff Thorburn was that he was an overseas player and it gave Snooker that International flavour, which is very important to any sport if you want to be recognised worldwide.
	www.johnvirgo.com /thorburn.asp (585 words)

	Who is the best Snooker Player ever ? - Sheffield Forum
		Snooker is next, who is your favs players and why, this was hard one, as I had 12 names to choose from and can only pick 10, I have gone on the No1 world rankings and who has won the most, and who is a crowd puller.
		Yes Ronnie is a brilliant player, and always good to watch, in many ways he is like Jimmy White, both brill and fast.
		Ronnie is too far up his own arse imo, altho an amzing player he just not got the consistency.
	www.sheffieldforum.co.uk /showthread.php?p=863731 (762 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Behind the White Ball: My Autobiography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Jimmy White has been beaten six times in the final of the snooker world championship and on at least two of those occasions it was easier for him to have won than lost.
		Thoroughly interesting starting with Jimmy hanging out in the local snooker hall when he should have been in school, breaking his leg and then playing snooker with the walking stick, playing the amateur circuit and finally to his professional status.
		For the armchair sporting public, Jimmy White remains an icon of the days when snooker was fun, when players knocked back the vodkas instead of poncy mineral water, and when they hit the front pages as often as the back ones.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099271842 (1690 words)

	Cues n Views - The Elusive Fifty Break
		I remember when even professional snooker players received a round of applause for making a fifty break in competition.
		I can remember achieving my first fifty break in a friendly game against a good player called Geoff, he had a smooth, easy cue action and when he was younger had achieved much at the amateur level of snooker.
		At strategic points he offered quiet reassuring advice and the break went on to fifty-seven, for the last few balls, he refused to tell me the score, he was an honest snooker player and wouldn’t be able to bring himself to lie.
	www.cuesnviews.co.uk /Views/elusivefiftybreak.htm (842 words)

	Snooker great Eddie Charlton dies in NZ - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Australia's greatest snooker player Eddie Charlton died in New Zealand on Monday, eight days after his 75th birthday.
		Charlton grew up in the Hunter Valley and worked as a coal miner for 15 years before becoming a professional snooker player.
		He was a useful tennis and soccer player and a talented amateur boxer who once went a few rounds with world champion Dave Sands to raise money for his surf club.
	www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/news/breaking-news/snooker-great-eddie-charlton-dies-in-nz/2004/11/08/1099781313577.html (520 words)

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