European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazine briton Steve 00vfe, 29, the world mocker Champion earned $1r$ million last year. Ill snooker sell in Peoria by Steve Lohn new York times Nooker. An elaborate form of Pool played at a glacial Pace hardly seems a game destined to win Over the action addicts of America whose spading tastes lend toward Home runs knockouts and slam dunks. But that does 1 faze a Marathon running accountant named Barry Hearn. Of rom lord England who is credited with helping make the game the sports phenomenon of the 1980s in Brilain. The Only question now is whether americans Nave enough class Lor this game of snooker Hearn said. Although snooker has become the most widely watched Sporl on British television the bbl assaults viewers with nearly eight hours a Day of coverage Dunn the 17-Day world championships to is Little known in the United states. That could change soon. One of Iho stars Hearn manages. Sieve Davis. The world snooker Champion has challenged stove Mizerak a top american Pool player who also appeared in the dim the color of Money. 89 one of players who lost to Paul Newman the three Day contest in the Swiss resort town of f l Maritz with games of both snooker and Pool will be televised around the world to a potential audience o 250 million people in the United Stales three hours will be shown by delayed broadcast on esp the jul sports Cable Channel. It will be the Lisl Lime on american National television Lor snooker. We want logo global with snooker Hearn said in his spacious office in this London suburb noting that he had recently staged exhibitions in such locales As Beijing Bangkok Hong Kong and Rio do Janeiro. This fall Hearn and some of the top stars in his snooker stable plan a trip to Tokyo but you can t conquer the Woid without being in the u he added. And this could to the breakthrough in America that we be been waiting Tor " snooker is to Pool what chess is to checkers a More sophisticated and tactical game in both games the tables have six Pockels. But the snooker table is larger while the pockets and baits Are smaller snooker la 22 balls 15 red. One each Olsi dil Lerent colors and Ono Cue Hull compared Wilh the i6 poot the contest Between Davis and Misc a will include a Day of straight Pool a Day of brio Oscr and a Linal session of nine Ball Pool the player winning on two of the three Days wins Iho formal favors Mizerak. An underdog Lor once. Davis is out to make a Point. If i can win one Day of to said it Wittl prove that snooker is a Beller the global television Deal was arranged by the sports Empire of Mark Mccormack. A leading american promoter who pioneered the concept of aggressively marketing Al teleo in the 1960s, with such clients As Arnold Palmer the Mcco Macli organization like Hearn views snooker As a game with International Appeal. We re not going to Lake America by storm right away said William d synch a producer at trans world Inlo National inc., the television subsidiary of the Mccormack organization. But 4l the game is presented As a Classy family sport Tho Poi Colial is enormous " Mizurak. The 42-year-old Lormer world Pool Champion sounds sceptical 1 americans Aie used to offensive table games with a lot of balls being said Henry has overcome Ohi Tades m the past while pocket billiards commonly called Pool is on dying a cyclical revival in America it cannot compare Wilh snooker s turnaround in Britain since the Eai y 1970s, the number of snooker players in Britain has doubled to 73 million reversing decades of decline in the game a popularity. Once confined to Dingy pubs and smoke tilled men s clubs snooker is now enter Tammerl played
