| airhockeyjedi
- 10 Apr 2010
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http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Default/Skins/BasicArch/Client.asp?Skin=BasicArch&&AppName=2&enter=true&BaseHref=DCG/1976/04/29&EntityId=Ar00900
Very interesting article about the famous Pennsylvania Air Hockey Championships. Includes a pic of Mike Dickstein. I believe this one Mark "Rob" Robbins played in along with Jesse Douty. Don't think Pat "Spider" Wolff competed. A $25 entry fee would be more like a $100 today.
Vince Schappell
2007-2009 USAA Treasurer
USAA Member since 1980
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| airhockeyjedi
- 10 Apr 2010
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My mistake about Pat Wolff... he won the tournament and Tom Martin finished second. I posted this earlier in: http://digitalnewspapers.libraries.psu.edu/Default/Skins/BasicArch/Client.asp?Skin=BasicArch&&AppName=2&enter=true&BaseHref=DCG/1976/05/03&EntityId=Ar01201
Also see article Nov 7, 1975 about Pat Wolff winning a $5000 scholarship (That's equal to about a $20K in today's dollars!)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i9IxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HuUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1179,934384&dq=wolff+hockey&hl=en
Vince Schappell
2007-2009 USAA Treasurer
USAA Member since 1980
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| carolina phil
- 10 Apr 2010
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I saw that. He beat Rod Yamanaka from California. I saw that very match. In fact, Rod had just defeated me 7 to 6 to make me finish 3rd, and win $500, which my school gave me in cash.
I knew both these players. Pat Wolfe was a true talent; tall, lanky, quiet, scratchy bearded mumbler who smoothly guided the puck around the table, very fluid. He easily beat Rod. Rod beat both Mark Robbins (whom I had just met) and me. But he had a good day that afternoon, and was not super great. I tracked him down the next year in Los Angeles and beat him badly many games.
Jim Carter was with me in New York when Pat won. We stopped by his area in Baltimore on the way back to Houston, and had him come out and play us at his favorite bar. I beat him two out three games or so; and Jim beat him about three in a row. Next thing we knew, he was out the door without a word.
Phil A.
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| MRosen
- 10 Apr 2010
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Great stuff!! Thank you Vince & Phil!
Michael "Ricochet" Rosen
Commissioner - Major League Air Hockey
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| tableman
- 11 Apr 2010
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airhockeyjedi said:
No, I didn't play in this one. I didn't meet Jesse until fall of '76 at Doc Watson's in Philly. I played against Jesse in Dickstein's 1977 "National" which had 5 players and a $100 entry fee.
Mark
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| tableman
- 11 Apr 2010
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carolina phil said:
Jim Carter was with me in New York when Pat won. We stopped by his area in Baltimore on the way back to Houston, and had him come out and play us at his favorite bar. I beat him two out three games or so; and Jim beat him about three in a row. Next thing we knew, he was out the door without a word.
Phil A.
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Heh... when I went to Baltimore to seek out Pat "Spiderman" Wolff (in 1976 I think), his mother told me to go down to Little Italy and Pat would be hanging out on a street corner. I found him and then we met up at E.J. Bugs in Fells Point, the AH bar where Spiderman was King. I played him ONE GAME and beat him, and he disappeared. The next day I called his house and his mother said he ran all the way home from E.J. Bugs that night (some miles away).
Mark
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| carolina phil
- 12 Apr 2010
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Some people embrace the future, others run from it. Pat saw the handwritng on the table and his demise.
Odd, how some of the early big names left right while ah was getting good: Pat Wolfe, Keith Sapanski, Mike Dickstein, Jim Bill Carter, Paul Quarles, Paul Berger, Ron Hubbard, George Ray, Ed Howell, Tom Martin.
Phil
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