A life-long pool player, Gottier’s played professionally and picked the name of his pool room as homage to Ralph Greenleaf, a 20 time World Pocket Billiards Champion from the 1930s. Gottier said ...

pool players. Pocket billiards is another name ... his oiled hair shining like paint, Ralph Greenleaf made run after run. Once he annoyed Rudolph who, having just missed his 24th shot, complained ...

In pocket billiards (vulgarly called “pool”), pale, dark-haired Ralph Greenleaf ranks about tops ... tournament among twelve top-ranking players. In the eleventh inning of the playoff ...

MONMOUTH — First there was Ralph Greenleaf, who not only dominated ... Sage said he grew to know a lot of Greenleaf’s story, a player who was to pool in the 1920s what Babe Ruth was to ...