Harold John Worst (1929 – June 16, 1966) was an American three-cushion billiards champion. He won multiple World Three-Cushion Championships, his first in

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

in 1954, the youngest player to ever win the tournament, at the age of 24. Also he was equally skilled at pocket billiards and Worst dominated play to win the All-Around titles in both the 1965 Johnston City Championship and the 1965 Stardust Open championships. Two months before Worst died he competed in the 1966

World Straight Pool Championship The World Straight Pool Championship is a pool competition, that was held up until the game of Nine-ball became popularized in America. It was the most prestigious straight pool tournament up until the early 21st century, tournaments like the Ameri ...

and finished 4th. He was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1970. He died in Blodgett Memorial Hospital in

Grand Rapids, Michigan Grand Rapids is a city and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, Kent County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,917 which ranks it as the List of municipalities in Mi ...

, of Lymphoma. He spent his life in Grand Rapids and he was 37 years old when he died.

Career titles & achievements

* 1954 World Three-Cushion Championship * 1957 World Three-Cushion Championship * 1960 World Three-Cushion Championship * 1961 World Three-Cushion Championship * 1963 Michigan State

Nine-ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...

Championship * 1963 Michigan State

Straight Pool Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in professional ...

Championship * 1963 Michigan State One Pocket Championship * 1964 Michigan State

Snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...

Championship * 1965

Johnston City Johnston City is a city in Williamson County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,348 at the 2020 census. This was a center of coal mining in the early 20th century, having a peak of population in the 1920s. The mining jobs attracted man ...

Championship * 1965

Straight pool Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in professional ...

Championship * 1965

All-Around Championship * 1965 Stardust Open One Pocket Championship * 1965 Stardust Open All-around Championship * 1965 National Billiard News Achievement Award * 1970 Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame

References

1929 births 1966 deaths People from Grand Rapids, Michigan {{billiards-bio-stub