My other game was cribbage. I learned to play it from my Dad when I was very young. I played doubles with my great-grandpa, my grandpa and my dad. The National Cribbage Championships were held back in the '70's in Raleigh, NC. It was organized by a gentleman named Nick Pond who was the Sports Editor at WRAL TV in Raleigh. I think it was the 1978 ACC basketball tournament in Greensboro during a break between sessions that I challenged Nick to a match of cribbage. We were in the "press lounge" and he had just played someone else and beat them. I was photo editor of the NCSU newspaper at the time and had casually met him before, but here is this kid challenging him. He said sure. We played best two out of three and I beat him two straight. He said I was the best player he had ever met under the age of forty and on the spot invited me to play in the World Championships that Summer which was held at the Velvet Cloak Inn in Raleigh. I ended up having to turn him down because I didn't have the money or time to travel back there because I was earning summer money for school while working at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City.