>I saw him run over forty several times, and it was not unusual for him to put a string together of twenty or thirty They are almost certainly talking about 14

>I saw him run over forty several times, and it was not unusual for him to put a string together of twenty or thirty They are almost certainly talking about 14:1 continuous which was far and away the most popular pocket billiards game in the 1930s,40s, and 50s. 40 is pretty good but great players regularly run over 100 and John Schmidt just ran 600+