By BILL DUFFIELD

Times Editor

bduffield@tcnewsnet.com

There will be an attempt at a world’s record the weekend of Feb. 26-28. For three days, 10 local men will be rackin’ them up, chalkin’ the cue and attempting to play 53 straight hours in their effort to break a Guinness World Record for the longest consecutive billiard game.

The five two-man teams will make their attempt at Malarkey’s Pub at 5928 Airway Rd. in Riverside.

“This will be an interesting few days,” Bill Erby of Kettering, one of the team members, said. “Trying to stay up three days is definitely a challenge.”

Erby, 42, will team with his 21-year-old son, Josh, as one team. The other teams will be Neil Faulkner, 36, and Scott Himes, 45; Aaron Spaulding, 29, and Jack Matthews, 30; Randy Potter, 51, and Josh Potter, 29; and Kevin Burris, 43, and Andrew Burris, 21.

“Guinness has given us permission to make an attempt to break the longest billiard play record,” Faulkner said. ‘We are following their rules and regulations on record breaking.”

Those rules include that each player is required to be checked by a registered nurse every four hours during the attempt. The players must be at the tables at all times except for five minutes per hour.

“We must video tape all five pool tables the entire time of the event,” Faulkner said. “A log book must be kept the entire time of the event with proof of two witnesses.”

The current world record was set in October 2008 by Brian Lilley and Dan Maloney in Spring Lake, NC when they set the record at 52 hours.