INDEX
- Aberdovey slates, 73
- Albert Club, 48
- Albo-carbon light, 66, 67
- American handicaps, 40, 43;
- Angle, half-ball or natural, 101–103, 123–124;
- Aquarium. See Royal Aquarium
- Association, Billiard. See Billiard Association
- Attitude, 107
- Balls, billiard, 86–92;
- treatment of, 87–88;
- weight, 87n;
- gauge, 89;
- tests of, 90;
- bonzoline, 91–92;
- cast steel, 92;
- dummy, 101;
- definition of, 105;
- motion, &c., and division of, 130–141;
- impact of, 164–168;
- rotation of, 189–214;
- surface of, 193;
- friction of, on cloth, 193;
- transmitted side, 194; 443;
- different qualities of ivory and bonzoline, 266–267;
- light, 322
- Bartley, Mr., 6, 9
- Basket, pool, 101, 253–254
- Baulk, meaning of the term, 105;
- ‘Baynard Castle,’ 43
- Bedford, Mr., 9
- Bell’s Life, 19;
- Bennett, Alfred, in handicaps, 36, 38, 40, 41, 47;
- death, 38n
- Bennett, Fred, 36, 38
- Bennett, John, 36, 38
- Bennett, Joseph 4;
- his manual, 4;
- in a four-handed match with John Roberts, sen., 26; 29;
- beats Roberts, jun., and beaten by him, 34; 35, 36, 40, 41, 43, 44;
- beaten by Roberts, jun., 50;
- beats Cook for championship, 46;
- defeats Taylor for championship, 47;
- Shorter forfeits for championship, 47;
- introduction of angle for private practice, 124; 266, 370
- Bentinck Club, 24, 27
- Billiard Association of Great Britain and Ireland standard tables, 70, 71, 362;
- ‘Billiard Book,’ Captain Crawley’s, on pyramids, 391;
- essay on the marker, 445
- ‘Billiard Review,’ quoted, on the Association Rules, 375
- Billiard-rooms, 55–57;
- Billiard-tables, 5, 10, 11, 15, 69;
- pockets, 69;
- Billiard Association legislation, 70;
- Standard Association tables, 71;
- cost, 72;
- ordinary, 73;
- championship, 73, 83, 362–373;
- frames, 73;
- slates, 73–77;
- plan of table in diagram, 74, 75;
- cushions, 77–79;
- cloths, 79–80;
- setting up the table, 79–83;
- brushing and ironing, 83–84;
- undersized, 84;
- spot stroke, 85;
- French tables, 85;
- hiring, 85;
- automatic returner, 86;
- few in London clubs fit for play, 207;
- easy and difficult—in training, 306
- Billiard terms in use, 105–107
- Black and pink pool, description of game, 423;
- Black pool, 408, 418;
- Blind pockets, playing hazards into, 146, 150
- Bonzoline balls, 91;
- Bouclée, formation of the bridge, 109, 129
- Bowles, Alfred, 23;
- Boyd, Mr. A. H., 3;
- Break, definition of, 105;
- higher signification of, 300;
- average—in classifying players, 302;
- personal questions: luck and nerve, 303–306;
- advice to players who cannot undertake close study, 307–313;
- advice to a higher class of players, 313;
- Mr. Boyd’s advice to moderate players, 315–325;
- — at the top of the table, by Mr. Rimington-Wilson, 325–348;
- nursery cannons, 348–361
- Breaking the balls, explanation of the phrase, 105
- Bricole, utility of, 172;
- Bridge, the term, 105;
- Brighton, Kentfield’s Subscription Rooms at, 10
- Broughton, Tom, beaten by Roberts, sen., 16
- Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. the, cited, 212, 440
- Brushing tables, 83
- Buchanan, J. P., 266
- Buckland, Frank, test for balls, 90
- ‘Bumble-puppy,’ 430
- Burners, gas, for billiard-rooms, 67
- Burroughes and Watts, aid from, 4, 55;
- Butts, 97
- Cannons, plain, 172–186;
- Carr, John, 5;
- Carter, Eugene, American player, 53
- Cathire More, King of Ireland, his brass billiard balls, 4
- Chalk, 83, 87, 98, 384;
- St. Martin, 99
- Championship, the, &c., 362–373;
- Mr. Russell D. Walker’s memorandum on, 367–370
- Championship matches, remarks concerning, 362–366;
- list of, 373
- Championship table, the, 73, 83;
- Chimneys of lamps for lighting billiard-rooms, 66
- Close screws, method of playing, 250
- Cloths for billiard-tables, 79;
- Club billiard-rooms, 56;
- over-ironing of cloth in, 207
- Coles, Harry, 48, 49
- Collins, George, 36, 38, 39, 48
- Combination tables, 85
- Compensation in play, 260
- Composition balls, 91
- Cook, William, 20, 23, 24;
- Roberts, sen.’s opinion of, 25;
- first match with and defeat by Roberts, jun., 27;
- beats him later, 28;
- rapid rise, 28;
- beats Roberts, sen., for championship, 29–31;
- remarkable breaks, 33, 34;
- loses championship to Roberts, jun., 33, 41;
- zenith of his career, 34; 35, 36;
- wins handicap, 36; 39, 40;
- beaten by Roberts, jun., 41, 42, 43, 46;
- beaten by Joseph Bennett in championship match, 46;
- beats and beaten by Roberts, jun., 47, 50;
- unrivalled style, 120;
- on the spot stroke, 265, 266, 268;
- strength and execution, 370;
- pool record, 412
- ‘Cork Marker,’ the, his match with Carr, 9
- Cork pool, description of, 429;
- Corrugated iron billiard-rooms, 59
- Cotton’s ‘Compleat Gamester,’ 5
- Country-house games, 429–432
- Coup, to run a, explanation of phrase, 105
- Coups durs, 105, 230
- Cover, meaning of the term, 105
- Crawley, Captain, on pyramids, 391;
- quotation about marker from his billiard book, 445
- Cues, &c., 93–103;
- Cunningham, Colonel Allan, R.E., aid from, 3
- Cushion-crawling, 283
- Cushion nursery cannons, 348–361;
- breaks of — often spurious, 363
- Cushions, 77;
- Davis, George, 25
- Dawson, Charles, 49, 51, 120;
- Defensive play, where advisable, 283
- Diagrams, explanation of, 138–139
- Diggle, Edward, 51, 120, 367
- Double baulk, 105
- Doubles, value of, 150;
- Drag strokes, 116, 196;
- used to overcome irregularities in ball or bed, 197
- Dufton, John, 20
- Dufton, William, ‘tutor to the Prince of Wales,’ 20;
- Dufton’s ‘Practical Billiards,’ on skittle pool, 435
- Dummy balls, 101
- Egan, Pierce, 9
- Egyptian Hall, 51
- Electric light in billiard-rooms, 61, 66, 67
- Elementary instruction, 104;
- mode of entering room, 104;
- technical terms, 104–106;
- attitudes, 107;
- formation of bridge, 108, 109;
- the bridge bouclée, 109, 129;
- cue delivery, 109;
- practice with one ball, 110–115;
- strength, 112;
- use of the rest, 113–115;
- use of the half-butt and long-butt, 115;
- Mr. Pontifex’s memorandum, 115–129;
- a remarkable amateur feat, 116, 126
- English butt, 93
- Erection of billiard-table, 80
- Etiquette of the billiard-room, 3, 104, 388, 440–442
- Evans, Harry, 25, 26;
- champion of Australia, 39
- Feather stroke, 370
- Fleming, John, defeats Roberts, sen., 16
- Follow, the, importance of, 194;
- Forcing hazards, 170
- Ford, Mr., on markers, 428; 445
- Foul, definition of a, 105
- Four-handed game, a bad school, 318;
- a substitute for, 439
- Fowler, Mr. W. H., his outside billiard-room, 59, 103
- French butt, 93
- French players on the game, 1
- Gaiety Restaurant, matches at, 41, 43
- ‘Game of Billiards,’ Kentfield’s, 10
- Gas in billiard-rooms, 61
- Gate-money, 365, 366
- Gibbs, Mr. A., his billiard-room at Tyntesfield, 61
- Gillows’ tables, 15
- Green, W. E., 25, 53
- Guildhall Tavern, matches at, 37
- Half-butts, 97
- Half-push, the, 228
- Handicaps, 36, 39;
- Hazards, winning, 142–153; 320, 404;
- Herst, John, 21, 22, 25
- Hiring billiard-tables, 85
- Hitchin, W. C., 25
- Hughes, Alfred, 25, 26, 36, 39
- Hughes, Charles, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 367
- Impact, divergence between point of aim and point of, 133–135;
- Implements of the game, 55 et seq.
- In hand, definition of the term, 105
- Incandescent gas light, 66
- India-rubber cushions, 77
- Ironing billiard-table cloths, 79, 83
- Ives, Frank, his matches with Roberts, jun., 53, 365, 372;
- Ivory balls, 86;
- Jennies, 160;
- method of playing, 239
- Jump stroke, 250
- Kentfield, Edwin (otherwise Jonathan), champion, 10;
- Kilkenny, Lewis, 25, 36, 38, 40
- Kiss, the term explained, 105;
- Knightsbridge, matches at, 53
- Ladies, billiards as a game for, 440
- Lamps, oil, for lighting billiard-rooms, 66
- Leap stroke, method of making, 250
- Lighting billiard-rooms, 66, 83
- Lloyd, winner of 1895 Association Tournament, 54
- Long-butts, 97
- Losing hazards, short and long, 153–172;
- Luck in playing, 303
- MʻNeil, Hugh, 51
- Mannock, J. P., 52
- Mardon, Mr., writer on billiards, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20
- Marker, duties of the, 412, 414, 415, 428, 445;
- services should be devoted to game and players alone, 446
- Marking-boards, 99;
- nickel-plated, 100
- Massé stroke, method of playing, 255, 353
- Matches, championship, 373
- Measurements in billiards, approximate, 146;
- how made, 147
- Memmott, Charles, champion of Australia, 26, 39;
- Miss, must be played with the point of cue, 284
- Miss-cue, meaning of the term, 106
- Mitchell, William, 43–46;
- Mode of entering a billiard-room, 104, 441
- Morris, Tom, 25, 26, 39
- Moss, W., 35
- Mulberry, George, 25
- Nap of cloth, effect of playing with or against, 193, 207, 208, 270
- Nearest ball pool, 431
- ‘Nell Gwynne,’ Strand, match at, 24
- Nerve in playing, 3, 305–306
- North, John, his style, 47, 48, 119
- Nursery cannons, 348–361;
- value of — on three-inch pocket table, 363
- Oil lamps for lighting billiard-rooms, 66
- One-ball practice. See Elementary instruction
- Oriental Club, plan of room, 57, 62
- Orme & Sons, their automatic arrangement for returning balls, 86; 323
- Over-caution in playing, evils of, 318
- Partie Américaine dite du cadre, 364
- Peall, W. J., aid from, 4; 44;
- Peall cushion rest, 98 n.
- Pendleton, Tom, 16
- Penrhyn slates, 73
- Pipeclay for marking baulk-lines, 83
- Piqué strokes, mode of playing, 256
- Plain strokes, 142–188
- Plan of billiard-table, 74, 75
- Plants, definition of, 106;
- Players, system of classifying, 302;
- Pneumatic cushions, 79
- Pockets of billiard-tables, 11, 69;
- Pontifex, Mr. Dudley D., aid from, 3;
- Pook, John, Kentfield’s manager, 18
- Pool basket, 101, 253–254
- Pool, importance of playing for position in, 145;
- useful as winning hazard practice, 320;
- description of the game, 408;
- rules and penalties, 410;
- safety and hazards, 411;
- starring, 411;
- playing for cannons, 411;
- measuring distances, 412;
- marker’s duty, 412;
- the opening stroke, 412;
- Cook’s record, 412;
- doubles, 150, 400, 413;
- story concerning consecutive doubles, 413;
- anecdote about sharpers, 413, 414;
- for other varieties of the game, see Black pool, Black and pink, Cork, Nearest ball, Selling, Single, Skittle, Snooker, Three-pool
- Porker, Mr., his match with Mr. Mardon, 12
- Position mère, 329; 351
- ‘Practical Billiards,’ Dufton’s, on skittle pool, 435
- Pratt, his style, 9;
- match with a stranger, 10
- Precautions in play, 259
- Prince of Wales, the, See Wales, Prince of
- Prince of Wales’s Hotel, Moss Street, Manchester, matches at, 28
- Professionals, rate of scoring, 307
- Push stroke, the, 52;
- Pyramids, 33;
- importance of playing for position in, 145;
- general hints concerning, 388;
- salient points of the game, 389;
- rules regarding, 390;
- handicapping players, 390;
- setting up the balls, 391;
- ways of playing the first stroke, 391;
- safety, 392;
- making a series of hazards, 392;
- plants and doubles, 394;
- when the object ball is close to a cushion, 396;
- useful strokes, 396–406;
- good break by an Undergraduate, 407
- Queen’s Club, 116
- Quill stroke, 370
- Rebound following impact, 164, 167
- Referees, duties of, 444
- Rencontres, 105, 230
- Rests, 98, 115
- Richards, matches with Roberts, sen., 367
- Richards, D., 25, 27, 41, 120
- Right-angled screw, the, 198
- Rimington-Wilson, Mr. R. H. R., aid from, 4;
- Roberts, John, jun., 11, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28;
- beats Cook for the championship, 33;
- beats A. Bowles, 33;
- beaten by Joseph Bennett, 34;
- defeats Bennett, 33, 34; 40;
- again beats Cook for championship, 41; 43, 46;
- in India, 47;
- defeats and is beaten by Cook, 47; 48;
- beaten by Peall, 49;
- beats Cook and Joseph Bennett for championship, 50;
- beats Mitchell, 50;
- beaten by Peall, spots only, 50;
- challenged by Peall, 51;
- his wonderful play, 51;
- matches with Ives, 53, 359, 365;
- his long spot-barred breaks, 54;
- weight of his cue, 94;
- admirable cue delivery, 116;
- ease and grace of style, 119;
- skill, 121, 125, 127, 128, 212, 268;
- good at the spot stroke, 274; 370;
- offer to assist in recasting rules of the game, 375;
- on the push stroke, 386
- Roberts, John, sen., 12, 13;
- contrasted with Kentfield, 14, 15;
- rapid rise, 16;
- taught the spot stroke by Mr. Lee Birch, 16;
- interviews Kentfield, 17, 18;
- champion, 19; 21;
- lessee of Saville House, Leicester Square, 22;
- his famous break of 346 in a match with William Dufton, 22;
- matches with Alfred Bowles and Charles Hughes, 23, 24; 26, 28;
- defeated by Cook, 31;
- endurance match with an amateur, 32; 367
- Rotation of ball, 189–214;
- Royal Aquarium, Westminster, 43, 44, 45, 49, 50, 368
- ‘R.-W. Billiard Diagram Notebook,’ 398
- Rudolph, match with Cook, 40
- Rules of billiards, 374;
- defective character, 374;
- proposed revision, 375;
- penalties for infringing, 375;
- suggestions respecting, 376–386;
- discriminating between the act of aiming and the act of striking, 377;
- playing a miss otherwise than with the point of the cue, 378;
- playing with the wrong ball, 378;
- foul strokes, 379;
- when player’s ball touches another ball, 379;
- offences committed by persons other than the players, 380;
- spectators offering advice, 376, 380;
- obstructing players, 380;
- obstruction of the striker by the non-striker, 381;
- how far the marker may assist either player, 381;
- the push stroke, 382;
- the half-push, 384;
- striking a ball twice, 384;
- chief objections to the push stroke, 385, 386
- Safety, when to be sought for, 283;
- St. James’s Hall, 30, 47, 368
- St. Martin chalk, 99
- Sala, J. G., record of consecutive screw back spots, 48; 274
- Samson, Mr., architect, 60, 62;
- designs by, 64–65
- Scoring, different rate of, between amateurs and professionals, 307
- Screw, the, 196, 197, 247;
- Selling pool, principle of the game, 429
- Seymour, William, 116
- ‘Sharping’ in billiard-rooms, 413, 414
- Shell-out, the game of, 407, 408
- Shorter, Fred, wins love game from Bennett, 41–42;
- Side, transmission of, 194, 202;
- Skittle pool, description of, 431;
- Skylight sashes for ventilating billiard-rooms, 62
- Slates for billiard-tables, 73–77
- Smoking in billiard-room, 442
- Snooker, 408;
- Spiller, William, 52
- Spot stroke, the, 11, 16;
- agitation against, 39;
- result of barring, 172;
- constant practice required for success, 264;
- danger of using, 265;
- its genuineness, 266;
- ivory and bonzoline balls in playing, 266;
- use of chalk, 267;
- method of playing, 268;
- its limits, 269;
- the screw back, 273;
- the stab, 276;
- must be taught by a master, 279;
- methods adopted to continue break or obtain safety, 279;
- invaluable as practice for winning hazard play, 282; 320
- Spot-barred breaks, 45
- Spot stroke tables, 85
- Spots, inadvisability of altering, 153
- Stab, the, use of in playing cannons, 182;
- and spot stroke, 276
- Stakes, advantages and disadvantages of playing for, 436
- Stammers, 36, 39
- Standard Association tables, 71
- Stanley, S. W., 25, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41
- Starke, defeated by Roberts, sen., 19;
- further matches with him, 21
- Stevenson, H. W., 27, 52
- Strength, definition of, 106
- String, to, meaning of, 106
- Strokes, following, 194;
- Style, 112
- Tables. See Billiard-tables
- Taylor, Tom, 36, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 48, 368
- Templates, 71
- Terms, billiard, technical, explained, 104–106
- Three-ball practice, 142 et seq.
- Three-inch pocket table. See Championship table
- Three-pool, 413;
- Thurston, John, 10;
- his improvement of tables, 11
- Thurston & Co., 55
- Timbrell, William, 40, 43
- ‘Times,’ the, quoted on the push stroke, 386
- Tips of cues, 95;
- Tobin tubes for ventilating billiard-rooms, 61
- Top-of-the-table game, the, 325–348
- ‘Twisting chalk,’ Carr’s, 7
- Two-ball practice, 130–141
- Union Club, Manchester, 14, 16
- Ventilation in billiard-rooms, 59, 62
- Vignaux, M., aid from his book, 3;
- Vulcanite cushions, 77
- Wales, Prince of, 20;
- Walker, Mr. Russell D., aid from, 3;
- Warming billiard-rooms, 60, 63
- White, Fred, 49
- Wilson, R., 44
- Winning hazards, 142–153;
- confidence required, 320
- Wright & Co., 55, 71