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A comprehensive manual treats billiards as a disciplined recreational skill, beginning with historical context and equipment and room considerations. It offers systematic, illustrated instruction in cue handling, shot-making, cushion play, and a wide range of game variants and scoring methods, including carom and pool forms. Practical chapters cover evolving techniques, table and cloth care, selection and use of cues, and strategies for counting and position play. Additional sections explain rules, tournament conduct, and competitive records, aiming to guide readers from basic shots to advanced, repeatable strokes through diagrams and methodical practice advice.
First Formal Public Contest. Gallaher’s Hall, N. Y. City,
October 5th.—First of the three-game match (see, Four-ball for
others), $1,000 a side, 5½ × 11 carom, 25
16 balls. Pierre Carme,
from France: Total, 250—winning average, 2.48—high run, 19;
Dudley Kavanagh, 224—15. [Note.—This is the order of all matches,
the loser’s average being omitted as not a technical record.]
The table was a compromise in height between the French and the American.