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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.
All play, unless otherwise stated, was with 2⅜ balls on a 5 × 10 carom table, and until 1885 on an 8–inch line.
Abbreviations.—Such figures as 600—50.—375 stand in that order for total, average, and high run, the loser’s average being omitted as not a record. Those of 8:2, 14:2, 18:1, and 18:2 signify eight, fourteen, or eighteen-inch line with either one or two shots or plays in balk, regardless of count.