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Modern Billiards / A Complete Text-Book of the Game, Containing Plain and Practical Instructions How to Play and Acquire Skill at This Scientific Amusement

Chapter 305: FIRST EVENTS OF NOTE.
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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.

CUSHION CAROMS—STRAIGHT AND TRIPLE.

NOTE.—THE ONE PAGE IN MANY CASES COVERS SEVERAL GAMES BY THE ONE PLAYER. FIGURES IN PARENTHESES () DENOTE PAGE OF “BEST PERFORMANCES.”

STRAIGHT
TRIPLE.

FIFTEEN-BALL POOL.

NOTE.—THE PAGE IN MANY CASES COVERS SEVERAL GAMES BY THE ONE PLAYER.

FIRST EVENTS OF NOTE.

  • Amateur championship, 225; second, 227
  • Amateur championship of America, 257
  • Amateur to become champion, 212, 213
  • “Average”-keeping, 208
  • “Average” of double figures at Three-ball Game, 241
  • “Averages” (single and general) exactly alike, 266
  • Balkline introduced and described, 261 (Champion’s Game);
    • 264 (8:2, followed by 10, 12, 12½, 14, and 18 in.);
    • 265, 266 (Space Game)
  • Balkline (14:2), 267;
    • in France, 270
  • Balkline (18:2) introduced, 276;
  • Balkline (18:1)
  • Balklining by amateurs (8:2, 14:2, and 18:2), 272, 273, 291, 292
  • Bridge barred, 214
  • Brunswick table in public, 222
  • California’s only first-class tourney, 251
  • Canadian tournament, 213
  • Champion’s Game, 261;
    • in France, 262
  • Championship tournament, 210, 211;
    • of world, 242
  • Chicago’s first-class tournament, 243
  • Contest between foreigners, 219
  • Contest between French experts, 223
  • Contest of multiple nights, 244;
    • of same at Cushion Caroms, 305
  • Crotch barred, 210, 239
  • Cushion-Carom Game, changes in cushioning rule, 302
  • Entrance-fees in tournament, 225;
  • Five players (the whole number) tied alike, 269
  • Four-pocket table introduced, 210
  • Fournil visits America, 306
  • Game played over, 232;
    • second (Diamond Cue championship), 226
  • Game prohibitive of nursing, 230
  • Handicap in public tournament, 231, 252, 266
  • Home-and-home match, 210
  • Jawing barred, 211
  • Kerkau visits America, 277
  • Lines on table, 224
  • Long games in tournament, 225, 251
  • Lowering of height of tables, 237
  • Mace barred, 214
  • Massé barred, 210
  • Playing under protest, 224
  • Push-shot barred, 214, 225
  • Push-shot restored, 218
  • Professional tournament, 209, 210
  • Public or record contest, 208
  • Public match at West, 209
  • Running-out of game from start, 227
  • Run of triple figures at Three-ball Game, 241
  • State championship, 212
  • Sweepstakes tournament, 324
  • Thousand-point Three-ball Game in a night, 254
  • Three-ball Game officially adopted, 239, 240, 242
  • Three-cushion tournament, 329
  • Tournament in France, 255;
    • also the last professional one anywhere at the same game (Three-ball Caroms)