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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 309: TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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About This Book

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.

CHIEF CAROM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEYS.

NON-CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENTS.

MISCELLANEOUS CONTESTS.

  • Amateur sixteen-hour, 214
  • Amateurs desperately end ties, 282
  • Amateur international, 257, 296
  • Balkline played by telegraph, 284
  • Best performances—
    • Four-ball, 235, 236;
    • Three-ball, 260;
    • Champion’s Game, 263;
    • Balkline, 310, 311;
    • Cushion Caroms, 327–8;
    • Amateurs’, 337
  • Cushion Caroms, last professional tournament at, 326
  • Experts’ Game, 231
  • Handicapping by games (14:2 vs. 8:2), 270
  • Irregular Billiards, 338
  • Ives vs. Roberts, 338
  • Kerkau vs. Trebar, 338
  • One cue-ball, 330
  • Revival of 8:2 Balkline, 283
  • Roberts vs. De Oro, 338
  • Space Game, 265, 266
  • Two styles of game in one night, 229, 338

 


 

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

  1. Table of Contents added by transcriber.
  2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
  3. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
  4. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers.