INDEX.
- Acute draws, 128, 160, 170
- Aim and delivery, 26, 27, 56, 57, 77
- “Albany Pony,” 8
- Angle, false, 92, 93
- Angles, 54 to 57, 64, 81, 86, 87, 90 to 92, 106 to 112
- Around-the-table, 84, 85, 116 to 119
- Attitude, 21 to 23;
- Averages:
- how to figure, 204;
- decimals best, 204, 205;
- general or grand averages, 205, 206;
- true and false, 206
- Balkline Games described, 261, 264
- Balkline Games recorded, 261 to 319
- Balklining an American idea, 7
- Ball:
- ivory and its care, 14 to 18;
- composition ball, 18;
- standard size, 18;
- fractional divisions, 27, 29, 41 to 44;
- slowed in play, 38, 100, 103, 104, 115, 124, 127;
- sometimes slides, instead of rolls, 31, 38;
- illustrated cue-ball as struck for draw, follow, twist and massé, 28
- Bank shots (cushion first), 167, 168, 178 to 181
- Billiard-room:
- its proper dimensions for various tables, 9;
- how best to light it, 9, 10
- Billiard-table arranged for different games, 72
- Billiards:
- pre-eminently a mental pastime, 1;
- participation its chief charm, 1;
- as a spectacle, 1;
- historically considered, 4 to 8;
- progress of, 1 to 8;
- in its new forms, essentially American, 7;
- appliances, their choice and care, 9 to 18
- Bridge hand, 35, 36, 68, 69
- Buist, Andrew, 8
- Care of ivory, 14 to 18
- Care of table, 11
- Caroms illustrated and directed, 46 to 199
- Carr and his magic chalk, 7
- Chalk, 7, 13
- Change of impingement, 56, 57
- Changing habits of play, 19, 20
- Close draw, 193, 199
- Cloth, 12, 13
- Cue, 12, 13, 24;
- Cue-ball, 28;
- Cue-leathers:
- alleged origin, 6 to 7;
- choice and care, 13, 24, 25
- Curve, convex and concave, 48, 49;
- Curve massé, 130
- Cushion-carom Game, 8, 320 to 328;
- Cushion first (see bank shots)
- Cushion follow, 88, 89, 136, 137
- Cushion kiss, 67, 137, 138, 144, 147, 149
- Cushion shots illustrated, 55, 56, 58, 61, 63, 64, 72, 73, 82, 84, 86, 88, 92, 96, 99, 100, 107, 117, 119, 122, 130, 147, 154, 158, 160, 163, 167, 182, 186, 188, 191, 193
- Cushion twist, 60 to 63
- Cushions: their requisites and care, 13, 14
- Degrees of cue-elevation, 38, 39
- Degrees of strength of stroke, 47, 75
- Delicacy of touch, 24
- Delivery, 26, 27, 31, 50
- Diagonal, retrograde, rotation and impulsion, all in one stroke, 58
- Diagrams of strokes, 46 to 199
- Dions in England, 8
- Direct caroms, 74, 78, 82
- Direct draws, 152, 153
- Division of cue and object balls, 41 to 44
- Doubling object-ball, 100 to 105, 134, 172
- Draw, alleged origin of, 6
- Draw, acute, 128, 160, 170
- Draw and twist combined, 112
- Draws and spreads illustrated, 32, 77, 120, 128, 130, 133, 153, 160, 163, 167, 172, 192 to 194, 199
- Driving shots illustrated, 100, 103, 104, 124 to 129, 142, 143, 150, 177, 186
- Early billiards in America, 5, 6
- Elevation of cue, 38, 39
- “English” (see twist)
- Equal angles, 56, 57
- Estimating odds, 202, 203
- Excessive twist, 88, 91, 92
- Eye at instant of stroke, 26
- False and natural angles, 90 to 92
- Fifteen-ball Pool, records of, 314 to 324
- “Fine-cut” caroms, 117, 154, 184 to 187
- Follow cushion (or cushion follow), 88, 136
- Follow shots, 29 to 31, 52, 53, 77, 88, 136, 172, 174, 175
- Force of delivery, 50
- Forearm movement, 22;
- Forfeitures, 200 to 201
- Four-ball Game, records of, 208 to 236
- French (or Three-ball) Game, records of, 237 to 260
- Games:
- Four-ball, 208 to 236;
- Three-ball, 237 to 260;
- Champion’s, 261 to 263;
- Balkline, 264 to 319;
- Cushion Caroms, Straight and Triple, 320 to 336;
- Fifteen-ball Pool, 339 to 354
- Gaslight, height of, 9, 10
- Gathering shots illustrated, 78 to 84, 150, 156 to 165
- Habits, discarding wrong ones, 19, 20
- Half massé, 39
- Handicapping, 202, 203
- Heavy cue, 24
- Height of gas, 9, 10
- Higham, Linley, 8
- Historical, 4 to 8
- Hollanders, 5
- How to build a room, 9
- How to hold a cue, 25, 26
- Huguenots, 5
- Illustrated caroms, 47 to 199
- Incidence, angle of reflection and, 55 to 57
- Introductory, 1 to 3
- Ivory balls, care of, 14 to 18
- Jump, its cause and prevention, 14, 39, 40
- Kiss draw, 196, 197
- Kiss follow, 196, 197
- Kiss shots illustrated, 67, 123, 137, 138, 141, 144, 147, 163, 185, 193, 196, 197
- Knights-Templar, 5
- Ladies’ attitude at play, 22, 23
- Learning from a book, 20
- Leathering cues, 13
- Machinery of billiards and its care, 9 to 18
- Manual:
- Part I., 19 to 70;
- Part II., 71 to 199
- Massé, 35, 37, 39, 68, 69, 148, 149, 166, 167, 198, 199
- Mental drawing of angles, 56, 64
- Methods of twist, 33
- Mingaud, Capt., 6
- Monasteries as a billiard cradle, 5
- More, Cathire, 4
- Movements of arm and wrist, 22
- Natural angles vs. false, 92, 93
- Nationalities, various, as players, 4 to 7
- N. Y. City’s early English billiards, 5, 6
- Nursing or holding the balls, 35
- Object-ball, 40;
- Objective point in calculating angles, 108
- Object of play in all strokes, 72
- Oiling balls, 17
- Opening stroke, 72
- Part I., 19 to 70
- Part II., 71 to 199
- Perception, quick, 1, 26
- Philosophy of twist, 58
- Pool, Fifteen-ball, 31, 320 to 336
- Position shots illustrated, 78, 81, 82, 100 to 105, 114, 115, 124 to 129, 134, 143, 150, 156 to 165, 177, 186, 193
- Principles involved in caroms, 75
- Projecting cue-tips, 12
- Quarter draws, 152, 153
- Quick delivery of cue, 31
- Requirements of table and room, 9 to 18
- Reverse twist illustrated, 94 to 97, 132, 133, 176, 177, 182, 183, 188, 189
- Rotation, cue-ball without, 49
- Rules governing professional championships, 325, 326.
- Rules of the various games, 354.
- Scheduling tournaments, 201
- Scoring games, 203, 204
- Scoring for the press, 204
- Sliding cue-ball, 31, 38
- Slowed cue-ball, 38, 100, 103, 104, 115, 124, 127
- Spaniards and De Soto, 5
- Speeding the object-ball, 38, 53
- Spots on table for different games, 70, 71
- Spread draws, 171
- Strengths of stroke, various, 46 to 53
- Stroke:
- Table and accompaniments, 9 to 18
- Table arranged for different games, 70, 71
- Taking aim, 21, 22
- Teaching, 19, 20
- Third and fourth balls introduced, 6
- Three-ball Game, records of, 237 to 260
- Three-cushion Caroms, 320 to 336
- Tie games in tournaments, 200
- Tournaj 207
- Twist, alleged origin of, 6
- Twist, natural and reverse, illustrated, 32 to 35, 58, 61, 63, 88, 91 to 93, 115, 120, 133, 137, 172, 175, 182, 188, 193, 194, 196, 199
- Various caroms from one position, 87
- Vigne, Henri de, 4
- Virginia, English Cavaliers in, 5
- Weight and density of ball, 34, 35
- Wrist movement, 22, 34, 112