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Just as there were ‘brave men before Agamemnon,’ so, doubtless, were there good billiard-players prior to Kentfield; but we hear very little about them. One of the few whose name has been handed down to posterity is John—generally known as Jack—Carr. He was originally marker f...
Just as there were ‘brave men before Agamemnon,’ so, doubtless, were there good billiard-players prior to Kentfield; but we hear very little about them. One of the few whose nam...
2. CHAPTER IINo game in the world is so absolutely dependent on all its various accessories as billiards. Cricket can still be played, and played well, although the pitch may be not quite fi...
3. CHAPTER IIIBefore commencing the manual of instruction in billiards, it is desirable to address a few words of advice to the beginner, and to explain some of the technical terms used. Othe...
4. CHAPTER IVThe practice prescribed in the preceding chapter had for its chief object the attainment of certainty in striking ball 1 truly in the centre; we now proceed to study some of the...
5. Chapter V.From the strokes recommended in Chapter III. for practice it will have been learnt that in a general way a ball played against a cushion will return therefrom, so that the angle...
6. CHAPTER VBy the practice already recommended, the beginner should have become fairly able to strike ball 1 in the centre, and familiar with the divisions of ball 2; he may therefore with...
7. CHAPTER VIThe subject of this chapter is a very difficult one to deal with in a manner at all satisfactory, and the writer is conscious that the want of minute knowledge, both theoretical...
8. CHAPTER VIIUnder the above heading it is proposed to describe a variety of strokes many of which may be played in different ways, according to the position which it is desired to leave. So...
9. CHAPTER VIIIHitherto the theory of the game and the strokes recommended for practice have been such as are required in learning to play a sound and perhaps old-fashioned game, that of an am...
10. CHAPTER IXThe subject of this chapter, though of very great importance, is unquestionably of much less interest than the consideration of making strokes, just as in war attack is preferre...
11. CHAPTER XIn Chapter III. the term _break_ was explained as a continuous score, or one made in unbroken succession, and the definition is in a general sense accurate; nevertheless, it has...
12. Chapter V. p. 164). Place ball 1 for the half-ball hazard, and play thestroke in the usual way, when ball 2 will stop near the left middle pocket, and it is probable that either a hazard or cannon will be left. The one serious danger of the stroke...
13. Chapter VIII. clearly shows the great merit of the spot stroke as ameans of practice. The combination of strength and accuracy is most important training. One or other position will probably prove more difficult than the rest. Practise that par...
14. CHAPTER XIHitherto what has been stated about the game of billiards in this volume, whether generally or in the description of strokes recommended for practice, has been on the suppositio...
15. CHAPTER XIIIn a game so scientific and at the same time so popular as billiards, played, as it is occasionally, for important stakes, the rules evidently should be clear, precise, and suff...
16. CHAPTER XIIIWhen and under what circumstances winning hazard games were invented, billiard history does not record. Every player, however, must have met men with little aptitude for the mor...
17. CHAPTER XIVBefore finishing this book it is desirable to mention a few matters connected with billiards which have not been dealt with in former chapters, though some of them may have been...