Modern Billiards / A Complete Text-Book of the Game, Containing Plain and Practical Instructions How to Play and Acquire Skill at This Scientific Amusement
FULLY ILLUSTRATED
With Plates and Engravings, showing two hundred and fifty Strokes, and the best methods of executing them, as practised by the leading players of the day.
NEW EDITION—NEW CONTEXT—NEW AND COMPLETE RECORDS OF ALL IMPORTANT MATCH AND TOURNAMENT GAMES, AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL, FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE PRESENT TIME.
THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER CO.,
New York: 31–33 West Thirty-second Street.
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Benjamin Garno
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY.
HISTORICAL.
THE BILLIARD-ROOM.
BILLIARD APPLIANCES—THEIR CHOICE AND CARE.
HOW TO SELECT A TABLE.
PART I.
MANUAL.
DIAGRAM OF STROKES.
PART II.
PLATE XXXVIII.
CONDUCTING TOURNAMENTS.
HOW TO FIGURE AVERAGES.
FOUR-BALL GAME
1854.
1858.
1859.
1860.
1861.
1862.
1863.
1864.
1865.
1866.
1867.
1868.
1869.
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
1876.
REGULAR THREE-BALL CAROMS.
1862.
1864.
1865.
1868.
1869.
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
1890.
1905.
CHAMPIONS GAME.
1879.
1880.
1881.
1882.
1884.
1885.
BEST PERFORMANCES IN PUBLIC MATCHES.
BALKLINE GAME.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
1890.
1891.
1892.
1893.
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
1901.
1902.
1903.
1904
1905.
1906.
1907.
1908.
CUSHION CAROMS.
1867.
1878.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
1892.
1894.
1896.
1899.
1902–3.
THREE-CUSHION CAROMS.
1878.
1882.
1886.
1898.
1899.
1900.
1901.
1902.
1903.
1904.
1906.
1907.
1908.
BEST PERFORMANCES.
BEST PERFORMANCES BY AMATEURS
FIFTEEN-BALL POOL.
1878.
1879.
1881.
1882.
1883.
1884.
1885.
1886.
1887.
1889.
1890.
1891.
1892.
1893.
1894.
1895–96–97.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1901.
1902.
1903.
1904.
1906.
1906.
1907.
1908.
RULES GOVERNING VARIOUS GAMES
RULES GOVERNING PROFESSIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THE ADDITIONS ARE:
INDEX.
INDEX TO BILLIARD RECORD.
FIFTEEN-BALL POOL.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
