CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
Introduction[1]
I.History of Billiards[6]
By Sydenham Dixon.
II.Implements[55]
By Archibald Boyd.
III.Elementary: One-ball Practice[104]
With Memorandum by Dudley D. Pontifex.
IV.Motion, Impact, and Division of Balls: Two-ball Practice[130]
V.Plain Strokes, Winning and Losing Hazards, Cannons: Three-ball Practice[142]
VI.On the Rotation of Balls[189]
VII.Miscellaneous Strokes[215]
VIII.The Spot Stroke[264]
IX.Safety and Baulk Play[283]
X.Breaks[300]
With Memoranda by Archibald Boyd and R. H. R. Rimington-Wilson.
XI.The Championship and the Three-inch Pocket Table[362]
With Memorandum by Russell D. Walker
XII.The Rules of the Game of Billiards[374]
XIII.Pyramids, Pool, and Country-House Games[387]
By W.J. Ford
XIV.Miscellaneous Notes[436]
Index [447]

ILLUSTRATIONS

(Reproduced by the Swan Electric Engraving Co.; Walker & Boutall; P. Naumann, and G. H. Ford)

PLATES
ARTIST
A Screw LoserLucien Davis.[Frontispiece]
Choosing a Cue„       „To face p. [48]
Preliminaries„       „    „     [108]
Opening The Game„       „    „     [133]
A Disputed Score„       „    „     [148]
In or out of Baulk„       „    „     [190]
The Long Rest„       „    „     [264]
A Serious Game: Nursing the Balls„       „    „     [300]
A Difficult Stroke„       „    „     [362]
Are They Touching„       „    „     [386]
A Ladies’ Battle„       „    „     [440]
ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT
PAGE
Mr. Samson’s Sections of a Billiard-room[64], [65]
An Outside Billiard-Room[103]
Stringing.[106]
An Easy Attitude[107]
The Bridge[109]
Using the Rest[113]
The Bridge (bouclée)[129]
Instead of Long Rest[148]
High Bridge for a Cramped Stroke[188]
A Push Stroke[225]
A Push (bouclée)[232]
The Leap or Jump Stroke[252]
When Player’s Ball is near a Cushion[263]
Preparing to play behind the Back: the right way[314]
Preparing to play behind the Back: the wrong way[324]
A Nursery[349]
Playing behind the Back[360]
A Winning Game[437]

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