Modern Billiards / A Complete Text-Book of the Game, Containing Plain and Practical Instructions How to Play and Acquire Skill at This Scientific Amusement

by Benjamin Garno

J. Ferd. Poggenburg vs. Wm. H. Duhy. Rooms of the Cherokee Club, N. Y. City, February 26th.—Contest for the Victor Dowling Championship Cup at “straight-rail,” 4½ × 9 table. P., 150—9.44—run not stated; D., 146—run, 60 (highest of game). At the Lexington Avenue Opera House, N. Y. City, April 30th, for same emblem: Ed. McLaughlin, 300—21.43—158; Wm. Duhy, 153—50. Table, 4½ × 9.

BEST PERFORMANCES,
Omitting Tables Larger or Smaller than the Standard 5 × 10 for this Game, as Officially Decreed in 1873.

AVERAGES IN CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES.

333.33 in 1000—J. Schaefer, 1879.

28.57 in 600—Wm. Sexton, 1878.

RUNS IN CHAMPIONSHIP MATCHES.

690 in 1000—J. Schaefer, 1879.

247 in 600—Wm. Sexton, 1877.

AVERAGES IN CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENTS.

85.71 in 600 points—J. Schaefer, 1879.