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

Wm. F. Hoppe,

Albert G. Cutler.

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;
  • for females, [22], [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];
  • how to hold, [25], [26];
  • elevation, [38], [39]
• Cue-ball, [28];
  • divisions of, [27], [29], [43], [44];
  • control by means of, [53], [106], [107]
• Cue-leathers:
  • alleged origin, [6] to 7;
  • choice and care, [13], [24], [25]
• Curve, convex and concave, [48], [49];
  • allowance for, [53]
• Curve massé, [130]
• Cushion-carom Game, [8], [320] to 328;
  • change of rule, [322]
• 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];
  • with wrist stroke, [112]
• 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];
  • divisions of, [41] to 44;
  • driving, [100], [103], [104], [124] to 129, [134], [143], [177], [186]
• 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:
  • central, [29], [61];
  • opening, [72];
  • simple, [75], [82];
  • difficult, [156], [192], [193], [198]
• 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]

INDEX TO BILLIARD RECORD.

FOUR-BALL GAMES (pp. [208] to 236).

NOTE.—THE ONE PAGE IN MANY CASES COVERS SEVERAL GAMES BY THE ONE PLAYER. FIGURES IN PARENTHESES () INDICATE PAGE OF “BEST PERFORMANCES.”

• Abrams, [234]
• Ackerman, [215], [222], [223]
• Anderson, [219]
• Baldwin, W., [218]
• Beatty, [215]
• Benjamin, [213]
• Bennett, J. G., [232], [234]
• Bessunger, [234]
• Bird, [209], [213]
• Blaisdell, [227]
• Bluim, [219]
• Bly, [225]
• Bowen, [231]
• Brainard, [223]
• Broga, [215]
• Brooks, [214], [227]
• Brough, [218]
• Brown, [214], [217]
• Brown, W., [218]
• Bruce, [218], [221]
• Bryan, [218]
• Bullock, [233], [234]
• Burbank, [212], [213]
• Byers, [229], [231]
• Campbell, [230]
• Capron, L., [219]
• Carme, [211], [217], [219], [223]
• Carter, E., [232]
• Casper, J., [223], [228], [247]
• Chapman, [218]
• Cheseborough, [214], [217], [219]
• Cherry, [223], [228]
• Choate, [215], [218], [222], [223], [228], [229]
• Coan, [216]
• Colby, [227]
• Coon, [214], [217], [222], [229]
• Craft, [230]
• Crawford, [218]
• Cronn, [214], [223]
• Crystal, [208]
• Cusick, [221]
• Daly, M., [208], [226], [231], [232], [233], [235] ([236])
• Daniels, [214], [215], [217], [220], [222], [225], [226], [229]
• Davis, [222]
• “Davis,” 216
• Davis, C., [215], [222]
• Davis, E., [221]
• Davis, R., [227]
• Deery, [209], [210], [211], [214], [219], [225], [226], [229], [231]
• Dennison, [227], [231], [233], [234]
• Derome, [232]
• Dion, C., [216], [217], [220], [222], [226], [229], [230], [231] ([235])
• Dion, F., [232]
• Dion, J., [211], [212], [216], [219], [224], [226], [230], [232] (235, [236])
• Dodge, [225]
• Donahue, [216]
• Egener, [222], [232]
• Ellison, [227]
• Estephe, [211], [213], [218], [220], [221] ([236])
• Ferguson, J., [216], [231], [232]
• Fitch, [231], [232]
• Flack, [227]
• Foley, M., [208], [210], [211] ([236])
• Foley, T., [214], [216], [217], [219], [220], [223], [224]
• Forhan, [221]
• Foster, [211], [214], [216], [218], [222], [224], [227], [229], [231] ([236])
• Fox, [211]
• Francis, [232]
• Frawley, [215], [220], [223], [224]
• Frink, [214], [216], [232]
• Furlong, [221]
• Garnier, [226], [233] ([235])
• Garratt, [228], [229]
• Garst, [229]
• Geary, [209]
• Gillett, [233]
• Glessner, [217]
• Godfrey, [217]
• Goldthwait, [210], [212], [215], [216], [219], [220], [222], [225], [234]
• Gregg, [228]
• Griffey, [215]
• Grunkemeyer, [223], [228]
• Guillett, [216]
• Harding, [214]
• Hardy, [225]
• Harrison, A. H., [219], [220]
• Hewes, [213], [221]
• Hewins, [213], [223], [231]
• Hickey, [232], [233]
• Hoa, [234]
• Honing, [215], [223], [228]
• Honohan, [221]
• Hoyt, [221]
• Hubbell, [212], [213], [220]
• Humphreys, [227]
• Hunt, [212], [213]
• Jakes, [213], [214], [216], [222], [231], [232]
• Jamison, [222], [232] ([236])
• Karff, [225]
• Kavanagh, [209], [212], [217] ([236])
• Keating, [212]
• Kendall, [233], [234]
• Kenny, [231]
• Kimball, [231], [232]
• Kinzie, [227]
• Kleser, [224], [225], [229]
• Knox, [232]
• Kraker, [233]
• Langdon, [214], [215]
• Le Brun, [216], [221]
• Little, [210], [230]
• Liverman, [225]
• Lloyd, [218]
• Lynch, D., [210]
• Lynch, J., [209]
• Maggioli, [234]
• Manard, [219]
• Masters, [216]
• May, [213], [216], [217], [219], [222]
• McCarthy, [219], [220]
• McCleery, [230], [233]
• McCracken, [219], [228], [229]
• McDevitt, [211], [212], [215], [216], [220], [222] (235, [236])
• McFarland, [219]
• McKeever, [214]
• McVittie, [216]
• Miller, D., [213], [214], [217]
• Miller, H., [234]
• Miller, J., [234]
• Miller, M. M., [219]
• Montgomery, [213]
• Morris, E., [222]
• Morris, G., [219]
• Murphy, J. F., [227]
• Murphy, James, [227]
• Myers, F. A., [218]
• Nelms, [211], [213], [220], [221], [232] ([236])
• O’Brien, [227]
• O’Connell, [219]
• Olcott, [224]
• Orndorff, [223]
• Palmer, J., [213], [221]
• Parker, F., [212], [222], [226], [228], [229] ([236])
• Pearce, [219]
• Peck, [214], [233]
• Phelan, J., [232]
• Phelan, M., [209], [212] ([236])
• Phillips, [217]
• Pickley, [227]
• Plunkett, [213], [218], [232]
• Porter, [213]
• Quaid, [234]
• Quill, [223]
• Rapelye, [230], [233]
• Rhines, [216], [221], [224], [225]
• Rivers, [222]
• Roberts, [230]
• Rockhill, [221]
• Rogers, [225], [230], [233]
• Rooney, [216]
• Rudolphe, [223], [225], [226], [229], [230], [231], [232] ([236])
• Russell, [232]
• Ryall, [213], [218], [221]
• Seavor, [225]
• Seereiter, [208], [209], [211] ([236])
• Sexton, [235]
• Shiel, [227], [230]
• Simonds, [223]
• Slosson, [231], [232], [233], [234], [235]
• Smith, C. E., [217], [227], [230]
• Smith, F. E., [214], [222]
• Smith, G., [208]
• Snyder, [222], [225], [228]
• Spear, [227]
• Sproul, [225]
• Stevens, [227]
• Stone, [227], [231]
• Terrell, [219]
• Tieman, [209], [211]
• Tobin, [214], [215], [227]
• Turner, [215], [222], [223]
• Tustin, [214], [225]
• Twitchell, [231], [232]
• Upham, [230]
• Vanderwerker, [225], [230], [233]
• Vermeulen, [216], [219], [221], [223]
• Wade, [219]
• Watkins, [227]
• Wharton, [225]
• White, J. N., [208], [209]
• White, T. H., [227]
• Wickes, [214]
• Wider, [219]
• Williams, A. B., [227]
• Williams, R. T., [217]
• Williamson, [228]
• Wilmarth, [214], [215], [217], [227], [233]
• Wilson, [227]
• Wilson, C. E., [231], [233], [234]
• Wollahan, [213]
• Wright, [223], [233] ([236])

REGULAR THREE-BALL CAROMS (pp. [237] to 260).

NOTE.—THE ONE NAME IN MANY CASES COVERS SEVERAL GAMES ON THE ONE PAGE. FIGURES IN PARENTHESES () INDICATE PAGE OF “BEST PERFORMANCES.”