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

FIFTEEN-BALL POOL.

NOTE.—THE PAGE IN MANY CASES COVERS SEVERAL GAMES BY THE ONE PLAYER.

• Alana, [349]
• Alexander, [351]
• Allinger, [348]
• Andrews, [353]
• Banks, [351], [352]
• Barnes, [347]
• Barrett, [352]
• Barton, [345]
• Becker, [349]
• Bessunger, [341]
• Bien, [352], [353]
• Block, [341]
• Brumby, [350]
• Burns, [349]
• Burris, [348]
• Carney, [350]
• Carreche, [349]
• Carter, E., [341]
• Claess, [342], [343]
• Clearwater, [343] to 351
• Collamore, [352], [353]
• Colton, [352], [353]
• Crowe, [354]
• Dale, [341]
• Daly, J., [348], [351], [352]
• Dankleman, [341], [343]
• Dawson, [351]
• De Oro, [338], [342] to 350, [354]
• Dewey, [352]
• Dinning, [345]
• Dion, C., [339], [340]
• Dion, J., [339], [340]
• Doran, [353]
• Dougherty, [345], [347], [348]
• Douglas, [352], [353]
• Dupree, [352]
• Eby, [344], [345], [348] to 350
• Eden, [340]
• Eggleston, [343], [346]
• Erickson, [345]
• Fancher, [351]
• Fey, [351], [352], [354]
• Field, [340]
• Fraley, [351]
• Frey, A., [340] to 342
• Frey, G., [339]
• Gamble, [352]
• Gillett, [349]
• Gould, [340]
• Gray, [352]
• Griffith, [352]–3
• Hamber, [349]
• Hamilton, [342]
• Hart, [352]–3
• Heatherton, [352]–4
• Heman, [341]
• Horgan, [348], [350]
• Hough, [340]
• Horning, [348]
• Hueston, [350], [351], [354]
• Hyman, [351]
• Kelly, [348]
• Keogh, [343] to 351
• King, H., [347]
• King, J., [340] to 343
• Kirkland, [349]
• Knight, S. F., [339] to 343
• Kowenhoven, [351]
• Kryne, [353]
• Kuntzsch, [344], [345], [346]
• Lake, [351]
• Lambert, [341]
• Lawlor, [343]
• Lean, [350], [354]
• Leonard, [341]
• Levy, P., [348]
• Lewis, [351]
• Long, [348], [349]
• Lubbock, [353]
• Luddington, [345]
• McCabe, [349]
• McCoy, [353]
• McCune, [349]
• McNamarra, [351]
• McWarble, [339]
• Mack, [340]
• Malone, [341] to 343
• Manning, [342] to 345
• Moore, [339]
• Morris, A., [339], [340]
• Morris, G., [340]
• Munsey, [347]
• O’Donahue, [352]
• Payton, [344]
• Pearce, [353]
• Pelletier, [351], [352], [354]
• Porter, [349]
• Powers, [343] to 346
• Price, [349]
• Rhoades, [348]
• Rice, [352]
• Roberts, J. (Eng.), [338], [346]
• Robinson, [351]
• Rodgers, [342], [346], [349]
• Roff, [352]
• Rudolphe, [339], [340]
• Saborido, [345]
• Schaefer, C., [339] to 342
• Schaefer, J., [339], [340]
• Schu, [353]
• Schutt, [352]
• Sexton, [339], [340]
• Shaw, [343]
• Sherman, [344] to 350, [354]
• Smith, Prof., [349]
• Smith, [352]
• Smith (Houston), [353]
• Sneden, [349]
• Stewart, [344] to 346
• Stofft, [348], [349]
• Strewe, [345]
• Stubbs, [348]
• Sutton, G., [341]
• Tallman, [351]
• Tarleton, M., [349]
• Thompson, E., [341]
• Thompson, [353]
• Thornton, [348]
• Tilt, W. A., [353], [354]
• Tripp, [351]
• Vorhoff, G., [349]
• Vorhoff, J., [349]
• Wahlstrom, [339], [340]
• Wallace, [341]
• Ward, [345]
• Walsh, [344] to 346, [349]
• Weller, [340]
• Wenrick, [345], [346], [349]
• Werner, [346]
• Weston, [349], [350], [354]
• Wharton, [343]
• White, T. E., [347]
• Williams, [353]
• Wilson, [347]
• Wilson, C. E., [339], [340]
• Young, Jr., [351], [352]

FIRST EVENTS OF NOTE.

• Amateur championship, [225]; second, [227]
• Amateur championship of America, [257]
• Amateur to become champion, [212], [213]
• “Average”-keeping, [208]
• “Average” of double figures at Three-ball Game, [241]
• “Averages” (single and general) exactly alike, [266]
• Balkline introduced and described, [261] (Champion’s Game);
  • 264 (8:2, followed by 10, 12, 12½, 14, and 18 in.);
  • 265, [266] (Space Game)
• Balkline (14:2), [267];
  • in France, [270]
• Balkline (18:2) introduced, [276];
  • revived, [290]
• Balkline (18:1)
  • introduced, [276], [277];
  • championship series, [277], [278], [285]
• Balklining by amateurs (8:2, [14]:2, and 18:2), [272], [273], [291], [292]
• Bridge barred, [214]
• Brunswick table in public, [222]
• California’s only first-class tourney, [251]
• Canadian tournament, [213]
• Champion’s Game, [261];
  • in France, [262]
• Championship tournament, [210], [211];
  • of world, [242]
• Chicago’s first-class tournament, [243]
• Contest between foreigners, [219]
• Contest between French experts, [223]
• Contest of multiple nights, [244];
  • of same at Cushion Caroms, [305]
• Crotch barred, [210], [239]
• Cushion-Carom Game, changes in cushioning rule, [302]
• Entrance-fees in tournament, [225];
  • revived, [266], [267]
• Five players (the whole number) tied alike, [269]
• Four-pocket table introduced, [210]
• Fournil visits America, [306]
• Game played over, [232];
  • second (Diamond Cue championship), [226]
• Game prohibitive of nursing, [230]
• Handicap in public tournament, [231], [252], [266]
• Home-and-home match, [210]
• Jawing barred, [211]
• Kerkau visits America, [277]
• Lines on table, [224]
• Long games in tournament, [225], [251]
• Lowering of height of tables, [237]
• Mace barred, [214]
• Massé barred, [210]
• Playing under protest, [224]
• Push-shot barred, [214], [225]
• Push-shot restored, [218]
• Professional tournament, [209], [210]
• Public or record contest, [208]
• Public match at West, [209]
• Running-out of game from start, [227]
• Run of triple figures at Three-ball Game, [241]
• State championship, [212]
• Sweepstakes tournament, [324]
• Thousand-point Three-ball Game in a night, [254]
• Three-ball Game officially adopted, [239], [240], [242]
• Three-cushion tournament, [329]
• Tournament in France, [255];
  • also the last professional one anywhere at the same game (Three-ball Caroms)

CHIEF CAROM CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNEYS.

• Of America, [210], [211], [225], [226], [246], [310], [322], [330]
• Of Canada, [213], [216], [217], [219], [222], [232]
• Of the Champions, State and Canadian, [220]
• Of Chicago, [253]
• Of France, [255], [286]
• Of Long Island, [225], [230], [233], [245]
• Of Philadelphia roomkeepers, [267], [276], [278], [281], [313]
• Of “Shortstops,” 270, [272], [276], [277], [294]
  • (“Young Masters” in Paris), [301], [310]
• Of States—
  • California, [231];
  • Connecticut, [212], [213], [265], [269];
  • Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, [265], [266];
  • Dakota, [257];
  • Georgia, [218];
  • Illinois, [216], [221], [299];
  • Indiana, [219], [228], [253];
  • Louisiana, [234], [242], [251], [252], [310];
  • Maine, [217], [229], [230];
  • Maryland, [217];
  • Massachusetts, [214], [227], [233], [244];
  • Missouri, [224], [225];
  • Nevada, [223];
  • New England, [270], [272], [288], [335];
  • Northwest, [240], [292], [299];
  • Northwest and Southwest, [248], [298];
  • Ohio, [215], [223], [228], [247], [316];
  • Pacific Coast, [222], [233], [243], [256];
  • Pennsylvania, [213], [218], [220], [239], [317];
  • Virginia, [217];
  • Wisconsin, [224], [225], [316]
• Of the world, [242], [254], [277], [285], [286], [290], [308], [309], [312]
• Amateur—
  • First national championship, [257], [258];
  • A. A. U.’s, [279], [280], [281], [283], [286], [287];
  • N. A. A. B. P.’s, [281], [283], [286], [289], [294], [300], [304], [305], [307], [308], [316], [317];
  • French championship of world, [297], [301], [302] and 308 at 14:2, and 302 and 317 at 18:2;
  • Championship of France and Belgium (18:2), [291];
  • Knickerbocker A. C.’s, N. Y. City, [278], [283] (also see A. A. U.’s);
  • Hanover Club of Brooklyn and German Liederkranz Society of Manhattan (see N. A. A. B. P.’s tournaments);
  • Interclub, Philadelphia, [290], [291], [295], [301], [306], [312];
  • New Orleans, [242];
  • Illinois, [275], [299];
  • Chicago, [227], [299], [300];
  • Cook County, Ill., [282];
  • St. Paul and Minneapolis, [287], [291], [296], [299], [300];
  • Long Island, [233], [245];
  • Billiard Club, N. Y. City, [295], [332];
  • N. Y. A. C., [290], [313];
  • Boston, [298], [313];
  • Crescent A. C., Brooklyn, [306], [315];
  • Massachusetts, [314], [315], [316];
  • Mussey’s Challenge Trophy, Chicago, [323];
  • Pacific Coast, [323];
  • three-cushions, [330], [335]–6

NON-CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENTS.

• Bookmakers’ handicaps, N. Y. City, [324]
• Boston, [274], [295], [305], [307], [314], [326]
• Brooklyn, [248], [257], [258], [259], [272], [292], [295], [302], [305], [306], [308], [315]
• California handicap, [315]
• Canada—Toronto, [284]
• Chicago, [263], [271], [275], [276], [277], [280], [281], [285], [288], [289], [293], [296], [298], [299], [300], [302], [303], [304], [306], [309], [310], [311], [314]
• Cincinnati, [274]
• Los Angeles, Cal., [315], [333]
• New Orleans, [253], [262], [283], [285]
• New York City, [209], [249], [251], [252], [267], [270], [271], [273], [274], [276], [279], [282], [284], [285], [293], [295], [296], [297], [298], [299], [300], [303], [304], [305], [306], [307], [308], [310], [311], [319], [322], [323]
• Philadelphia, [250], [275], [301], [306], [307]
• Pittsburg, [291], [293]
• Portland, Ore., [304]
• San Francisco, [251], [266], [288], [289], [292], [297], [304], [332]
• Saratoga, [318]
• St. Louis, [253], [256], [312], [329], [331]
• Trenton, N. J., [307], [314]

MISCELLANEOUS CONTESTS.