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

• Amateur sixteen-hour, [214]
• Amateurs desperately end ties, [282]
• Amateur international, [257], [296]
• Balkline played by telegraph, [284]
• Best performances—
  • Four-ball, [235], [236];
  • Three-ball, [260];
  • Champion’s Game, [263];
  • Balkline, [310], [311];
  • Cushion Caroms, [327]–8;
  • Amateurs’, [337]
• Cushion Caroms, last professional tournament at, [326]
• Experts’ Game, [231]
• Handicapping by games (14:2 vs. 8:2), [270]
• Irregular Billiards, [338]
• Ives vs. Roberts, [338]
• Kerkau vs. Trebar, [338]
• One cue-ball, [330]
• Revival of 8:2 Balkline, [283]
• Roberts vs. De Oro, [338]
• Space Game, [265], [266]
• Two styles of game in one night, [229], [338]

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

1. Table of [Contents] added by transcriber.
2. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
3. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed.
4. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers.

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