It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm farther from the Strand
Than when I was a boy.
A.P.H.
CUE TYPES.
At the present moment, when the billiard professionals are contesting the palm and Mr. S.H. FRY has re-captured the title of amateur champion seven-and-twenty years after he first won it, there is such interest in the game that a kind of Guide to Billiard Types cannot but be of value. Hence the following classification of players who are to be met with in clubs, country-houses or saloons by any ordinary wielders of the cue. Any reader who has ever endeavoured to master what may be called (by way of inversion) the Three Balls Art has power to add to their number.
The player who, as he drops behind in the game, says so often that it is months since h" touched a cue that your success is robbed of all savour.