Billiards
by William Broadfoot
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About this eBook
- Author
- Broadfoot, William, 1841-1922
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: Longmans, Green and co.,1896.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- GV: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Recreation, Leisure
- Subject
- Billiards
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 68289
- Release Date
- June 11, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.BILLIARDS
- 2.DEDICATION TO H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.INTRODUCTION
- 7.CHAPTER I HISTORY OF BILLIARDS
- 8.CHAPTER II IMPLEMENTS — THE ROOM — VENTILATION — LIGHTING — Note by Major Broadfoot — TABLES — ORDINARY TABLE — CHAMPIONSHIP TABLE — CUSHIONS — CLOTHS — TO ERECT A TABLE — BRUSHING AND IRONING — UNDERSIZED TABLES — BALLS — CUES, HALF-BUTTS, RESTS, ETC. — TIPS — HALF-BUTTS — RESTS — CHALK — MARKING BOARD — POOL BASKET — THE HALF-BALL ANGLE
- 9.CHAPTER III ELEMENTARY: ONE-BALL PRACTICE — MEMORANDUM
- 10.CHAPTER IV MOTION, IMPACT, AND DIVISION OF BALLS: TWO-BALL PRACTICE
- 11.CHAPTER V PLAIN STROKES, WINNING AND LOSING HAZARDS, CANNONS: THREE-BALL PRACTICE
- 12.CHAPTER VI ON THE ROTATION OF BALLS
- 13.CHAPTER VII MISCELLANEOUS STROKES
- 14.CHAPTER VIII THE SPOT STROKE
- 15.CHAPTER IX SAFETY AND BAULK PLAY
- 16.CHAPTER X BREAKS — EVERY-DAY BILLIARDS — SOME NOTES ON ‘THE TOP-OF-THE-TABLE′ GAME
- 17.CHAPTER XI THE CHAMPIONSHIP AND THE THREE-INCH POCKET TABLE — The Billiard Championship
- 18.CHAPTER XII THE RULES OF THE GAME OF BILLIARDS
- 19.CHAPTER XIII PYRAMIDS, POOL, AND COUNTRY-HOUSE GAMES — PYRAMIDS — SHELL-OUT — POOL — THREE-POOL — SINGLE POOL — BLACK POOL — BLACK AND PINK POOL — SNOOKER — THE MARKER — COUNTRY-HOUSE GAMES — SELLING POOL — CORK POOL — NEAREST BALL POOL — SKITTLE POOL
- 20.CHAPTER XIV MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
- 21.INDEX
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