CONTENTS
Reading edition
CHAPTER PAGE
Introduction 1
I. History of Billiards 6
By Sydenham Dixon.
II. Implements 55
By Archibald Boyd.
III. Elementary: One-ball Practice 104
With Memorandum by Dudley D. Pontifex.
IV. Motion, Impact, and Division of Balls: Two-ball Practice 130
V. Plain Strokes, Winning and Losing Hazards, Cannons: Three-ball Practice 142
VI. On the Rotation of Balls 189
VII. Miscellaneous Strokes 215
VIII. The Spot Stroke 264
IX. Safety and Baulk Play 283
X. Breaks 300
With Memoranda by Archibald Boyd and R. H. R. Rimington-Wilson.
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XI. The Championship and the Three-inch Pocket Table 362
With Memorandum by Russell D. Walker
XII. The Rules of the Game of Billiards 374
XIII. Pyramids, Pool, and Country-House Games 387
By W.J. Ford
XIV. Miscellaneous Notes 436
Index 447
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