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Chapter X: Part II: Plate XIII (8)

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Games:
Four-ball, 208 to 236;
Three-ball, 237 to 260;
Champion’s, 261 to 263;
Balkline, 264 to 319;
Cushion Caroms, Straight and Triple, 320 to 336;
Fifteen-ball Pool, 339 to 354

Gaslight, height of, 9, 10

Gathering shots illustrated, 78 to 84, 150, 156 to 165

Habits, discarding wrong ones, 19, 20

Half massé, 39

Handicapping, 202, 203

Heavy cue, 24

Height of gas, 9, 10

Higham, Linley, 8

Historical, 4 to 8

Hollanders, 5

How to build a room, 9

How to hold a cue, 25, 26

Huguenots, 5

Illustrated caroms, 47 to 199

Incidence, angle of reflection and, 55 to 57

Introductory, 1 to 3

Ivory balls, care of, 14 to 18

Jump, its cause and prevention, 14, 39, 40

Kiss draw, 196, 197

Kiss follow, 196, 197

Kiss shots illustrated, 67, 123, 137, 138, 141, 144, 147, 163, 185,
193, 196, 197

Knights-Templar, 5

Ladies’ attitude at play, 22, 23

Learning from a book, 20

Leathering cues, 13

Machinery of billiards and its care, 9 to 18

Manual:
Part I., 19 to 70;
Part II., 71 to 199

Massé, 35, 37, 39, 68, 69, 148, 149, 166, 167, 198, 199

Mental drawing of angles, 56, 64

Methods of twist, 33

Mingaud, Capt., 6

Monasteries as a billiard cradle, 5

More, Cathire, 4

Movements of arm and wrist, 22

Natural angles vs. false, 92, 93

Nationalities, various, as players, 4 to 7

N. Y. City’s early English billiards, 5, 6

Nursing or holding the balls, 35

Object-ball, 40;
divisions of, 41 to 44;
driving, 100, 103, 104, 124 to 129, 134, 143, 177, 186

Objective point in calculating angles, 108

Object of play in all strokes, 72

Oiling balls, 17

Opening stroke, 72

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