How To Play Billiards
eBook - ePub

How To Play Billiards

  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How To Play Billiards

About this book

This book is a complete guide to billiards, being a comprehensive handbook on every aspect of the game. With simple instructions and a wealth of invaluable tips, this book will be of utility to any level of player with an interest in improving their game. "How To Play Billiards" constitutes a timeless educational resource, and would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "An Indispensable Preliminary", "Swinging the Cue and Sighting the Stroke", "Plain Ball-Striking", "Angles Resulting from Plain Ball-Contacts", "Half-Ball and Other Contacts", "A New Method", "'Side', 'top' and 'Screw'", "Concerning 'Top', 'Screw' and 'drag'", "You and I Play Billiards", "Our Game Continued", "We Finish our Game", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on snooker, pool, and billiards.

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Information

Publisher
Giniger Press
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781447416630
eBook ISBN
9781528764254

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Billiards, Pool and Snooker
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. I An Indispensable Preliminary
  8. II Swinging the Cue and Sighting the Stroke
  9. III Plain Ball-Striking
  10. IV Angles Resulting from Plain Ball-Contacts
  11. V Half-Ball and Other Contacts
  12. VI A New Method
  13. VII “Side,” “Top” and “Screw”
  14. VIII Concerning “Top,” “Screw” and “Drag”
  15. IX You and I Play Billiards
  16. X Our Game Continued
  17. XI We Finish Our Game
  18. XII Break-Saving Strokes
  19. XIII Sundry Useful Strokes
  20. XIV Top-of-the-Table Billiards
  21. Index