Billiards in the Twentieth Century
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Billiards in the Twentieth Century

  1. 372 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Billiards in the Twentieth Century

About this book

This antiquarian volume contains a guide to billiards written by the premiere twentieth-century authority on the subject; Riso Levi. This accessible book contains a wealth of information that would be of considerable utility to the modern snooker or pool enthusiast, and will be of special interest to collectors of antiquarian sporting literature. The chapters of this volume include: "The Manufacture of Tables", "Great Players I Have Watched", "Professionals versus Amateurs", "Billiards for Woman", "A Billiards-Table Problem", "An Astonishing Feat with Billiard Balls", "A Challenge from Willie Smith and my Reply", "A Hundred in Four Minutes", "Composition Ball", etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on billiards, pool, and snooker.

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Information

Publisher
Obscure Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781406799262, 9781443737425
eBook ISBN
9781447486688

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. The Manufacture of Tables
  6. I. Great Players I have Watched
  7. II. Professionals v. Amateurs
  8. III. Billiards for Women
  9. IV. A Billiards-Table Problem
  10. V. An Astounding Feat with Billiards Balls
  11. VI. A Challenge from Willie Smith and My Reply
  12. VII. A Hundred in Four Minutes
  13. VIII. Composition Balls
  14. IX. Billiards Compared with Other Games
  15. X. The Ideal Temperament
  16. XI. The Billiards Stance
  17. XII. Past and Present Styles
  18. XIII. What Constitutes Good Cueing?
  19. XIV. Brandishing the Cue
  20. XV. The Value of One’s Own Cue
  21. XVI. Billiards-Table Cloths
  22. XVII. The Best Practice Stroke
  23. XVIII. The Long In-off after the Balls are Touching
  24. XIX. Slight Variations from Half-ball Contacts
  25. XX. The Angles of Large and Small Balls
  26. XXI. Tightening the Cue Hold
  27. XXII. The Billiards Sense
  28. XXIII. Commencing a Game
  29. XXIV. Red-Ball Play
  30. XXV. A Little-known Cannon
  31. XXVI. The Question of Transmitted Side