Billiards, Game, 500 Up

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Excerpt from Billiards, Game, 500 Up: An Account of the Above Game, With Diagrams, Showing the Position of the Balls for the Last Nine Breaks, Also One Hundred and Eleven Other Diagrams Well Adapted for Practice I have been given to understand, within the last few months, that Mr. Roberts, Superintendent of the Billiard Rooms at the Union Club in Manchester, is considered by his friends of that neighbourhood to be equal to any player in Europe, and, in order to a¿'ord me an opportunity of judging of his skill, balls have been placed in situations of considerable difficulty, and I have been assured that hazards thus presented came quite within his power of cue. I have also been informed that, in playing a game of 100 up, his opponent, aware of, and dreading, his ability, ran a coup at 96 love, hoping, by so prudent and cautious a proceeding, to insure winning the game. Mr. Roberts, playing from the baulk circle, twisted into one of the corner pockets from the ball upon the spot, and made, from a break so unpromising, 102 points from the red ball alone! The greatest number of points made off the balls by this extraordinary player was 208. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.