The American Hoyle, or, Gentleman's hand-book of games: containing all the games played in the United States, with rules, descriptions, and technicalities, adapted to the American methods of playing (1864)
Dick, William B. (William Brisbane), 1827-1901, Hoyle, Edmond, 1672-1769 · Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 415
he side on which it has beenstruck. The diagram on the next page represents the billiard ball facingthe student. Within it are drawn four diameters; one perpendic-ular to the bed of the table, one parallel to it, and two diagonalsdrawn at equal distances from the horizontal and perpendicular 406… … centric circle with a radius of six-eighths of the whole diameterwould intersect. The perpendicular and horizontal are subdividedinto eighths, a subdivision which the pupil himself may apply tothe same diagonals. The ball when struck one-quarter or one-half above the centre onthe perpendicular line…
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