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 417
to the contact of the ballswhen the point of that contact is the exact centre of each ball;when, to the eye, placed on a level with a line drawn through thocentre of the cue ball, it would completely mask the object ball, or,to borrow an illustration from astronomy, when they are in apposi-tion.… … when the cue ball strikes thcontact. The angle formed taken place. This will be seen3 that the course of the object ball,after being struck full, or, fully,(to speak more grammatically,though less technically,) is a pro-longation of the right line drawnthrough the centre of both balls. Half ball is…
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