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 421
h that obtained by their subse-quent contact and rebound from the cushion. It is essentially requisite, to constitute a good player, to acquirea perfect knowledge of the angles of the table, and consequently itwill repay the student to practise alone at the table, as we have in-dicated ; it will… … No. 8. The diagram marked No. 3 exhibits the same principle as thepreceding one, but with double or compound angles. There canbe no better test of the correctness of the cushions than a trial ofthese strokes. Thus, if stroke 2 had been played with increasedpower, the ball would have been pocketed…
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