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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 423

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he diagram on the next page will furnish him two strokes forpractice in the production of simple angles from the object ball.Let him commence by making the angles across the table, as infigure 1; and when he can make them, and not before, proceed topractise the shot indicated in figure 2.… … We must impress upon the learner that he must strike the cueball exactly in the centre, in all cases, to produce simple angles.Until he is perfectly grounded in this centre stroke, he must avoidevery thing approaching to the twist with the greatest care. Toomany beginners, in their haste to play…

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