The American Hoyle; or, Gentleman's hand-book of games: (1874)
[Dick, William Brisbane] [from old catalog] · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · leaf 420
obtained by their subse • quent contact and rebound from the cushion. It is essentially requisite, to constitute a good player, to acquire a perfect knowledge of the angles of the table, and consequently it will repay the student to practise alone at the table, as we have in¬ dicated ; it will give… … The diagram marked No. 3 exhibits the same principle as the preceding one, but with double or compound angles. There can be no better test of the correctness of the cushions than a trial of these strokes. Thus, if stroke 2 had been played with increased ^ower, the ball would have been pocketed in…
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