The hand-book of games : comprising new or carefully revised treatises on whist, piquet, ecarté, lansquenet, boston, quadrille, cribbage, and other card games : faro, rouge et noir, hazard, roulette : backgammon, draughts : billiards, bagatelle, American bowls, etc. etc. (1850)
Bohn, Henry G. (Henry George), 1796-1884, editor, Harrison & Sons, printer · London : Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden · leaf 548
526 BILLIARDS. when it is expedient to use only a very moderate degree of strength. Fig. 21. Fig. 22. Fig. 23. … A diagram will render the utility of this mode of striking more obvious than a verbal description. Let a, fig. 21, be the striker’s ball, and the object of the stroke a canon. Now it will be evident in the position of the three balls delineated, that this purpose can by no means be effected in the…
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