The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 17
that any game resembling the modern one of the name existed at that period is very doubtful. Itbeen known in this country for about 300 year3; recentprovements have how- Aever so changed itscharacter that, prac-tically speaking, itmay be consideredalmost a game of mo-dern date; and as ourpapers are… … ther with the substitution of slate for wooden beds, and ofindia-rubber for list cushions, have so altered the game, that itcan hardly have been said before these changes were introducedto have been billiards except in name, and it must have borneabout the same resemblance to modern billiards as…
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