The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 338
a pleasant half-hour. While speaking of public contests, it may be well to mention,for the help of aspirants to laurels, that the chief tournamentof the year is held at Wimbledon in the early part of July, atwhich the gentlemen play for a handsome fifty-guinea challengecup, besides second and third… … If you watch a professional billiard player on the eve of amatch, you will see him advance to the table, and spin a ballup and down it, and his experienced eye tells at a glance the strength of the table. In like manner, any prudent croquet player before startingin a game, will take care to make…
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