The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 696
E. 299 difficult, and is very effective, is in reality a very easy one. Ofcourse, in all these strokes, we suppose the ball to be struck inthe centre, as, should there be any side on the ball, the ball willrebound from the cushion at an entirely different angle to whatit would were no side to… … Many a game would have been saved had this maxim beenalways followed. Cannon players should also be careful with regard to puttingon screw, especially on a table containing the usual cups. Screw may be denned as a rotatory motion of the ball on ahorizontal axis, in a direction contrary to that in…
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