The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 696
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… … Fig. 1. Fig. 2. motion existed. Side can be put on to a ball at will, by strikingit on either side of the centre of the ball in a horizontal linewith that centre. Players on small bagatelle boards, where the balls are alsonecessarily small,, would do well to avoid ever putting on side,as in all…
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