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Modern Billiards A Complete Text-Book of the Game, Containing Plain and Practical Instructions How to Play and Acquire Skill at This Scientific Amusement

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Modern Billiards A Complete Text-Book of the Game, Containing Plain and Practical Instructions How to Play and Acquire Skill at This Scientific Amusement

by Benjamin Garno

EN·~8 hours·18 chapters

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18 total
1

E-text prepared by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)

0:20
2

MODERN BILLIARDS. A COMPLETE TEXT-BOOK OF THE GAME, CONTAINING PLAIN AND PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO PLAY AND ACQUIRE SKILL AT THIS SCIENTIFIC AMUSEMENT.

1:03
3

INTRODUCTORY.

3:59
4

HISTORICAL.

9:07
5

THE BILLIARD-ROOM.

16:15
6

PART I.

48:55
7

PART II.

1:02:17
8

CONDUCTING TOURNAMENTS.

11:44
9

BILLIARD RECORD: A Compendium of the More Important Public Contests, Match and Tournament, at Both Caroms and Pool. Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.

59:53
10

REGULAR THREE-BALL CAROMS.

49:53

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Modern Billiards A Complete Text-Book of the Game, Containing Plain and Practical Instructions How to Play and Acquire Skill at This Scientific Amusement A Complete Text-Book of the Game, Containing Plain and Practical Instructions How to Play and Acquire Skill at This Scientific Amusement

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en

Duration

~8 hours (468K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2019-03-28

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

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Benjamin Garno

b. 1840

A practical early-20th-century guide to billiards came from a writer remembered chiefly for making the game feel both teachable and mentally engaging. His surviving work mixes clear instruction with the sense that billiards was a skill to be studied seriously.

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