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

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ISBN 10: 1330092910 / ISBN 13: 9781330092910

Published by Forgotten Books Nov 2018, 2018

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• Title: Modern Billiards : A Complete Text-Book of the Game, Containing Plain and Practical Instructions How to Play and Acquire Skill at This Scientific Amusement (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books Nov 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330092910
• ISBN 13: 9781330092910
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 20D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1064 grams

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Excerpt from Modern Billiards

Apart from its inviting to moderate and wholesome exer cise, billiards, as popularly played, is pre-eminently a mental pastime. Nearly all its exponents Of approved skill, What ever were the drawbacks Of their youth, are intellectually quick and This is due in some measure to the ready mathematical requirements Of the play as a routine, but in a much greater degree to its taxing the eye, stimulating the fancy, and disciplining the mind by imposing watchfulness, invention, and analysis. Slowness is costly, and hence, as an early habit, an eager alertness Of Vision, alacrity Of step, and promptitude Of decision. Regarding billiards as' a spectacle, its physical requisites to perfection are keen Sight, level head and steady hand; but they are by no means essential to enjoyment Of it as a leisure-hour diversion en amateur. In this sense, its charm lies altogether in participation, which is all the more agree able and healthful because never needing to be exhausting. Caroming methods are still changing. Execution is again growing less fantastic and more practical. Systemization is becoming more and more dominant. In consequence, certain gathering shots, depicting instructive possibilities rather than downright needs, and diagrammed as still proper to teach when the earlier edition Of this book was issued, have no place in the present volume.