WHAT T H EY A S Y . Th e game of three cushions shows execution . t a s no t I w known in my time . Th e diagrams of my straight- rail nurse are correctly drawn . - K . m . T h e three cushions diagra s are 0 , as also that showing the strangle hold I got on Roberts . Th e work i s something new in billiard litera ture . Th e idea of the book is all right . 0 Th e article o n the Amateur Championship is a good o ne . Nothing c a n be wrong tha t conduces t o per p e t u a t e and improve the game of three cush ions . U se my name in any w a y looking t o the good o f billiards . ‘W é . C H A M P I O N S H I A R D B I L L S . OL D A N D N E W C ON TAI N I N G DI A GRAMS O F 1 00 T H R EE - C US H I O N S H OT S ; ’ S C H AE FER S S T RAIGH T - RAIL N U R S E ; AL L N U R S I N G P T I O ALL B K L I N l nd m ?v AL fi g C OR N R E GAME , 1 698 l f - H N A T H A T C H E R O . J , ushi n ar m ham i n o f hi 1 884 w nn r f t L i s Hand a C o C o C p o O o ( i e o S . ou i c p long est tournam ent o n ev er in the same 1 hae 887 ) beat. Sc o f c e OF 1 1 1898 3 ? of C H I C AGO AN D N E WY OR K R AN D M c y L L Y P U B S H S . A LI ER T o B E . H G C R I TN R , I G H P R I E S T O F T H E O B L I LD F V OR R N R S N E G U O I Y T U E , I N A P P R E C I AT I ON O F AN ART WH I C H H A S M A D E P OS S I B L E T H E P RE S ENT "LL O F B L L N I I AR S E C E E C E D , T H I S WOR K I S D E D I C AT E D B Y T H E A U TH OR . EN T TAB L E OF CONT S . Introduction of 3- C ushion Diagrams 1 1 14 Diagrams of 1 00 3- Cushion Shots 1 5 95 Champions o fAmerica 96 99 ? What H a s Become of th e Champions - 4 . Th e Story of the Championship , Ball l Best Records; 4 B a ll Game . - — 4 - 1 00 1 2 Tables of Tournaments , Ball Game 1 - f . The Story o the Championship , 3 Ball - Best Records , 3 Ball Game . - 1 1 — 1 Tables of T ournaments, 3 Ball Game " 3 32 Th o e Story of the Champi nship , the ’ Champion s Game . ’ Best Records , Champion s Game . ’ o f T m Table ourna ent , Champion s Game — 1 37 The Story of the Championship , Cushion Caroms . Best Records , Cushion Caroms . Tables Of T ournaments, C u sh i o n C a r ' oms Th e Story of the Championship , Balk Line . Best Records, Balk Line . T T L — ables of ournaments , Balk ine 149 1 64 - Th f e o L . Advent Ives , Balk ine n Best Records Since October 28, 1 891 ( o / e lse t o — where be found complete) - 1 64 1 81 Tables of Tournaments Since Novem ber , 1 893 Shortstops at Their Best Billiards Can Be Taught Su ggestions t o Novices 6 T h e Amateur Championship of Am eric ' All Kinds o f B a lks Diagrams of the Various Methods Checking Speed “ ” T h e Albany Pony in E ngland Th e Ives - Roberts Match in E ngland 217 — 224 T h e J o h nso nx-xR e e v e s Match at Cushion r Caroms (biggest , betting game eve known in the United States) fl N e w Game of B illi a r d s F re nc h Corner R ecord Odds and Ends Bank Shots Fancy Shots Finger Billiards L ady Fancy Shot Player Armless Billiardist English Billiards American E xperts in E urope Foreigners in America Best H andicap Rub Nurse at Cushion Caroms K I SS I n Corner at Cushion Ca roms Definition of Shortstop Fournil I n America M anufac ture of Billiard Tables and u t c 240 C shions , e , M ichael Phelan in E urope F inale P R E F A C E ’ There is a st o ryto this e fi e c t : A t a ra ilwa v station in the far West a train pulled up to take n Off on wood , and the hungry passe ger j umped and ran to the lunch counter in th e nearest “ H a m shanty . There were displayed placards , “ E Sandwich , 1 0 cents Boiled ggs , 5 cents “ Apple Pie , 1 0 cents , and others of like kind . ’ Th e traveler hurriedly grabbed 30cents worth - of food and laid down a two dollar bill , which the greedy- eyed proprietor quickly threw into a drawer and calmly resumed his talk with his “ H e e crony . urry up , gimme my change y ll d “ H the tourist as he heard the bell ring . urry ” “ ’ u I sa "I . p, y shall be left You don t get th ink ” m n no back , sneered the restaurant a . “ ” o u t w o " I Why , gave y , dollars cried the ’ o I other . There are y ur signs , and have only ” “ ’ t t r th es e a lla r i h t c e s w o Y . eat en 30 n . , you r g ’ Move up , old pard , or you ll miss your train , a s f and , the passenger caught the platform o the last car , he heard the bandit sa yto his fel ” lo se e I . w, You , Jim , need money i s a u th o r in Akin the action of the , placing h e his wares before the public . T original idea w a s to print the diagrams of the th ree - cushion n m shots i pamphlet for , but the publishers were informed by their chief salesman that there would be a market for a record book of billiards somewhat more condensed than an y now commonly in use . 8 Th n e endeavor , the , has been to supply the wants of billiard lovers — themselves too busy t o search through larger books — and allow them to discover this or that record almost at a ne w glance . Given a author , fresh material m a . y be presumed Aside from the records , the matter herein co ntained can not be found else Where . That no rules have been inserted in this pub li c a t i On is no t , because the compiler does wish to still further complicate arguments which E can never be settled until , as in ngland , the r American billiard experts hold a meeting , e vise the old rules , and make such new ones a s the great impr ovement in the game o f. billi a rd s - fo r . T o . most imperatively. calls day mooted c a n a s points not be settled , authorities equally good disagree , and the bedrock upon which the code was first planted is overlaid \ with the accretions of alluvium‘ brought from fields of t ‘ thought widely dis ributed . In casting an eye over the records herein contained , the hyper “ I critical may cry , As supposed ; ever more ” " and more mistakes, arguing from the well ventilated knowledge of the imperfection in the records o f billiards ; and it is true that the writer h a s not reproduced to the fraction of a f fo r a hair the di ference in , instance , grand v ra e s e g . n n If the fault of repetitio be glari g , it may be said that the layman is much more apt to make a respectable bag when shooting into flocks rather than at single birds , T o g ive a general idea of the performance o f one billiardist as compared with that of another of 11 1 8 date is the I n aim sought , as well as by the presentation sequence of the various methods adopted to 9 l thwart the fi rst - class expert to advance the conception of the evolution of the noblest game Th e yet devised by man . matter herein con; n d t a i e has been prepared with great care , and the inevitable inaccuracies can easily be weeded out in a later edition . T o further this end the author asks all true lovers of billiards to interest themselves in se t ting him right . In the production of this work he h a s been materially aided by the experts of the first class , not only as regards the execution , o f o but in the j udgment the game .