Billiards
There is a general impression that thousandbreak billiards is something for amateurs to look at and admire, but not to emulate. This is so far true that I suppose I must be right in saying that no living amateur has ever made a thousand break, certainly not in public. But this, as I mean to prove, is due to nothing except lack of a true knowledge of the correct moves of the game. My record entitles me to speak with authority on the scoring of four-figure breaks, and I say without hesitation that a few of the best of our amateurs ought to be scoring thousand breaks at the present time, while hundred-break amateurs should be almost the rule instead of the decided exception.
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