Return to Billiards
The Spectator, 25 January 1952 By J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P. Thirty-two years ago, almost to the hour, and perhaps to the very minute, I…
Billiards
The Spectator, 10 October 1896 The new “Badminton” volume maintains the high standard of excellence which the public has learned to demand from contributors to…
Playing Snooker for a Bishopric.
BILLIARDS ILLUSTRATED. March 9, 1910 The Duke of Landport is not strikingly generous, by any means, whatever other virtues he may possess. That he has…
A remarkable Billiard match
A remarkable Billiard match. Brentano’s Monthly. 1880 George F. Slosson At Tammany Hall, in this city, on the evening of October 4th, there was played…
“SNOOKER.” A POPULAR GAME ON THE BILLIARD TABLE
BY S. A. MUSSABINI. Round games on the billiard table have their fashions. At one time and another life pool, pyramids, shell-out, cork pool, and…
THE “YOUNG IDEA” AND BILLIARDS
It has been stated constantly of late that billiards is essentially a young man’s game, and yet the history of the Amateur Championship seems to…
THE HISTORY OF BILLIARDS
An investigation into the early history of billiards reveals the curious fact that while many English writers on the game attribute its invention to a…
A Billiards Cat
By Riso Levi, Author of “Billiards: The Strokes of the Game” He was just an ordinary black cat, but he was about the biggest torn…
Sketcher. Billiards.
“Let it alone; let’s to billiards; come Charmian.”—Anthony and Cleopatra. Shakespeare, in thus suggesting that the magnificent Egyptian was familiar with the game of games,…