A stroke by which a player pockets the red ball from the billiard spot, at the same time bringing his own ball into position to pocket the red again, when the latter is replaced on the billiard spot.
If the billiard spot be occupied, the red ball must be placed on the pyramid spot, or, if that also be occupied, on the centre spot.
By the Billiard Association Rules, this stroke, "if properly made, is fair, and the referee is the proper person to decide the matter.
When the red ball is again pocketed it shall be placed on the billiard spot.
The billiard spot, S, is 12-3/4 inches from the centre of the top cushion, opposite to the baulk.
This game is played on a Billiard Table, and may be played by any number of players.
The red ball is, at the opening of every game, placed on the billiard spot, and must be replaced after being pocketed or forced off the table.
By Billiard Association rules, when two object balls are struck simultaneously, the stroke shall be scored as if the white had been struck first.
At this point, should you desire to proceed with a billiard ball trick, you can do so by changing the hollow ball for a solid one in the same manner that you changed the solid ball for the trick one in the "Multiplying Billiard Balls.
For the series of tricks hereafter described, you will require two solid billiard balls, and a case to contain one of the balls, consisting of two hemispheres of thin spun brass hinged together.
This forms an excellent conclusion to a billiardball trick.
The following preparations must be made:-- A small rabbit is placed in the right hand profonde, and a billiard ball and a small dinner plate are laid on the table.
A billiard ball is placed in a small tumbler, which is in turn wrapped in a piece of newspaper and deposited in a borrowed hat.
The necessary accessories are a red, a black, and a white billiard ball, all solid.
This forms a very good introduction to a billiard ball trick, all that is required being a ball of the usual size, hollowed out so as to take a handkerchief, with an opening one inch in diameter on the surface.
The performer then takes a small silk handkerchief and rolls it up in his hands, when it is seen to have become transformed into a billiard ball.
The apparatus consists of a piece of one and one-half inch brass tubing about seven inches long, with a cap of the same metal fitting loosely over one end; also two billiard balls about the size of the diameter of the tube.
In addition to these paraphernalia you will require two india-rubber balls to match in size and color the ordinary billiard balls.
This sleight can very well be introduced at the close of the Diminishing Billiard Balls.
Or the Prime Minister entirely supports Hook," said Horne Fisher, and began idly to knock the balls about on the billiard table.
The rest drifted toward the billiard room, Fisher merely remarking to the lawyer: "They won't be long.
The unspeakable idiots inside were crowding to the windows, climbing over each other's backs behind the blinds, billiard cues and all.
The tension of expectation could be measured by the profundity of the silence that fell upon the very click of the billiard balls.
Hermann was sitting quite alone in the large, wooden room with the two lifeless billiard tables shrouded in striped covers, mopping his face diligently.
The sound of cannoning billiardballs is heard] Who's that knocking the balls about?
There comes a mingled sound through the opened door, of female voices, laughter, and the click of billiard balls, dipped of by the sudden closing of the door.
For instance, the billiard player is the physical cause of the motion he imparts to the balls by means of the cue.
When a billiard ball in motion strikes another at rest it communicates some or all of its motion to the other, and that is all: nothing simpler!
Foster), took credit to himself for having put down billiard tables in Nashville.
Turning to the negro, he said: "Go down to the billiard room and see if Mr. Yates is there.
Opposite rose a straight staircase, and on the left a gallery overlooking the garden led to the billiard room, through whose door one could hear the click of the ivory balls.
Fancy a century of the world's energy wasted in seeing you balance billiardcues on the end of your nose!
But you, my dear fellow--with your fifty billiard cues on top of your nose?
They lived together, and asked for a billiard table to amuse themselves; the table was set up in the apartments of the major, and there these gentlemen went for their games.
La Rouerie asked for a billiard table for himself and his friends, and he got it.
They all went to the billiard room soon after dinner, and Fräulein and Mary sat by the fire looking on, while the two young men played.
Mary dared not touch either piano or billiard balls, and was naturally seized with a longing to touch both.
Mary went down to the billiard room, where she found her brother and her lover engaged in a hundred game.
They went downstairs, and through the billiard room to the terrace, and from the terrace to the tennis lawn, where John Hammond sat reading Heine nearly a year ago, just before he proposed to Lesbia.
Also, the Galla, a wandering tribe of Africa, make large use of food balls, about the size of billiard balls, consisting of pulverized coffee held in shape with fat.
These prototypes of the modern food tablet are about the size of a billiard ball, and consist of pulverized coffee held in shape with fat.
The little plain they had chosen for their nap was as flat as a billiard table and quite bare of grass.
Portions of the country between Lakes Winnipeg and Winnipegosis, visited by our party, are as flat as the flattest portions of New Jersey, and for great distances nothing could be more level except possibly a billiard table.
At the bottom they separated, the man in the white waistcoat sentimentally to the billiard room, the old ladies to dine and say to each other: "A dear little woman!
You take my advice and have a billiard table here!
Mr. Andrews was the most devoted adept of this game that ever nature produced; he seemed but to vegetate in a Billiard Room, and, indeed, he did little more in any other place.
He was a perfect Billiard Valetudinarian, in the most rigid significance of the expression.
As to its size: Imagine a billiard ball magnified to the size of the earth.
Its constituent atoms would be the actual size of billiard balls, but the electrons of which each atom is composed would still be too small to be seen with the naked eye.
In the accompanying engravings, we illustrate two important improvements in the construction ofbilliard tables, which have recently been devised by Mr. H.
A plate or sign is also added on which the number of a table--in case several tables are employed, as in a billiard saloon--may be inscribed.
Collender, the well known billiard table manufacturer of this city.
The annexed engraving represents an improved chalk cup or holder for billiard tables, which is so constructed that it will not become loose, sag down, mar the table, or jar when the ball strikes the cushion.
The device is very simple, and its advantages will be evident to all billiard players cognizant of the defects of the ordinary cup.
It won't matter if you miss one evening at the billiard place.
Humphrey didn't give up his friends at the Central Billiard Palace all at once, but he did confine his visits to that place to two or three evenings a week.
That it was Sunday explained Humphrey's presence at home, for he spent most of his evenings in or around the Central Billiard Palace, so far as Ira could make out.
The billiard table, as a Sabbath breaker can beat any coal-breaker in Pennsylvania, and give it 30 in, the game.
Our bosom friend and life preserver, Tom McDonald, is along, and proves to be quite an expert with the billiard cue, giving his opponent, Dr.
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