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Council.
BILLIARDS
The origin of billiards is rather indefinite, and no country can claim to have founded the game as the evidence adduced on the subject is too conflicting to convince.
Early in the seventeenth century, however, many specific references were made to a rudimentary form of the game; and in England, such allusions are plentiful.
Spenser refers to the game in his Mother Hubbard’s Tales, 1591, and as early as 1576, Mary, Queen of Scots, when a state prisoner, complained of being deprived of her billiard table. In 1634, one of the quaint engravings illustrating the Divine Emblems
of Francis Quarles depicts a form of billiards with maces instead of cues. James I ordered a billiarde bourde
in 1605 or thereabouts. References were also made by such famous authors as Ben Jonson, 1637; Evelyn, 1674, and Dr. Johnson, 1775. In France, Louis XIV favoured the game.
The modern form of billiards dates from the early nineteenth century, the first English treatise of a serious character being that of E. White, published 1807. The first professional champion of any account was Jonathan Kentfield, who published a book on the game in 1839. He relinquished his title in 1849 to John Roberts, Senior, father of the great John Roberts (Junior), known as the W. G. Grace
of billiards. John Roberts, Junior, dominated the game from about 1870 to well past the turn of the century.
The Amateur Billiards Championship originated in 1888, and it is now the chief event of the billiards season, snooker having ousted billiards to a great extent in the professional sphere.
THE GAME
Billiards is a game of skill played with three balls and cue, on an 8-legged table having six netted pockets.
The balls, two white and one red, must be equal in size and weight, and measure 2 1/16 / 2 3/32 inches in diameter. Today, most balls are made of crystalate, which displaced ivory during the late twenties.
Each player (there are invariably two only) takes one of the white balls. One of these white balls is marked with a black spot at each of its two poles
or extremities. This is called the spot
ball, or simply spot
; the other white ball is called plain.
The cue, which must not be less than 3 feet long, is usually about 4 feet 10 inches, and consists of a tapering piece of wood, generally ash. The butt-end (held in the hand) is a little over one inch wide, and the cue gradually tapers to a round top, on which a leather tip is glued. With this end the player strikes the ball, the tip being approximately 3/10 to 2/5 inches in diameter. A piece of special chalk is necessary for roughening the tip surface after each two or three strokes, as otherwise the tip would slide off when contacting the polished ball-surface. The length of a cue, its weight, and the