Excerpt from Billiards, Game, 500 Up: An Account of the Above Game, Illustrated by Diagrams, Showing the Position of the Balls for the Last Nine Breaks; Also One Hundred and Sixty-Three Diagrams Well Adapted for Practice; With General Observations At another time he was playing the non-cushion game, 16 up. On going off he twisted his ball into the corner pocket from the red, and won, in that manner, six games, his adversary not having a stroke! Desirous of ascertaining how many games of 24 up could be played within the hour, he commenced the task with a player of considerable eminence; and they completed thirty games within the specified time. Forty-seven games of 100 up were also played in eight hours and a half. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.