Excerpt from Billiards, Game, 500 Up: An Account of the Above Game, With Diagrams, Showing the Position of the Balls for the Last Nine Breaks; Also One Hundred and Eleven Other Diagrams Well Adapted for Practice The object, however, in relating these particulars is to show the importance that was attached in those days to the superiority of winning-hazard striking, when combined with a knowledge of just and proper strengths, since the great success that attended the Baron arose principally from the skill he displayed in managing what is now termed the spot stroke for whenever the red ball was spotted, and the Baron's ball sufficiently near to present a certain hazard, the game was considered over. In those days (fifty years since), making seven red hazards in succession in the two corner pockets was deemed a masterly performance. 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.