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  • Thumbnail for Three-cushion billiards
    the game as well. The first three-cushion billiards tournament took place January 14–31, 1878 in C. E. Mussey's billiard room in St. Louis, with McCreery...
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    description USBA 3-Cushion Billiard Rules USBA 3-Cushion Billiard Rules Billiard Diamond System Calculator simulates cue ball path on billiard table...
    26 KB (2,998 words) - 21:49, 10 March 2024
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    different-sized billiard balls are used on these table types. An obsolete term is billiard board, used in the 16th and 17th centuries.: 27  Cushions (also sometimes...
    33 KB (3,957 words) - 11:23, 27 April 2024
  • Look up Billiard, billiard, or billiards in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Billiard or billiards may refer to: A billiard, a type of shot in cue sports...
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  • Thumbnail for One-cushion billiards
    10-by-5-foot (3.0 m × 1.5 m), pocketless billiard table with two cue balls and a third red-colored ball. In a one-cushion shot, the cue ball caroms off both...
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  • Thumbnail for Cue sports
    Cue sports (redirect from Billiard chalk)
    used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as cushions. Cue sports are...
    42 KB (5,040 words) - 19:21, 26 April 2024
  • the cushions. The bed is covered with billiard cloth like the cushions. The playing area of the table consists of the bed except where the cushion overhangs...
    376 KB (45,756 words) - 10:26, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Union Mondiale de Billard
    Union of Billiards) is the world governing body for carom (carambole) billiard games. The organization was founded in Madrid, Spain on 1 June 1959, and...
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  • billiard parlours with proprietors using posters to advertise the tournament events. In the 1870s, Wayman McCreery invented the game of three-cushion...
    12 KB (492 words) - 18:06, 9 February 2024
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    end of the table and get the ball to come to rest nearest the opposite cushion without lying against it earned the right to shoot for points first. This...
    18 KB (2,483 words) - 19:22, 26 April 2024
  • City (founded by Hugh W. Collender), to acquire Collender's patented billiard cushions. In 1884, the partners formed the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company...
    17 KB (1,717 words) - 20:40, 11 May 2024
  • States Billiard Association or USBA is the governing body for all professional carom billiards tournaments in the United States, especially three-cushion billiards...
    7 KB (73 words) - 21:31, 29 April 2024
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    Cue stick (redirect from Billiard cue)
    ball was frozen against a rail cushion, use of the mace was difficult (the foot would not fit under the edge of the cushion to strike the ball squarely)...
    27 KB (3,962 words) - 20:42, 11 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Efren Reyes
    the challenging one-pocket discipline. In 2003, he was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame. A winner of over 100 international...
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  • "Hoppe to Open Billiard Play" (fee required). San Mateo Times. 5 March 1952. p. 12. "Hoppe, Nine Other Billiard Aces, Entered in Three-Cushion Tourney" (fee...
    67 KB (7,052 words) - 05:34, 27 April 2024
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    Raymond Ceulemans (category World champions in three-cushion billiards)
    won 21 UMB three-cushion World Championship titles, more than any other player. Along with 48 European titles (23 in three-cushion) and 61 national titles...
    12 KB (859 words) - 09:32, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eddy Merckx (billiards player)
    professional three-cushion billiards player. In the year 2006, he beat Nikos Polychronopoulos 3–1 to win the world title in three cushions billiards. In 2007...
    7 KB (530 words) - 09:42, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Four-ball billiards
    fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to...
    6 KB (808 words) - 17:54, 2 May 2022
  • Thumbnail for Straight rail
    is played on a pocketless unmarked billiard table, usually 10 by 5 feet (3.0 m × 1.5 m) in size, and three billiard balls, one, usually white, that serves...
    6 KB (819 words) - 20:51, 15 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Bottle pool
    Bottle pool (redirect from Bottle-billiard)
    Rules and Records Book of the Billiard Congress of America, as of 2006, bottle pool was known only to be the billiard sport of general choice at a few...
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