Talk:Cyrille Dion

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"Maurice Daly beat Cyrille Dion at Billiards, making the astonishing average of 125."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=14120378|format=fee required|title=Billiards|work=The Daily Milwaukee News|date=December 19, 1871|page=1|accessdate=June 1, 2010}}</ref>

Dion owned a pool room, "Cyrille Dion's 26 Broadway llth St. inst."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=14120378|format=fee required|title=Grand Billiard Exhibition Will Be Given|work=The New York Herald|date=July 10, 1872|page=2|accessdate=June 1, 2010}}</ref>

"On Wednesday evening last John Deery, the billiard player, accompanied by a friend named John Mack, entered the billiard saloon of Cyrille Dion, in Broadway, opposite City Hall Park, and at once assaulted the latter gentleman. Deery and Mack appeared at the Tombs Police Court yesterday to answer the charge and Judge Hogan held them to bail on their own recognizance for their future good conduct."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=14128779|format=fee required|title=New York City|work=The New York Herald|date=September 10, 1872|page=3|accessdate=June 1, 2010}}</ref>

John Deery has challenged Cyrille Dion to play an American four-ball game of billiards for the championship and $500 a side. He yesterday deposited a forfeit of $250 in the hands of Chris. O'Connor, to bind the challenge.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://newspaperarchive.com/PdfViewerTags.aspx?img=161866036|format=fee required|title=News in Brief|work=Boston Daily Globe|date=October 19, 1872|page=4|accessdate=June 1, 2010}}</ref>

First pool championship

The game played at the first championship of pool is fifteen-ball pool. I wonder if that game is the same as rotation? 98.119.155.81 (talk) 00:38, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Hey. No it's a different game. Rotation is well a "rotation game" – like nine-ball and ten-ball. In them you have to contact the balls in order (lowest to highest typically). You're right that there is a point of similarity, because in rotation you count the face number of the ball toward a point total, and 61 is a win because it more than half of the possible points available, but fifteen ball is not a rotation game; you can shoot at any ball. Think of it as a single rack of straight pool but instead of getting a point for each ball you get instead the value of the ball.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:02, 18 April 2015 (UTC)