Balkline is the overarching title of a group of carom billiards games generally played with two cue balls and a red object ball on a cloth-covered, 5 foot...
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Carom billiards (section Balkline)
(chronologically by apparent date of development): straight rail, one-cushion, balkline, three-cushion and artistic billiards. Carom billiards is popular in Europe...
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Cue sports (section Balkline)
without pockets, typically ten feet in length, including straight rail, balkline, one-cushion carom, three-cushion billiards, artistic billiards, and four-ball...
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to pool, Reyes has played international carom billiards, specifically balkline, one-cushion, and three-cushion. Reyes was born in Pampanga, Philippines...
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the playing surface. Other grid patterns are used in various forms of balkline billiards. A recent table marking convention, in European nine-ball, is...
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nature of straight rail led to the development of balkline, where the table is divided by balklines into balk spaces where only a certain number of points...
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billiards pentathlons, the other four games being 47.1 balkline, straight rail, 71.2 balkline and three-cushion billiards. Shamos, Michael Ian (1993)...
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in turn developed from straight rail billiards for the same reason that balkline also arose from straight rail. Such new developments made the game more...
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three forms of carom billiards: three-cushion, (four sub-disciplines of) balkline and one-cushion caroms. He died on February 1, 1959, in Miami, Florida...
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known to be in the United States in 1912, beating Ora Morningstar in a balkline tournament and in 1913, participating in the world championship and winning...
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