The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-26
THE GAME OF POOL.
How the Different Games are
Played.
NOT 4 VERY INTRICATE GAME.
lts Simplicity Makes II More Popular
Than BiiIissds-The Centissous
Game . Test Of Ability.

Gans . Test Of Ability.
New York snn
The games OF POOL and billiards have in
creased in popularity in this country TO .
surprising extent during the last twenty
years. Billiards has been more or less OF .
popular indoor or winter game for many
years, but pool has suppIanted it -
general amusement on account of its being
so much easier to play. Room keepers
began TO encourage pool about fifteen years
ago. There was need for it. and nothing
can better exemplify the truth OF this
assertion than the fact that there are more
who are expert at pool than at billiards
The simplicity Of pool makes 1t popular.
for there is nm absence OF the intricacies
which are found In billiards. There are
several different styles Of the game. They
are known as pyramid, sixty-one and con-
finuous. Other minor styles are Chicago
pool. forty-one and high-ow-jack. All OF
these six games are governed, so far as Ell
pertuess is concerned, by the general priE-
ciples Of ordinary or pyramid pool, / e.,
the halls must he pocketed.
Pyramid pool is played with sixteen balls
on table which has six pockets, one at
each corner and one at the center OF each
SIDE. The ordinary size OF the table is =
by feet, but the standard or regulation
size is S by 10 feet. The pockets vary in
size. and the smaller they are the harder
the game. The corner pockets are any
where from ~ TO 5 inches wide, and the
side pockets are about Il inch wider than
the corner ones on the same table. Some
of the professional experts play in practice
with pockets smaller than these, and one
table which was owned by the late Albert
Frey had smaller pockets which measured
only III inches The balls are about the
size of the ordinary billiard sphere, al
though they are In most rooms about
one-sixteenth OF an inch smaller.
A game that does away with the objec-
tionable features OF the usual pool game is
the one called continuous" which came
into vogue several years ago, and was in
troduced in a professional tournament.
The rules. so far as pocketing the balls is
concerned, are about the same as any
other style. but the games generally con-
siss OF anywhere from 50 10 $50 points. and
the points are counted just the same as in
game of billiards. The numbers on the
balls have nothing to do with the game,
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=. Ma'oae, 'nc cs'eofaseu ploseSsiona.
eApe'', y nln uesicvef IA Tue fairness u
ne cona'nuous aA"s. as an example
oi no" Hucn superior II - LOT arriving ~
one aoiiity, nc teiis now ne ana the iate
Albert Frey we're paying tho Ola game OF
siAty-ohe pooi ana ne managed 70 pocket
se' nais. "hich III All ala not aggregate
siAty-ohe' ahu 'nen Frey secured the otnef
nSe ana won the series. Iney were play
ing the best eleven In twenty-one games,
and previous to this last game the score
stood ten each, and yet Frey won. An en-
tnusiast remarked after the series that Ma
lone pocketed ut least twenty balls more
than Frey during the whole series, for he
had kept count This, so Malone says, set
him TO thinking, and challenged Frey to
play game OF his own construction. which
was 100 points TO constitute a game, each
was to count point. as in billiards.
Frey agreed, and Malone won by score of
90 to Isl. Another point Is that under the
old rules when player required only eight
balls TO win interest in the contest Jagged il
his unlucky opponent made break and
left the balls in such position that any
amateur could secure the victory. In con-
unuous pool u Is TO the players advantage
10 clean tie table. The possibility OF max
ing frequent long runs In the continuous
game adds To the interest and notwith-
standing one player might have big lead
there IS always hope ieit for the hind man
TO catch him.
Another feature oil this style Is that
science IS much more often displayed than
In The other games, Tor II Is much harder
TO rocket tue last hve or SIX balls OF a
frame than the hrst seven OF eight, on ac-
count OF having a less hnmoer 10 play Tor
posiuon on.
thicsge pool Is the sixty-one game, only
the oasis nave 10 ne taken on IN numerical
oFaer. ihey are spread around the table
asa'hs. Tue cushions, Opposite tue sinaii
ivory oiahohas on ,s'e WOODEN edge. ihe
game = opened of tne l oai eeLng shos at
ssssr asa' u pocAessa tue : Dai Is taken,
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