I bought a carom billiards table for $700 at the time.
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Patrick Sharp retrieved the carom and passed it to Faksa, who then scored.
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Strome's initial shot struck the far post, but Ladd slipped in the carom.
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But what mattered was the angle the ball happened to carom off Cionek.
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TIL about CAROM billiards, a game that looks much more difficult than regular billiards.
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In one typical four-page passage, we carom past Marx, Clausewitz, Fichte and Hegel.
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Both shots, Hopkins recalls, seemed to carom off exactly the same spot on the rim.
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Barkov collected the carom and lifted the puck over Brossoit's left pad for the goal.
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Yelich doubled off the wall in right, advancing to third when Kole Calhoun bobbled the carom.
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He fired at goal, and it took a carom off Poland's Thiago Cionek and zipped into the net.
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The ensuing carom fell to van Riemsdyk and he beat Niemi with a snap shot to the far post.
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Jordan Eberle had a shot carom off the top post and then had a putback attempt deflected by Georgiev.
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Ozuna tripled with two outs, lining the ball over the head of Turner, who also had trouble playing the carom.
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Niemi stopped the initial shot from Ian Cole, but Guentzel was waiting at the near post to knock in the carom.
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Thompson, however, was the first to the carom off the backboard, dropping the ball back into the hoop for the winner.
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Stars defenseman Jason Demers attempted to clear the puck off the carom near the far post but whiffed on the play.
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Damon Severson collected the carom and passed it to Smith-Pelly, who scored into the open net to make it 3-43.
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But watch them position themselves to collect that mid-air carom, and you'd see that they're clearly artists working in the same medium.
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As Rangers left fielder Ryan Rua misread the carom, fans began booing Beltran when he did not stretch the sharp hit into a double.
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With Pham on first after a one-out walk, Paul DeJong's double to the left field corner became a triple when Dickerson whiffed the carom.
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Pavelski was left alone to the left of the net and converted a carom of a directed pass off the back boards from Joel Ward.
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Murray denied a Klingberg wrister from the left circle with a pad save, but the carom fell to Ritchie and he scored from the high slot.
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Lundqvist denied a one-timer by Seguin from the right circle, but Sceviour was waiting to knock in the carom, which he did for the equalizer.
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Altherr played the carom perfectly in right field and got the ball to shortstop Kingery, whose throw home to catcher Alfaro beat Maybin, who did not slide.
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Robert Woodard II, however, saw his jumper at the buzzer carom off the back of the rim and the Sooners were able to escape with the win.
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Correa scooped up the carom and fired a throw to catcher Robinson Chirinos, who applied the tag on LeMahieu to end the inning and preserve the tie.
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But the two do move in tandem, sometimes displaying eerie parallels, sometimes intersecting in odd ways, and sometimes veering toward each other, only to carom in unpredictable directions.
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"This is too much of a carom shot for Putin to think he knows where that ball's going to end," Hayden said, speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington.
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As Zao's paintings start to carom stylistically toward the end of the show, you may wonder if his career is not a striking instance of talent subverted by ambition.
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Adams lofted a fly ball to right field that appeared to carom off a fan's hands and was played by Jose Bautista, who quickly pointed in the fan's direction.
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Jones made a foul shot with 4.4 seconds to play, then intentionally missed and grabbed the carom, sinking a 19-foot tying shot at the buzzer to extend the game.
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Gaudette tied it at 18:13 after the puck took an unlikely carom off the end boards and right to Gaudette in front of the net for an unassisted goal.
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They grabbed their first carom at the 19:02 mark, then failed to grab another board until a tip-in by sophomore guard Nick Weiler-Babb with 2:26 left.
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In the fifth, McCutchen saw Moustakas' fly ball carom off his glove in deep center field, allowing Braun to score from first base to boost Milwaukee's lead to 5-1.
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Doncic, however, saw his short floater carom off the front of the rim with 23 seconds remaining as the Mavericks saw their five-game winning streak come to a halt.
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Zach Bogosian fired a point shot well left of the net — but the opportunistic Larsson converted the hard carom off the end boards, putting the puck into the open side.
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It's absurd that the fate of the race, and the future of the nation, might carom this way or that based on a 90-minute television ritual so tainted by falsehoods.
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The ball took a long carom off the wall, center fielder Magneuris Sierra got to it and fired to shortstop Jon Berti, whose double clutch prevented any chance of getting Gordon.
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However, the All-Star had the ball carom off his glove as he charged to make a hurried play, and when the ball rolled into center field, Semien scored without a throw.
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It was the 2045th goal for Brouwer, who was at the net's right side and saw Pietrangelo's shot carom off his shin guard past helpless Predators goalie Pekka Rinne (21-20-224).
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When we see someone on the shooting team grab the carom, we generally won't know exactly how he did it, or what combination of foresight and muscle got him to the ball first.
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Jenner took a carom on a point shot by Nutivaara off the back wall at the side of the net and banked the puck off Rask's pads on his second attempt into the goal.
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Atomulesei was nicknamed "Vali Carambole" after carom billiards, the kind of billiards where the table doesn't have any pockets, a game popular among Romanians who didn't have access to the luxury pool tables in hotels.
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Hayes, who is forty-six, won the 2010 National Book Award and is a professor at N.Y.U. In his five books, he has perfected a sort of poem where wild jams carom inside arbitrary formal boundaries.
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Yet again on Monday, the English created chance after chance after chance only to see passing moves fizzle or crosses fly yards beyond their targets or a shot carom off the leg of a sliding defender.
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The Islanders did benefit from a fortunate carom, on a power play, when Mathew Barzal's cross-crease pass glanced off the blade of Carolina defenseman Jaccob Slavin's stick and past Mrazek at 13:17 of the first.
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So, seeing no teammates to pass the ball to, Belinelli bounced it off Morris' back then stepped inbounds to gather the carom, then launched a deeeeep three-pointer that banked off the backboard and dropped through the net.
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As we carom into the future, eyes blazing with neon heat and our minds racing through millions of permutations as the Matrix embeds itself into our brain stems I think we're all going to get a little peckish.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Snooker as well as two other cue sports - carom billiards and pool - deserves to be part of the Paris 2024 Olympic program, the secretary general of the newly-formed World Snooker Federation (WSF) said on Wednesday.
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Molina's one-hop hit appeared to bounce off a sign above the left-field wall and carom back into play, but Matt Carpenter kept running and scored from first, rather than advancing to third on a ground-rule double.
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He watched a potential double-play ball off the bat of Nelson Cruz carom off the bag at second and out of the reach of his infielders, allowing two runs to score as part of the Mariners' six-run third.
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The loss to the Lions was, however, the second straight game where Bortles had an interception carom off the foot of one of his players, so that will be a neat trick to impress teammates on the sideline next year.
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His shot was a good six feet wide of the net, but it took a strange carom off the end boards, hit Islanders forward Casey Cizakas in the leg, and then off the back of Lehner's glove and into the net.
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After his older brother, Jordie Benn, fired the puck off the end boards, Jamie Benn, who also had an assist, collected the carom and scored his 43st goal of the season on a wraparound 3:03 into the final period.
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Defenseman Jay Bouwmeester missed the net with a drive from the right circle, but the hard carom off the end boards went to an unmarked Zach Sanford, who banged home his third goal from the weak side at 5:213.
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Recalled Sunday to play in place of Brandon Carlo on the blue line, Lauzon scored his first NHL goal into an empty net at 17:51 when Subban came out to play a carom and failed to reach it before the defenseman.
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How else is one to carom from Mr. Etro's show to Massimo Giorgetti's for MSGM, the little-label-that-could that rocketed from Milan to 500-plus stores selling his collections (and six shops of his own) in just a handful of years?
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Although Wednesday was the urbanite's summer solstice — the day that New York City's 55 outdoor pools opened for the season and children could, at last, carom into the chlorine — the swimming season at the placid indoor pool in Williamsburg lasts all year.
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It fell to Pruitt to embody the entire Trump ethos — grab what you can, exploit your insider status, lift nepotism to an art form and carom through the corridors of power with flashing lights and screaming sirens — in one heedless, shameless bureaucrat.
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ST. PAUL — The tying goal was fluky, like so many can be in postseason college hockey — a rebound that appeared to carom off a Notre Dame defender to Michigan's Michael Pastujov, who lifted it over the shoulder of Irish goaltender Cale Morris.
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But the Lightning tied the game on a double-carom shot, as rookie defenseman Jake Dotchin's long shot went off a Carolina player's pad and then, as Johnson leaped to avoid the shot, it ricocheted off his skate and bounced past Lack to tie the game.
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Even if, as Trotz said, Orpik thought Maatta might emerge from his crouch, and even if Orpik did not intend to hit him that high, there is no possible reason, based on the angle of the shot, for thinking the puck would carom back to where Maatta was.
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Defenseman Roman Josi fired a wrist shot from between the faceoff circles wide of the net, but the puck took a lively carom off the end boards and Johansen flipped a backhander in front that went off the leg of Sabres defenseman Zach Bogosian and into the net.
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ET, FSN Carolinas, ROOT (Pittsburgh) ABOUT THE HURRICANES (23-22-8): Kris Versteeg scored against the Canucks for his third goal in four contests, although this also includes Tuesday's bank-shot tally that resulted from a fortunate carom off the glass before trickling down the back of Pittsburgh's Marc-Andre Fleury.
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RF Nick Markakis snapped a 0-for-9 stretch with a shot off the top of the left field wall to lead off the 10th inning on Friday night, but LF Adam Duvall barehanded the carom and got the ball quickly back to the infield, holding Markakis to a long single and setting up Matt Kemp's double-play ball.
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CAROM 1502: for black and colored technical articles, sanitary ware, rubber cloth, carpets. CAROM 1503: for consumer goods, especially footwear. CAROM 1712: for cable and yarn insulation, technical articles, tires and many other applications.
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Tournament poster of Sang Lee international Open inside of the Carom Café. Michael Kang is the co- founder of the Carom Café and friend of Sang Lee.
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One-cushion carom, or simply cushion carom, also arose in the late 1860s as another alternative to the repetitive play of straight rail, inspired by an early variant of English billiards. The object of the game is to score cushion caroms, meaning a carom off of both object balls with at least one rail cushion being struck before the hit on the second object ball. One-cushion carom is still popular in Europe.
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Hitting an opponent's carom captures it. Landing "out of bounds" (outside of the play area marked by the flags) allows the projectile to be recovered by the player. There is also a "king" carom for each team. King caroms allow players to capture more opponents, and can only themselves be captured by a king carom.
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Football, Cricket, Hockey, Volleyball, Throw Ball, Table Tennis, Boxing, Wrestling, Carom, Chess.
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A carom on only one ball results in no points, and ends the shooter's .
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The wood used in carom cues can vary widely, and the highest cues are handmade.
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Three-cushion billiards, also called three-cushion carom, is a popular form of carom billiards. The object of the game is to the off both and contact the at least three times before the last object ball. A point is scored for each successful carom. In most shots the cue ball hits the object balls one time each, although hitting them any number of times is allowed as long as both are hit.
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Christian Rudolph 2013 after winning his 9th German Championship in 3-cushion. Christian Rudolph (born 14 January 1965 in Cologne) is a German carom billiards player and multiple world champion in three-cushion billiards. He is the son of carom billiards champion Ernst Rudolph.
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The World Union of Billiards (UMB) is the highest international governing body of competitive carom billiards.
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Faroux was one of the best carom billiards players in the 1900-1920s. In 1905, he competed in his first world carom billiards championships, and at the 1907 event reached second place, which he accomplished again in 1910. In 1912 and 1919, he won the world championship title in this discipline. Since his motorsport interest often overlapped with the carom billiards interest, producing scheduling conflicts, he said in April 1926 that he would play in the world championships rather than the Targa Florio.
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Sakinalu is made of rice flour seasoned with small amounts of spices, sesame seeds, carom seeds (ajwain), and salt.
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Carom billiards cues tend to be shorter and lighter than pool cues, with a shorter ferrule, a thicker and joint, a wooden joint pin (ideally) and collarless wood-to-wood joint, a conical taper, and a smaller tip diameter. Typical dimensions are long, in weight, with an 11–12 mm diameter tip. The specialization makes the cue stiffer, for handling the heavier billiard balls and acting to reduce . The wood used in carom cues can vary widely, and most quality carom cues are handmade.
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These combine aspects of carom and pocket billiards, and are played on tables with pockets (often as s not targets).
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Edward Lancaster Lee (29 September 1905 – 18 May 1969) was an American professional carom billiards player from New York City.
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Carom billiard cues have specialized refinements making them different from the typical pool cues with which many people are more familiar. Carom cues tend to be shorter and lighter overall, with a shorter , a thicker and , a wooden joint (in high-end examples), and wood-to-wood joint (for a one-piece cue "feel"). They have a fast, conical , and a smaller diameter as compared with pool cues. Typical carom cues are in length and in weight – lighter for straight rail, heavier for three-cushion – with a tip in diameter.
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Five-pins game at the European Carom Billiards Championships 2015. Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins (Italian: ''''';Sezione Stecca: Organigramma della Sezione - Attività agonistica - Calendari - Regolamento Tecnico Sportivo, 2004–2005 , Federazione Italiana Biliardo Sportivo, 2004, Italy. Spanish: '''''), is today usually a carom billiards form of cue sport, though sometimes still played on a pocket table. In addition to the customary three balls of most carom games, it makes use of a set of five upright pins (skittles) arranged in a "+" pattern at the center of the table.
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Several companies made copies of Haskell's carrom game board. The Transogram Company made a version in the 1950s and called it Skooker. Coleco made reproductions in the 1980s with names like "Carom-playing Games Board" with up to 202 derived replication games. Some variants in the 1970s were called "101 Games Board" and "Carom-playing 166 Games Board".
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Pocketless carom billiards tables are used for such games as straight rail, balkline, one-cushion billiards, three-cushion caroms, and artistic billiards.
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Unlike in the major carom game three-cushion billiards, there is no requirement to hit one or more cushions at any time.
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The KGF Club in Oorgaum and the King George Hall Cosmopolitan Club were established providing faculties for badminton, tennis, cards, carom, snooker, etc.
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Carom billiards The Family Remy by Januarius Zick, c. 1776, featuring billiards among other parlour activities Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, billiard tables. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score or "counts" by ' one's own off both the opponent's cue ball and the on a single shot. The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th-century France.
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Ten-foot tables remain the standard size for carom billiard games. The slates on modern carom tables are usually heated to stave off moisture and provide a consistent playing surface. The length of the pool table will typically be a function of space, with many homeowners purchasing an table as a compromise. Full-size pool tables are 4.5 by (interior dimensions).
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The Institute is planning to have an Indoor Sports Complex, consisting of two badminton courts, Basketball courts in addition to Table Tennis, Carom and Chess.
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The United States Billiard Association or USBA is the governing body for all professional carom billiards tournaments in the United States, especially three-cushion billiards.
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Game variants include eight ball, nine ball, rotation, 14.1 continuous, bowlliards, cutthroat, carom billiards, poker, pocket game (a homage to the original game), and yotsudama.
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There are two main varieties of billiard games: carom and pocket. The main carom billiards games are straight rail, balkline and three cushion billiards. All are played on a pocketless table with three balls; two cue balls and one object ball. In all, players shoot a cue ball so that it makes contact with the opponent's cue ball as well as the object ball.
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The billiard table used for carom billiards is a pocketless version, and is typically . Most cloth made for carom billiard tables is a type of baize that is typically dyed green, and is made from 100% worsted wool, which provides a very fast surface allowing the balls to travel with little resistance across the table . The slate bed of a carom billiard table is often heated to about 5 °C (9 °F) above room temperature, which helps to keep moisture out of the cloth to aid the balls rolling and rebounding in a consistent manner, and generally makes a table play faster. A heated table is required under international tournament rules.
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Robert Byrne (May 22, 1930 – December 6, 2016) was an American author and Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame instructor of pool and carom billiards.
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Semih Saygıner (born November 12, 1964), nicknamed Mr. Magic or The Turkish Prince, is a Turkish world champion professional carom billiards player specialized in three-cushion event.
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Landing the caroms in different places of the playing field leads to differing results. Landing on the moat or castle grounds gets the carom captured and removed from play. Landing on the tower island turns the carom into a "spy", and it gets replaced with a corresponding figure. Landing in the battlefield allows the player to fire from that point, improving their chances of doing some damage to the opponents tower.
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Others of multinational interest are four-ball and five-pins. The most globally popular of the large variety of pocket games are Pool and snooker. A third, English billiards, has some features of carom billiards. English billiards used to be one of the two most-competitive cue sports along with the carom game balkline, at the turn of the 20th century and is still enjoyed today in Commonwealth countries.
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Fonsy Grethen Fonsy Grethen (born 20 September 1960 in Luxembourg City) is a Luxembourgianmunzinger.de carom billiards player. During his career, he won four world titles and thirteen European titles.
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A variation of four-ball called desítkový karambol (Czech for 'tenfold carom') is popular in Central Europe, especially in the Czech Republic. It is played with two white balls, a blue ball, and a red ball which serves as the cue ball for both players. Players score a point by hitting two of the other three balls with the cue ball. A carom off all three object balls in one shot, however, scores 10 points.
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There is a large array of carom billiards disciplines. Some of the more prevalent today and historically are (chronologically by apparent date of development): straight rail, cushion caroms, balkline, three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards. Carom billiards is considered obscure in the United States (being historically supplanted by pool), but is more popular in Europe, particularly France, where it originated. It is also popular in Asian countries, including Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Vietnam.
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Artistic pool is the competitive discipline of trick shots inspired by its carom equivalent. Played on pool or snooker tables, players must complete a set number of shots of varying difficulty.
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26 ("Pocket Billiards Index"). (Nine- ball did not appear until the 1967 edition.Official Rule and Record Book for All Pocket and Carom Billiard Games. 1967. Toledo, OH: Billiard Congress of America.
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Carom cues usually have a wood- to-wood joint, with a delicate threaded wooden pin, on the principle that this produces a better feel and weight balance, while pool cues most often have a metal joint and pin, since pool games tend to involve considerably more force, necessitating reinforcement. Snooker cues usually have a sunken metal joint, providing both strength and wood-to-wood contact. Carom and snooker cues are more often hand-made, and are more costly on average than pool cues, since the market for mass-produced cues is only particularly strong in the pool segment. High-end hand-made but non-custom carom and snooker cues are largely products of Europe and Asia, while their pool counterparts are mostly North American products.
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The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom (or carambole) billiards referring to the various games played on a billiard table without ; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool. There are also hybrid pocket/carom games such as English billiards.
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Cue sports evolved from ancient outdoor stick-and-ball games, generally referred to (retroactively) as "ground billiards", a game similar in various respects, and closely related to, modern croquet, golf and field hockey. Billiards has been a popular game since the 15th century. Carom billiards was long the most popular type of billiards, and remains an important international sport. Carom games, especially three-cushion, are intensely popular in many parts of Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America.
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Carom cues most often have a ferrule of brass, although phenolic resin and fiberglass are becoming more common. Pool cues usually have a ferrule of phenolic resin or fiberglass, although metal was formerly very common. Most snooker cues have a brass ferrule. Personal carom and pool cues are both typically jointed at the half-way point in the piece, while snooker cues most commonly are around two-thirds shaft and one third butt, requiring a longer carrying case.
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The company, founded by Alessandro Longoni in 1945, is based in Mariano Comense, Italy. Longoni makes cues customized for various carom billiards disciplines, including three-cushion, five-pin, and artistic billiards, as well as pool and Russian pyramid cues more recently. Over the years, several professional players, including Dick Jaspers and Niels Feijen, have helped design and develop new lines of Longoni carom and pool cues, respectively. As of 2014, Niels Feijen is still under contract with Longoni.
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Dingeman Jacobus Johannes "Dick" Jaspers (born 23 July 1965) is a Dutch professional carom billiards player who specializes in the three-cushion event.Players profile at the 2013 World Games. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
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The school provides several types of sporting activity such as cricket, football, carom chase, ludo etc. Both boys and girls participate in these sports. Moreover, this school take part in inter school competition.
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The hostels consist of both single and double occupancy rooms. The institute has multiple recreational centres, with a gym, table tennis table, badminton courts, basketball court, futsal court, and carom and chess amenities.
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Carom Shots () is a 1963 French comedy film directed by Marcel Bluwal. It was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. The French crime writer felt his novel had been betrayed by the filmmakers.
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Cochran sitting on a billiards table Welker Cochran (October 7, 1897 - July 26, 1960) was an American professional carom billiards player who won world titles in two different disciplines, balkline and three-cushion billiards.
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Jean Bessems (born 4 January 1945) is a former professional Dutch carom and artistic billiards player. Bessems won the Artistic Billiards World Championship in 1985 and 1988, and finished as runner-up in 1984.
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IIT also offers several sports and student organizations which help them develop into all round graduates. The sports offered at IIT are, Cricket, Rugby, Athletics, Swimming, Netball, Basketball, Badminton, Table Tennis, Tennis, Soccer and Carom.
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In its various incarnations, balkline was the predominant carom discipline from 1883 to the 1930s, when it was overtaken by three-cushion billiards and pool. Balkline is still popular in Europe and the Far East.
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Campus has a common room for Indoor Games such as Table Tennis, Foosball, Pool, Carom and Chess. College has a modern gym with a physical instructor. An aesthetic Infinity Café is located within the campus.
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Yasmine d'Ouezzan (born 9 January 1913 in Saint-Étienne, France, died 11 January 1997 in Paris, France) was a French carom billiards player. D'Ouezzan was the first woman to win the women's French Billiards championship in 1932.
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The World Pool-Billiard Association in concert with the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB) and various other governing bodies have established worldwide rules for a number of carom billiards games, including three-cushion, straight rail and five-pins. While there are, of course, locally popular games of various sorts that differ from region to region, the main games in the carom field are totally standardised. In the realm of pool, there are many associations which have issued rules for the various games over the years. Eight-ball in particular is a thorny issue.
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Various other games have their own variants of billiard balls. English billiards uses the same number of balls as carom billiards, but the same size as snooker balls, as the game is played on the same size table as snooker. Russian pyramid uses a set of fifteen numbered, but otherwise all-white, balls and a red or yellow cue ball that are even larger than carom billiards balls at . Kaisa has the same pocket and ball dimensions but uses only five balls: one yellow, two red and two cue balls, one for each player.
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Many snooker cues are jointed, usually with brass fittings, or even of the way back toward the butt , providing an unusually long shaft, rather than at the half-way point, where pool and carom cues are jointed. This necessitates an extra long cue case. Some models are jointed in two places, with the long shaft having a smooth and subtle wood-to-wood joint. Snooker cue tips are usually 8.5 – 10.5 mm in diameter to provide more accuracy and finesse with snooker balls, which are smaller than pool and carom varieties.
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Five-pins integrates some of the target-shooting aspects of pool, snooker, etc. (perhaps via the influence of English billiards) into carom billiards, which is otherwise oriented at scoring carom points. and are essential when attempting to score, with the goal of leaving the balls in such a position that the incoming opponent is () and will have a difficult , , or shot to perform. Because kicks and banks are so common, players must be more skilled at these shots than they would need to be for most other cue sports.
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The Institute offers in-campus hostel facility for boys with 100 rooms with capacity of 250 plus students. And separate hostel facility for girls. Each hostel has gym and indoor games facilities for Carom, Chess, Table-Tennis and Badminton.
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The abandonment of the centralized management system of the Romanian economy in 1990 determined the reappearance of the distinct entities, thus the Petrochemical Platform was divided into the private companies: Carom Onești, Rafo, Chimcomplex, Întreprinderea Electrocentrale Borzeşti and Uton.
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Charles Richard Morin (October 30, 1870 – July 4, 1947),Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. Social Security Administration. sometimes referred to as Charley Morin, was an American professional carom billiards player, and in 1911 the World Three-cushion Champion.
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Daniel Sánchez Gálvez (born 3 March 1974 in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, and best known as Dani Sánchez) is a Spanish professional carom billiards player who plays for FC Porto a club he has represented for the last 21 years.
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With the exception of one-pocket, games typically called "pool" today are descended from two English games imported to the United States during the 19th century. The first was English billiards which became American four-ball billiards, essentially the same game but with an extra red to increase scoring opportunities. It was the most popular billiards game in the mid-19th century until dethroned by the carom game straight rail. American four-ball tournaments tried switching to carom tables in the 1870s but this did not save it from being doomed to obscurity, the last professional tournament was held in 1876.
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The origins of the BCA began with the National Billiard Association of America (NBAA), founded July 25, 1921. The organization rapidly became the de facto governing body of the sport in the United States, with 35,000 members by 1928, and was closely tied to the Brunswick-Balke-Collender company, a major equipment manufacturer. After a decline in influence in the late 1930s, in part owing to a dispute with world carom billiards champion Willie Hoppe, the NBAA reformed in 1941 as the Billiard Association of America (BAA).Official Rule Book for All Pocket and Carom Billiard Games. 1946.
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The short 10 years history of the team 1965-1975 was a rich one in memories and went from enthusiastic students with talent and eagerness to assert, who were led by a young coach Corneliu Costinescu. Among the successful achievements of the team, he was a 1966 city champion, regional champion in 1967, then joined Divizia C in 1968 and promoted in Divizia B, starting with 1969. In 1975, Știința Bacău and CAROM Onești merged, the first one being absorbed by the second one. After the merge, CAROM was moved to Borzești, a village (now part of Onești) and renamed as CSM Borzești.
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In informal play, an unheated table is often used. Like most other carom games, five-pins requires three standard carom billiard balls of equal diameter: a red , a for the first player or team, and another cue ball for the second player or team. Ball sets vary by manufacturer, but typically are white for first and yellow for second (they may be plain or spotted), or plain white for first and white with a spot for second. The balls are 61.5 mm (2-3/8 [2.4] in) in diameter and weigh between ; 7.5 oz is average).
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New York Times Company (October 17, 1952). Hoppe, 65, Leave Cue Competition; Three-Cushion Ace Will Play Exhibitions — Won 51 Titles During 46-Year Span. Retrieved January 2, 2007. Over time, three-cushion completely supplanted balkline billiards, once the world championship carom game.
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World Three-cushion Championship in Amsterdam Edmond Soussa (11 October 1898 – 29 May 1989) was an Egyptian carom billiards player in various disciplines and 11-time world champion. To date, Soussa was the only African to win world titles in the sport.
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The college has a sports department with arrangements for several indoor and outdoor games. Indoor games include badminton, table tennis, carom and chess. Outdoor games include cricket, football and basketball. There are grounds for football and volleyball along with a cricket pitch and basketball court.
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Saikia is also a keen sportsperson and was captain of the Trinity College Badminton team in 1999-99, as well as member of its cricket team. He is also an enthusiastic chess and carom player. He lives in Guwahati with his wife and children.
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Artistic billiards final at the 2013 European Carom Billiards Championship. Artistic billiards, sometimes called fantasy billiards or fantaisie classique, is a carom billiards discipline in which players compete at performing 76 preset shots of varying difficulty. Each set shot has a maximum point value assigned for perfect execution, ranging from a four-point maximum for lowest level difficulty shots, and climbing to an 11-point maximum for shots deemed highest in difficulty level. There are a total of 500 points available to a player, representing the combined value of a perfect score on all 76 shots, although not all games are played with the full shot catalogue.
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In three-cushion carom, the object is to carom off both object balls with at least three being contacted before the contact of the cue ball with the second object ball. Three-cushion is a very difficult game. Averaging one point per is professional-level play, and averaging 1.5 to 2 is world-class play. An average of one means that for every turn at the table, a player makes 1 point and misses once, thus making a point on 50% of his or her shots. Wayman C. McCreery of St. Louis, Missouri, is credited with popularizing the game in the 1870s.The New York Times (September 21, 1902).
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Pedro Leopoldo Carrera (19 June 1914 – 2 September 1963) was an Argentine carom billiards player and the first player to set a of 1,000 or more. Carrera was a five time carom billiards world champion. He won the straight rail world championship in 1950 and 1953, the 47.2 balkline world championship in 1951, and the Union Internationale des Fédérations des Amateurs de Billard (UIFAB) World Three-cushion Championship in 1952 and UIFAB pentathlon world cup in 1954. In 1980, more than 17 years after his death, Carrera was awarded the Premios Konex in platinum posthumously as the best billiard player in Argentine history and also with the "Diploma al Mérito".
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The school has facilities for playing sports like: Cricket, Football, Volleyball and Carom board. A sports day is organised, every year in January. Students of the school, compete in various track and field events, on this day, amidst huge audiences from all over the local area.
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The Artistic Billiards World Championship was a carom billiards tournament in the discipline of artistic billiards, organized mostly by the Confédération International de Billard Artistique. Raymond Steylaerts of Belgium won the tournament more times – 6 – than any other player. The current champion is Serdar Gümüş from Turkey.
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The hostels provide several sports facilities for its inmates, which include badminton, basketball, volleyball, cricket and indoor games such as table tennis, carom and chess. In order to ensure physical as well as spiritual fitness for its future professionals, the hostellers are provided with a gymnasium.
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Chicago: Billiard Association of America. Cover, frontispiece and p. 26 ("Pocket Billiards Index"). Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and calling itself "the Governing Body of Billiards", the BAA produced a concise, portable, inexpensive rulebook of carom and pool games that was to serve as the model for future BCA releases.
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Early BCA rulebooks were essentially identical to the 1946 BAA edition, including the cover art and the absence of the increasingly popular game nine-ball from the ruleset.Official Rule Book for All Pocket and Carom Billiard Games. 1950. Toledo, OH: Billiard Congress of America. Cover, frontispiece and p.
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The Crystal Kelly Cup or Crystal Kelly Tournament (sometimes: Chrystal Kelly) was a prestigious, generously funded carom billiards invitational tournament in the discipline of three-cushion, which has been held at different venues from 1994 to 2011, a total of 18 times, mostly in Monte Carlo and Nice.
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The slate bed of a carom billiard table must have a minimum thickness of 45 millimetres and in tournaments recommended heating temperatures is 33–37°C (91–99°F), which helps to keep moisture out of the cloth to aid the balls rolling and rebounding in a consistent manner, and generally makes a table play faster. A heated table is required under international carom rules and is an especially important requirement for the games of three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards. Heating table beds is an old practice. Queen Victoria had a billiard table that was heated using zinc tubes, although the aim at that time was chiefly to keep the then-used ivory balls from warping.
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It was founded in 2005 as the Sang Lee International Open, named after Sang Lee, a Korean American player whose goal was to spread his principles as a player and restore the popularity of carom billiards in the United States. One year after his death in 2004, his widow Ira Lee initiated the tournament in tribute to him. It was organized by the United States Billiard Association (USBA) as a member of the world federation Union Mondiale de Billard. The venue for the tournament is the Carom Café, which was founded by Lee and his friend Michael Kang, who was also one of the best players in the United States at that time.
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Snooker, in which understanding nap effects is part of the game, uses the nappy variety, while pool and carom billiards use the napless type. For gaming use, baize is traditionally dyed green, in mimicry of a lawn (see Cue sport, "History"), though wide variety of table colours have become accepted.
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The facilities available for sports activities include a 400-meter synthetic track, a football field-cum-cricket ground, a stadium pavilion and courts for games like hockey, volleyball, basketball, kho-kho, kabady, and ball badminton. Facilities are available for indoor games like table-tennis, carom, chess, wrestling, weightlifting and power lifting.
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Regulation 10 × 5-foot carom billiards tables have a playing surface (measured between the noses of the cushions) of 2.84 metres by 1.42 metres (9.32 × 4.65 feet) with a 5-millimetre allowance. The standard height range of the table, measured from the playing surface to the ground is between 75 and 80 centimetres.
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Charles Faroux at the Grand Prix of France in 1922 Faroux at the Cadre World Championships 1922 in Paris Charles Faroux (29 December 1872 – 9 February 1957) was a French motorsport official, race director of the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1923 to 1956, and three-time world champion at carom billiards.
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The bulk of machine-made cues are sold by American brands, but are outsourced from non-US labour pools. In the extreme carom discipline known as artistic billiards, a master practitioner may have 20 or more cues, of a wide range of specifications, each customised for performing a particular shot or trick.
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Mathri (, , Mathi) is a Rajasthani snack. It is a kind of flaky biscuit from north-west region of India. Once available only in selected places, mathi or mathri as its often called, is now available in almost all sweet shops in India. It is made from flour, water, and, optionally, carom seeds.
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They both start fighting, when Mama enters. Mama starts beating up Suri, and he runs away. Once back in Mangalat, Suri tells Ajju Tehzab that Mama and his men beat him up, slightly exaggerating to make it seem worse. Ajju Tehzab replies, while playing Carom, that he will take care of Mama.
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Sree Vidyanikethan encourages every child to take up a sports activity of their choice. The campuses have the following sports infrastructure: Outdoor Sports: Basketball, Tennis, Swimming Pool, Cricket,volleyball, skating, batminton, football, horse riding. Indoor: Chess, Puzzles, Carom, Musical chairs. Other Activities: Calligraphy, Recitation, Elocution, Essay Writing, Extempore, Dramatics, Singing, Dancing,art.
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Sporting Clube de Portugal is a professional billiards team based in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 1930. The team competes in the Portuguese Billiards League and in European championships, in both carom billiards (three-cushion) and pool (eight-ball and nine-ball) events. The team includes some players from Belgium, France and Spain.
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A set of standard carom billiard balls, comprising a red , one plain white , and one dotted white cue ball (replaced in modern three-cushion billiards by a yellow ball) for the opponent The three standard balls in most carom billiards games consist of one white cue ball, a second yellow cue ball and a third, red object ball. Historically, the second cue ball was white with red or black spots to differentiate it; both types of ball sets are permitted in tournament play. The balls are significantly larger and heavier than their pool or snooker counterparts, with a diameter of , and a weight ranging between with a typical weight of . The cited document has a "cm" for "mm" typographical error.
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Cue sports was contested at the Asian Games for the first time at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 6 and 19 December 1998. The competition took place at the Land Sports Complex. The competition included only men's events. There were ten events at the competition, Carom billiards, English billiards, Pool and Snooker.
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He died in 1847 and his grave is in the churchyard at Kralingen-Crooswijk, a suburb of Rotterdam. In Spanish, "Mingo" is slang for the red ball used in carom billiards. It is named after Mingaud. In the 1990s, Cees Sprangers, Dongen, The Netherlands, began to research the 'lost mystery' that Mingaud had become.
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The cue sports was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea between 1 and 8 October 2002. The competition took place at Dongju College Gymnasium. The competition included only men's events. There were ten events at the competition, Carom billiards, English billiards, Pool and Snooker.
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The cricket ground The facility has a swimming pool, synthetic and clay tennis courts, turf cricket ground, basketball, football grounds, badminton, volleyball courts, and a 400-meter track. is dedicated to a table tennis hall, gymnasium, and carom and chess rooms. The college conducts inter-college tournaments in basketball, volleyball, cricket and ball badminton.
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The cue sports of snooker, English billiards, and three-cushion carom for men, as well as eight-ball and nine-ball pool for both men and women, were contested at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 4 to December 11. All events were held at the Al-Sadd Multi-Purpose Hall.
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The first letters of their last names formed their company name, Merdel Game Manufacturing Company. Merdel manufactured their own version of the well-known game. It was sold under the name "carom" (single "r"). Shampaine filed a lawsuit against Merdel in 1961 for copyright infringement, as the original game was carroms with double "rr"s.
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The slate beds of profession-grade carom tables are usually heated to stave off moisture and provide a consistent playing surface. Most pool tables are known as 7-, 8- or 9-footers, referring to the nominal length of the playing surface's long side. The internationally standardised size for professional play is 9 by 4.5 ft (274 by 137 cm).
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The campus is a area, with outdoor and indoor sports facilities like cricket, basketball, badminton, volleyball, table tennis, and carom, with a swimming pool and a gym. The college has a model ship on campus for training marine engineers called TS Clarissa. The college has a residential arrangement with both a boys' and girls' hostel facility on the campus.
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His father was an active billiards player. At eighteen, Eddy Leppens was playing of the Honour Division in straight rail, four years later in all six disciplines of carom billiards: straight rail, balkline (47/2, 47/1 and 71/2), one-cushion, and three-cushion billiards. In 1993, Leppens won the Belgian Cup in three cushion, his preferred discipline.
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To create Fafda, besan (Bengal gram flour), oil, carom seeds (ajwain), papad khar, salt to taste. Amalgamate all the ingredients in a bowl and create a mixture, make dough of the mixture using enough water and Make small rolls of the dough and roll in a cylindrical shape, and after flattening, deep-fry till it turns crispy.
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Backstreet Billiards, known in Japan as , is a video game released for PlayStation. It is the sequel to the 1997 video game Carom Shot, which was released only in Japan for PlayStation. In 2008-2009, the game was re-released for the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Portable, followed by the PlayStation Vita release in 2012.
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The campus contains six hostels: four for boys and two for girls. All told, these modern-looking hostels span 31,200 square feet and contain triple, double, and single rooms. Although in a separate building, the mess is attached to the hostel buildings. A common room sits above the mess and contains games like chess, carom and table tennis.
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Mody University provides on-campus residential facilities to its students, research scholars, faculty members, and many of its staff. The institute has sports facilities for indoor as well as outdoor games. Sports facilities include yoga, equestrian, running tracks, pole vault, high jump, long and triple jump, tennis court, cricket, hockey, football, volleyball, basketball, badminton, table tennis, carom, chess.
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KSHITIZ is the national level sports fest which promotes a spirit of friendly competition among the students of various institutions all around the country. KSHITIZ involves students from all over India competing in the university's sports facilities. The festival includes various sports events like cricket, badminton, basketball, football, handball, athletics, carom, chess, volleyball and many other events.
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Extensive playing facilities are provided for the students with an area of six acres. Outdoor courts have been laid for games such as basketball, cricket and football, whilst indoor games such as carom, chess and table tennis are facilitated within the buildings, alongside a gymnasium. The college also supports the National Service Scheme and Youth Red Cross.
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He was then called upon to play the lead role in the movie Sundaattam that revolved around the gambling form of carom, that was based in North Chennai. Post all these successful endeavors he was offered the biggest role in his life when he replaced Mirchi Senthil in the blockbuster Vijay TV serial Saravanan Meenatchi as his son, Shakthi.
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Indoor sports facilities include table tennis, carom, chess, and snooker. Rooms for music, dance, and other activities are also available. There is a very nice open-air stage in the academic building which serves as the centre of cultural activities and performances. Initially, the first batch of B.Tech students stayed at the temporary campus for the first two years.
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Willie Hoppe, ca. 1910-1915 William Frederick Hoppe (October 11, 1887 - February 1, 1959), known predominantly as Willie Hoppe (surname rhymes with "poppy"A character of the film Born Yesterday uses this pronunciation.), was an internationally renowned American professional carom billiards champion, who was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1966.
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Hoppe was born in Cornwall on Hudson, New York on October 11, 1887. He won 51 world titles between 1906 and 1952, in 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. He is buried in Whitemarsh Cemetery in Ambler, Pa.
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2016 Tournament logo Martin Horn at the entrance of the Carom Café in 2016. The Verhoeven Open is a three-cushion billiards tournament held in Flushing, Queens. The event is sanctioned by the Union Mondiale de Billard and the United States Billiard Association. The event was known as Sang Lee International Open between 2005 and 2008.
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Ajwain, ajowan (), or Trachyspermum ammi—also known as ajowan caraway, bishop's weed, or carom—is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae (or Umbelliferae). Both the leaves and the seed‑like fruit (often mistakenly called seeds) of the plant are consumed by humans. The name "bishop's weed" also is a common name for other plants. The "seed" (i.e.
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FooBillard supports several kinds of billiard games: carom billiards (three-cushion billiards), snooker, and pool billiard (pocket billiards) in the eight-ball and nine-ball variant. FooBillard has a realistic physics engine and a computer opponent AI. It features an optional red/green 3D stereo view (requires anaglyph 3D glasses), a free view mode and an animated cue.
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Later that year, Balukas, along with her younger sister Laura, appeared on CBS's popular show I've Got a Secret. None of the panelists were successful in guessing that the 7- and 5-year-old sisters were pool enthusiasts. The following year Balukas appeared in an exhibition match at the bygone Carom Club, then located at 1697 Broadway in Manhattan.
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The facilities available for sports activities include a 400-meter synthetic track, a football field-cum-cricket ground, a stadium pavilion with a capacity of 25,000 people, and courts for games like hockey, volleyball, basketball, kho-kho, kabady, and ball badminton. Facilities are available for indoor games like table-tennis, carom, chess, wrestling, weightlifting and power lifting.
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The college is situated slightly away from town with a campus of . The college has its own hostel for boys with a seating capacity of 60 only. The college has separate common rooms for boys and girls with facilities for indoor games like carom and table tennis. There is an in-campus canteen offering snacks and beverages.
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Four-ball billiards Four-ball billiards or four-ball carom (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or 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 distinguish it (in some sets, one of the white balls is yellow instead of spotted). Each player is assigned one of the white (or yellow) balls as a . A is scored when a shooter's cue ball s on any two other balls in the same (with the opponent's cue ball serving as an , along with the reds, for the shooter). Two points are scored when the shooter caroms on each of the three object balls in a single shot.
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Kobashi was a fine player and taught Katsura the fundamentals of various carom billiards games. Katsura also had a billiard table at home, bought by her family after she showed intense interest in the sport. Katsura practiced diligently, and began competing against Japanese men and beating them. At just 15, Katsura won the women's championship straight rail tournament of Japan.
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Djmit campus The campus has a plinth area of . Sports fields are available for various games such as Cricket, Football (Commonly known as Soccer or Association football, not to be confused with American Football) and various indoor games facilities such as Table tennis, Carom Board and Chess. The Institute is well connected to the national highway, having its own exit.
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The campus also has an air-conditioned theatre hall for annual day, farewells and major seminars. The sports infrastructure in the campus includes facilities for games such as cricket, basketball, football, tennis, volleyball. A gymnasium in the campus houses indoor games such as badminton, carom, table tennis and chess. A wellness clinic called AYAKSHA is also maintained in the campus.
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Carrom during play A carrom board Carrom (also spelled carom/carroms) is a tabletop game of Indian origin. The game is very popular in South Asia and the Middle East, and is known by various names in different languages. In South Asia, many clubs and cafés hold regular tournaments. Carrom is very commonly played by families, including children, and at social functions.
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Virtual Pool 3 was released in 2000 for PC, but was later ported to the PlayStation and PlayStation Network. VP3 featured snooker, carom and billiards games in addition to pool. The game, endorsed by women's world champion Jeanette Lee, was released and distributed by Interplay Entertainment and Global Star Software. It received the highest Metacritic score of any main-series title .
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Cues for carom tend toward the shorter range, though cue length is primarily a factor of player height and arm length. Most cues are made of wood, but occasionally the wood is covered or bonded with other materials including graphite, carbon fiber or fiberglass. An obsolete term for a cue, used from the 16th to early 19th centuries, is billiard stick.
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The east playground is smaller and used by students to play games. The southeast section of the campus has table tennis boards and a handball wall. Indoor games such as carom, chess and other board games are housed inside the main building in the play room. The auditorium is well equipped with a PA system and has a stage for plays, performances, annual gatherings, and debate competitions.
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Peanuts are added as special attraction and in Karimnagar District, cashew nuts are added. Sakinalu also called as Chakinalu, is one of the most popular savory in Telangana, is often cooked during Makara Sankranti festival season. This a deep-fried snack made of rice flour, sesame seeds and flavoured with ajwain (carom seeds or in Telugu). These savories are harder and spicier than the Andhra varieties.
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The college has a spacious playing field for hockey, cricket, and football, and facilities for indoor games like table tennis, carom, and chess, as well as a mini gymnasium. The Sant Harchand Singh Longowal Sports Complex consists of a gymnasium. A squash racket room, three table tennis rooms, and changing rooms for players are also in this complex. The college has a floodlit lawn tennis court.
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Peanuts are added as special attraction and in Karimnagar District, cashew nuts are added. Sakinalu also called as Chakinalu, is one of the most popular savory in Telangana, is often cooked during Makara Sankranti festival season. This a deep-fried snack made of rice flour, sesame seeds and flavoured with ajwain (carom seeds or in Telugu). These savories are harder and spicier than the Andhra varieties.
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Furthermore, he has ten champion titles in carom billiards in Turkey, as well as one each in cadre 47/2 and one-cushion. In 2006, he ranked at 8th place of the world bests of Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). His highest average in a match is 3.571 (50 points in 14 innings). In 2009, Saygıner signed a contract with the cue-stick producer Longoni.
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It may be eaten with yogurt, baigan bharta, alu bharta, and papad. The litti are traditionally baked over wood fire, but in the modern day a new fried version has been developed. Herbs and spices used to flavour the litti include onion, garlic, ginger, coriander leaves, lime juice, carom seeds, nigella seeds and salt. Tasty pickles can also be used to add spice flavour.
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Billiards and snooker at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games was held in OCBC Arena Hall 4, in Kallang, Singapore from 6 to 10 June 2015. Ten competitions was held in men's snooker singles, snooker doubles, English billiards singles, English billiards singles (500 points), English billiards doubles, English billiards team, 9-ball pool doubles and in men's 1 cushion carom and in men, women's 9-ball pool singles.
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Sport Lisboa e Benfica is a semi-professional billiards team based in Lisbon, Portugal. Benfica compete in the Portuguese Billiards League, in carom billiards (three-cushion), pool (eight-ball and nine-ball), and snooker events. The team is almost exclusively composed of Portuguese players. They play at the Estádio da Luz in a 202 square meters room with 4 professional pool tables and a 50 people stand.
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The high run for the tournament was just 6 points, and the high average a .75. The game was infrequently played prior to 1907, with many top carom players of the era voicing their dislike of it. However, after the introduction of the Lambert Trophy in 1907, the game became increasingly popular both in the United States and internationally.New York Times Company (January 6, 1911).
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He quickly proved his great talent as an all-rounder. At the 1927 balkline 47.1 World Championship in Paris he finished third place. The following year he won three-time world championship titles in the disciplines three-cushion billiards, straight rail and balkline 47.1. He dominated the carom scene during the upcoming years and has won a total of eleven world and two European titles.
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In the mid 1930s, he withdrew from active billiards play and worked as a freelance artist in Paris. With the beginning of the Three-Cushion World Cup in 1986, he returned to the big carom stage. Werner Bayer, founder of the World Cup convinced him to design a trophy for this tournament series. He attended various three-cushion World Cups in his old age.
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Bessems played first Carom billiards, but later switched to artistic billiards, more commonly associated with trickshots. Bessems made his international breakthrough in 1965 at the European Youth Billiards Championships. In the Cadre 47/2 European Championship 1971 in Nice, he won his first silver medal in the men's competition. He played against players such as Raymond Ceulemans, Henk Scholte, Hans Vultink, Francis Connesson and Emile Wafflard.
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Affiliated made mostly furniture for hospitals. The Carrom Games division, a fraction of their total sales, moved production of their toys and games to Red Lion, Pennsylvania, for a short time in 1968. They continued to make the game of carroms and competed against Merdel's "carom" game. There was a lawsuit filed against Montgomery Ward & Company in 1969 by Affiliated, owner of the original carroms game.
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Carom billiards and pool are two types of cue sports or billiards-family games, which as a general class are played with a stick called a cue which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a cloth-covered billiard table bounded by rubber attached to the confining of the table. Carom billiards (often simply called "billiards" in many varieties of non-British English) is a type of billiards in which the table is bounded completely by cushions, and in which (in most variants) three balls are used. Pool, also called "pocket billiards", is a form of billiards usually equipped with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls), played on a pool table with six pockets built into the rails, splitting the cushions. The pockets (one at each corner, and one in the center of each long rail) provide targets (or in some cases, hazards) for the balls.
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The park contains a children's play area and an area dedicated to science. Nehru Sishu Udyan park A park mainly dedicated to children. Saraswati Sishu Udyan park Located in Saraswati Vihar, this park serves as a central area for children to play. The NALCO club This club contains a canteen, swimming pool, badminton court, tennis court, skating ground, indoor games section (table tennis, carom, chess, billiards), gymnasium and library.
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In the instrument industry gambhar timber is widely employed for the manufacture of drawing boards, plane tables, instrument boxes, thermometer scales and cheaper grade metric scales. It is also used in artificial limbs, carriages and bobbins. It is an approved timber for handles of tennis rackets, frames and reinforcements of carom boards and packing cases and crates. Gamhar is used in papermaking and in the matchwood industry too.
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Notre Dame notched its fourth straight win over the Wolverines with a come-from-behind win. Trailing 24–14 in the third quarter, the Irish got a lucky bounce, or carom when an errant third down pass intended for Raghib Ismael found its way into the arms of receiver Lake Dawson and kept a scoring drive alive. Adrian Jarrell caught the winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter.
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The indoor Students Centre is a single large building measuring about in built-up area. It is entirely dedicated to student recreational and extracurricular activities. It houses the cafeteria/refectory, a students' store, browsing lines, students' lounge, Mega Television lounge, shuttle court, two gymnasiums, billiards room, chess, carom, table tennis, squash, fencing court, boxing, air-rifle shooting range and aerobic dance floors. The Students Centre was inaugurated in October 2010.
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Virtual Pool is a 3D, first-person sports simulation video game series with computer simulations of cue sports which was developed by Celeris. The games in the series simulate pool, snooker and carom billiards. The Virtual Pool series focuses on accurate simulation and improving the player's ability to play the sport in real life. Virtual Pool releases are sold with a money back guarantee to improve a player's external game.
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Retrieved 30 December 2006.Lexico Publishing Group, LLC (2006). Carom - Dictionary.com. Retrieved 30 December 2006. also known as star fruit. But this may simply be folk etymology, as the fruit bears no resemblance to a billiard ball, and there is no direct evidence for such a derivation. In modern French, the word ' means 'successive collision', currently used mainly in reference to or shots in billiards, and to multiple-vehicle car crashes.
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Extra-curricular activities include sports like chess, table tennis, carom, basketball, football, cricket, hockey, handball and vocaboom. Other co-curricular activities include music, dance , drama and public speaking. Large numbers of inter-house competitions include group singing, solo singing, group dance, nukkad natak, mad-ad slogan, elocution, debate, quiz and news reading. Sports competitions include cricket, football, handball, basket-ball, disc-through, short-put, swimming and several athletic competitions.
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Haskell patented the carom game board (USD27788S) on October 26, 1897. His invention became popular in the US, then spread globally. An 1898 advertisement for the game of carroms in a Ludington journal used the slogan "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." The ad went on to say that a fascinating way of nonsense was through the best parlor game made – carroms.
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In former times, extremely complicated and difficult carom games such as 18.2 balkline were played in world championship matches by players whose skill at very fine manipulation of the balls in nurse shots was so great that the serious playing field often consisted of only 4 major players for decades at a time. The carom world opened up in the latter half of the 20th century and grew to its current level of much broader international competition with the rise of three-cushion billiards, which had more action, simpler rules and easier basic play, but more difficult true mastery due to the elimination of nurse shots. Along with snooker and perhaps nine-ball (see below), three- cushion is expected to become an Olympic sport within perhaps a decade. Pocket tables are known from the earliest days of billiards, being adaptations of lawn holes and croquet-style hoops to the indoor version of the game.
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3300 BCE in Egypt, features stone balls, skittles, and an arch (no cue/mace was included in the recovered artifacts). Stein and Rubino, among other researchers, believe that games such as early ball-and-stick activities, chess, and many others were primarily brought into Europe from the Near East and Middle East by returning Crusaders from the 12th century onward, and that the pastimes were kept alive and evolving on that continent principally by the Christian clergy. Late medieval ground billiards is seen as the precursor of many later, more familiar outdoor and indoor games, including croquet and its variants, and table-based billiards games including snooker, pool (or pocket billiards, including nine-ball, eight-ball, etc.), pocketless carom billiards varieties, and the hybrid pocket–carom English billiards. Ground billiards is described as "the original game of billiards" by Michael Ian Shamos in The Encyclopedia of Billiards, an assessment echoed word-for-word by Stein and Rubino.
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Calvin Demarest, date unknown. Demarest 1911 Mecca cigarette card Demarest on March 26, 1912 Calvin W. Demarest (June 1886 - June 12, 1925) of Chicago, was a national amateur and professional carom billiards champion from Chicago in the early 20th century known for an open, crowd-pleasing style of play. He later gained notoriety for stabbing his wife and injuring his mother during a suicidal psychotic episode. Demarest won major amateur championships in 1907 and 1908.
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The Color of Money were shot A billiard, pool or snooker hall (or parlour, room or club; sometimes compounded as poolhall, poolroom, etc.) is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards. Such establishments commonly serve alcohol and often have arcade games, slot machines, card games, darts, foosball and other games. Some billiard halls may be combined or integrated with a bowling alley.
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Straight rail, from which other carom games derive, is thought to date to the 18th century, although no exact time of origin is known. The derivation of the name straight rail is not clear, though may be a reference to the pocketless table. An early mention appears in the March 23, 1881, edition of The New York Times, wherein it is referred to as "the straight rail game."The New York Times (March 23, 1881).
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Olimpo de Jesús Sánchez Caro- Olimpo, known as El Viejo, as long as 19 members of the group demobilized in the city of Carmen Del Choco on August 21, 2008. Olimpo reportedly worked for multiple guerilla groups. The group was formed by Olimpo de Jesús Sánchez Caro along with his brothers Ephraim Sánchez Carom and Lizardo Sánchez Caro. The group started with 18 members on October 18, 1993 and eventually evolved to over 400 members.
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The school was founded by Devyani Mungali and Girija Shankar Mungali. It has a 14-acre campus, water purification and treatment plant, classrooms, chemistry laboratory, biology laboratory, and physics laboratory. The school has a music room, an art room, an audiovisual room, and multipurpose rooms. The school's campus has (as of February 2013) basketball court, volleyball court, international-size soccer ground, two badminton courts, table tennis tables as well as carom boards and chess boards.
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The university's offers a comprehensive range of facilities for sport and leisure for almost every student sport and participation at all levels. Student common rooms are annexed to every hostel in which facilities are provided for indoor games such as Table Tennis, Badminton, Carom, etc. Facilities exist for outdoor games such as Volleyball, Cricket, Tennis, Hockey, Basketball, Football, Athletics and Bodybuilding. For all these games a sports complex held near the Sector - C Mosque.
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The game is popular especially in Italy (where it originated) and Argentina, but also in some other parts of Latin America and Europe, with international, televised professional tournaments (for the carom version only). It is sometimes referred to as Italian five-pins or Italian billiards (Italian: '''''),Biliardo all'italiana manual at Wikibooks, accessed February 1, 2007. or as ''''' (in Italian and Spanish). A variant of the game, ' or nine-pins, adds additional skittles to the formation.
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The two types of billiards have developed into a wide array of specific games with widely divergent rules, and require equipment that differs in some key parameters. Skill at one type of billiards-family game is widely applicable to the other, but expertise usually requires at least a degree of specialisation. A few games, such as English billiards are hybrids, using carom balls on large pocketed tables, and snooker, a non-pool-based pocket game, also uses such tables.
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Overview 1 – Viersen 2013 Overview 2 – Viersen 2013 The UMB World Three- cushion Championship for National Teams is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards where nations are represented by a team of two players. After the first three editions, which took place in various nations and were not scheduled regularly, the Union Mondiale de Billard decided to keep the championships situated in Viersen, Germany and to organize these championships annually.
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The game is played to 60 , in a rather elaborate scoring system, reminiscent of those used in snooker and English billiards, with points being awarded for various types of shots. Like both Russian and English billiards, which are also played on large pocket billiards tables, kaisa is a hybrid of carom and pocket billiards game styles. Kaisa is principally a recreational game, without professional players. However, the first kaisa world championship tournament was held in April 2010.
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Cyrille Dion (March 1, 1843 – October 2, 1878), sometimes called "the Bismarck of Billiards", was a top player of both carom billiards and pool during his era. Hailing from Montreal, Dion was champion of Canada in 1865. He won the last American four-ball billiards championship, held in 1873. After three-ball billiards came into vogue, he won the world championship at straight rail in 1875, and three years later, the first Championship of America at pool in 1878.
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At least one publication categorically states he invented the game as well. The first three-cushion billiards tournament took place January 14–31, 1878, in St. Louis, with McCreery a participant and Leon Magnus the winner. The high run for the tournament was just 6 points, and the high average a 0.75. The game was infrequently played, with many top carom players of the era voicing their dislike of it, until the 1907 introduction of the Lambert Trophy.
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Snooker is uncommon in North America, where pool games such as eight-ball and nine-ball dominate, and Latin America and Continental Europe, where carom games dominate. The first World Snooker Championship was held in 1927, and it has been held annually since then with few exceptions. The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) was established in 1968 to regulate the professional game, while the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) regulates the amateur games.
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Popular sports are Football and Cricket, which are more often played among boys. There are few tournaments that happen annually, as well as many ad-hoc tournaments are organized, mostly with altered rules from the common formats, wherein many clubs and schools compete. Other commonly played games are badminton, tipcat (‘dangulli’ in Bengali) etc., along with few board games that are also quite common: carom, chess and cards can be seen played even on road sides.
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150px Jacob (Jake) Schaefer Jr. (born October 18, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., died November 10, 1975 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) was a professional carom billiards player with German grandparentage, a specialist in balkline games, and was inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1968."Hall of Fame Inductees, 1966-68", Billiards Congress of America, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA; accessed February 3, 2007 His nickname was "The Prodigy".Legendary Players Retrieved May 24, 2014.
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With the balls barely moving and repetitively hit, there was little for the fans to watch. Jacob Schaefer Sr. tobacco card, circa 1880s Although Schaefer was hailed as "the wizard", the repetitive nature of straight rail led to the development of balkline, where the table is divided by into where only a certain number of points can be scored before the balls must be driven away, and one-cushion billiards, where the cue ball must contact one of the as part of the shot. Today, straight rail play is relatively uncommon in the U.S. but retains popularity in Europe, where it is often played as a practice game for both balkline and three-cushion billiards, a development of one-cushion that has become the most prominent professional carom billiards game. Additionally, Europe hosts professional competitions known as pentathlons in which straight rail is featured as one of five carom billiards disciplines at which players compete, the other four being 47.1 balkline, one-cushion billiards, 71.2 balkline, and three-cushion billiards.
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During 1947 Katsura caught the eye of American serviceman Vernon Greenleaf (no relation to the pool and carom billiards champion Ralph Greenleaf), a master sergeant in the U.S. Army's Quartermaster Corps who had been in the armed services for 22 years. Katsura and Greenleaf first met in a Tokyo service club where she was giving billiard exhibitions. Greenleaf began taking lessons from Katsura and was quickly smitten with her. They were married on November 30, 1950, but never had any children.
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The and of all kinds of billiard-type tables (carom, pool, and snooker) are covered with a tightly- woven cloth called baize, generally of worsted wool, although wool-nylon blends are common and some 100% synthetics are in use. Baize is principally a Commonwealth term, with "cloth" being preferred in North American English. It is often erroneously referred to as "felt", which is not woven. Faster-playing 100% woolen cloth is most commonly used on home tables and in high-end pool halls.
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Today, billiard cloth is available in a wide array of colours, with red, blue, grey, and burgundy being very common choices. In recent years cloth with dyed designs has become available, such as sports, university, beer, motorcycle and tournament sponsor logos. There is no core difference between carom and pool cloth. Serious players of both types of cue sports generally prefer fast cloth, as it requires less force when shooting, allowing a more accurate and "finessed" , and better ability to and thus or .
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In many games there may also be other racking requirements, such as the 1 ball at the apex. In some regional versions, the money ball must go on the foot spot. Some pool games, such as Chicago, are not racked at all, but as in many carom games have specific spotting locations for the balls. Snooker makes use of both tactics, with the pack of 15 being racked much as in pool, and the special each having certain spots assigned to each.
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The colony is divided into A/B/C/D/E and F types. Each type has a set number of buildings, and each building has 4/6/12 quarters. Two clubs, ORC and WRC, provide facilities for sports including Badminton, Table Tennis, Carom, Chess, Lawn Tennis and grounds for Cricket, Football and for other miscellaneous forms of entertainment. It has a guest house called "CHUMMREY" for employees and trainees and a VIP Guest House called "HIRAI" for top executives, managerial guests and VIPs.
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Subsequent editions (1917, 1926) were titled Who's Who in Chicago. was an American inventor, chemist, electrical engineer, and entrepreneur in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most active in Chicago, Illinois. He became the co-inventor in 1897 of modern with professional carom billiards player William A. Spinks."The World's Most Tragic Man Is the One Who Never Starts" , Clark, Neil M.; originally published in The American magazine, May 1927; republished in Hotwire: The Newsletter of the Toaster Museum Foundation, vol.
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A pool cue and its major parts. A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue), is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the . Cues are tapered sticks, typically about 57–59 inches (about 1.5 m) long and usually between 16 and 21 ounces (450–600 g), with professionals gravitating toward a 19-ounce (540 g) average.
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His father Ernst, a 17-time German champion and two-time European Vice Champion, was an important German billiard players of the 1950s and 1960s. At the age of nine years Christian was practicing in the two father-operated billiard-halls in Cologne. Rudolph practices three hours a day at the table and one hour at the gym. He ignored the typical entry into the game of carom billiards, starting with straight rail, and played three-cushion from the beginning on.
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Brojendranath Shil College Building ABN Seal College Building The college is in the heart of the town with a campus of and built-up area of 9032.96 sq. meters. The college is divided into six blocks -- administrative, bioscience, centenary, humanities, chemistry, and library -- and twelve departments. The college has separate hostels for boys and girls with a capacity of 85 and 75 respectively. There are separate common rooms for boys, girls and teachers with facilities for indoor games like carom and table tennis.
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The ball bounces quickly off the side wall, then strikes the floor and then the opposite side wall about 30–35 feet back. Depending upon the spin the server gives the Z-serve, the resulting carom may prove unpredictable and difficult to return. Side spin may cause the ball to bounce parallel to the back wall. A pinch serve is similar to a drive serve; however, the ball strikes a side wall very low and close to the serving box.
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The bed table – the cloth-covered, horizontal playing surface – is, on high-quality equipment, made of solid, smooth slabs of slate, most often from Italy, Brazil or China. Small pool tables may use only one or two pieces of slate, while carom, English billiards and tournament-size pool tables use three. Full-size snooker tables require five. The gap between slates is filled with a hard-drying putty, epoxy or resin, then sanded to produce a seamless surface, before being covered with the cloth.
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Ralph Greenleaf (picture by Ray Dessel) Ralph Greenleaf (November 3, 1899 in Monmouth, Illinois – March 15, 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American professional pool and carom billiards player. He was a twenty-time World Pocket Billiards Champion, who dominated the sport during his heyday. His obituary in The New York Times said of Greenleaf, in March 1950: "What Babe Ruth did for baseball, Dempsey did for fighting, Tilden did for tennis...Greenleaf did for pocket billiards.""Obituaries" The New York Times, March 1950.
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Herbert Hardt (born Graf; 27 November 1905 – 13 May 1978) was an American semi-professional carom billiards player from Chicago, Illinois. A bank clerk by day, Hardt took second place at the 1952 United States Eastern Regional Three-cushion Billiards Championship, thereby qualifying to play as one of ten contestants worldwide in the U.S.-hosted World Three-cushion Billiards Championship of the same year. Hardt came in dead last at the world championship, though he was competing against the best players in the world.
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Henk Robijns from the Netherlands shows some of his caramboles from the 1933 championship in Cairo, and two trick shots. The UMB World Three-cushion Championship is a professional carom billiards tournament in the discipline of three-cushion billiards, organized mostly annually by the Union Mondiale de Billard. Until 1953 it was organized by the UIFAB (Union Internationale des Federations d'Amateurs de Billard). During a dispute between the UMB and BWA (Billiards World Cup Association) the UMB decided not to organize the championship between 1988-1991.
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Four hostels for men and one hostel for women are available, totaling 500 single rooms with a dining hall and a cafeteria. A vegetarian hostel cafeteria is run by the students. The hostel has an alumni home for graduates, a VIP guest house and guest housing for other guests and parents of students. The hostel has a large recreation area for students with sports facilities for indoor and outdoor games, such as cricket, hockey, volleyball, basketball, football, and lawn tennis, badminton, table tennis, carom and chess.
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Games and Physical Education Afternoon games are compulsory for all the students. The School has six Football fields, five Hockey fields, five Basketball courts, one Squash court, one Cricket/Athletics field, one Gymnasium, and one Swimming Pool. For indoor games like Table Tennis, Carom board, Chess, and Draft, the facility is provided in each of the eight boarding Houses. Besides this, boys also receive training in Karate and Gymnastics They are also given an orientation in drill for their future careers in the armed forces.
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The profile of the rail cushion, which is the cushion's angle in relation to the bed of the table, varies between table types. The standard on American pool tables is the K-66 profile, which as defined by the Billiard Congress of America (BCA) has a base of and a nose height of . When installed properly the distance from the nose of the cushion to the covered slate surface is while using a regulation ball set. On a carom table, the K-55 profile is used (with a somewhat sharper angle than pool cushions).
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Cue weight is another factor that varies more as a matter of player preference. Non-custom carom cues available from most makers range from 17 to 20-oz, with the average being about 17.5-oz. Stock pool cues are available sometimes from 15 to 22 oz, though few serious players use anything, and many manufactures provide nothing, outside the 18 to 20-oz range, and the most common weight is 19 oz. Snooker cues are often graded as simply "light" (17 to 18 oz) or "heavy" (19 to 20 oz).
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English billiards is played with carom balls on a snooker-sized table with larger pockets, and there are various ways to earn different amounts of points. Russian pyramid is played with even larger balls, pockets barely large enough to admit them, and the goal of pocketing the cue ball by caroming it off of numbered object balls into a pocket to earn the point value of the numbered balls struck. Snooker is played by amassing points for pocketing balls with specific values, and losing points for various fouls.
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All shots must be in detail. In most games, nominating the object ball and the intended pocket is sufficient, but in kaisa the shooter must also call any on other balls or contacts on the path of the object ball to the pocket. After pocketing of the called object ball, any carom on or pocketing of another object ball for additional points (see below) need not be called. The same player continues shooting after each successful shot, but yields the table to the next player after failing to earn points on a shot attempt.
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Three-cushion retains great popularity in parts of Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and is the most popular carom billiards game played in the United States today, where pool is far more widespread. The game's slow resurgence in United States popularity is due in part to the introduction of the Sang Lee International Open tournament in Flushing, New York in 2005, with first-place prize money up to US$25,000. The game has also seen increased coverage in cue sports publications based in the United States, such as Billiards Digest and Pool & Billiard Magazine.
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This was a demonstration event to promote the inclusion of cue sports at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, featuring simultaneous play of three games, snooker, carom and pool, in the same hall. At the 2019 EBSA European Snooker Championship, Nechaeva emerged from the qualifying groups seeded fourth. In the last 16 she beat Yana Shut 3–1. In the quarter-final she faced Wendy Jans who had won the title in each of the previous six years, including the 2013 and 2014 wins over Nechaeva in the final.
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23 acres of well developed play fields for the following major outdoor games & sports is provided: Football, Hockey, Cricket, Basketball, Volley Ball, Ball badminton, Kabaddi, Tennis, Handball, Kho-Kho, Throw ball and out-door Gymnastic. There is an indoor sports centre called, Dr. Arumugam Sports Centre, which hosts indoor sports like: Badminton, Volleyball, Carom, Through Ball, etc. Notable KCTians have won the International and national level fame in the sports. Each and every year there will be at least a few persons from KCT will participate in international games like, Common Wealth, etc.
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After a total of 20 minutes' worth of arguing from both sides, Larry Bowa grounded out for the third out of the inning. The bottom of the fourth featured two fielding gaffes by Phillie left-fielder Lonnie Smith as the Astros got their first run. Enos Cabell doubled to left on what appeared to be a catchable fly ball. Smith mistakenly turned to face the left field wall as if the ball would carom, but the ball instead dropped on the warning track a few feet away from him.
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The Billiards and Snooker Federation of India was founded in 1926. The BFSI is affiliated to the World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS), the International Billiards and Snooker Federation, the Asian Confederation of Billiards Sports, the Asian Pocket Billiard Union, and the Asian Carom Billiard Confederation. It is also recognized by the Indian Olympic Association. In July 2010, the BFSI relaxed the traditional bow tie dress code for cue sports players and permitted players attending selection camps to wear casual attire such as T-shirts and jeans while playing.
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John Roberts, Jr and Edward Diggle English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom, Serves as a good example; the book refers to English billiards simply as "billiards", from cover to cover. where it originated, and in many former British colonies such as Australia, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pocket billiards. Two (historically both white, with one marked with a dot, but more recently one white and one yellow) and a red are used. Each player or team uses a different cue ball.
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The generic term pocket billiards is sometimes also used, and favored by some pool-industry bodies, but is technically a broader classification, including games such as snooker, Russian pyramid, and kaisa, which are not referred to as pool games. In most parts of the world, it is commonly referred to as just "billiards", analogous to the term "bowling" being commonly used to refer to the game of ten-pin bowling. There are also hybrid games combining aspects of both pool and carom billiards, such as American four-ball billiards, bottle pool, cowboy pool, and English billiards.
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P. 2 ("Contents").) The BCA rulebooks have remained in near-annual continuous publication to the present day. In 2000, the BCA made the major move of adopting the World Pool-Billiard Association's standardized rules for eight-ball, nine-ball, and other games subject to international professional competition. The BCA had by this time become the national affiliate of the WPA. In the new edition of the rules, the organization expressed a commitment to seeing pool and carom billiards become Olympic sports (and in fact selected Colorado Springs for its new headquarters for proximity to the US Olympic Committee).
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Wallyball is played in a racquetball court, which is divided into two halves by a net. The game is played like volleyball, with the added complexity that players may carom the ball off a side wall when playing it into the opponents' court. If a ball played over the net contacts the ceiling, the opponent's back wall, or both side walls without being touched by an opponent, the ball is ruled out of bounds. The pace of the game is generally fast, as the confined quarters encourage quick action and the walls often keep the ball conveniently in play.
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In former times, 10 by 5 ft (3 by 1.5 m) and even 12 by 6 ft (3.7 by 1.8 m) tables were common, but today these are used only for snooker, the carom- pocket hybrid known as English billiards, and some other regional variants, such as Russian pyramid and Finnish kaisa. Ten-foot pool tables mostly date from the early 20th century or earlier, but can occasionally still be found in older pool halls. Pool tables as small as 6 by 3 ft. are available for homes and cramped public spaces, but are not commonly preferred.
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Kaisa tables are usually 10 feet long and thus 2 feet shorter than official tournament Russian pyramid tables which are 12 feet long. It is a two-player or two-team game. As with many carom billiards games, both players have their own used to shoot at the other balls, and usually differentiated by one cue ball having a dot or other marking on it. In all, five balls are used: the yellow (called the kaisa in Finnish), two red object balls, and the two white cue balls (each of which serves as an object ball for the opponent).
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When a player purposely directs the puck towards the opponent's goal, he or she is said to "shoot" the puck. A deflection is a shot which redirects a shot or a pass towards the goal from another player, by allowing the puck to strike the stick and carom towards the goal. A one-timer is a shot which is struck directly off a pass, without receiving the pass and shooting in two separate actions. Headmanning the puck, also known as cherry-picking, the stretch pass or breaking out, is the tactic of rapidly passing to the player farthest down the floor.
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The green slopes down to the back. The pin set at the back left corner for championship play. The approach to the green rises to the green proper whence the green slopes away to the back with the front right corner the highest point on the green. From the above it is evident that the play for the green is to catch the approach a little above and beyond its center for a kick in or carom off the right corner and a curving roll across the green to the pin at the back left corner.
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The title is the German version of the French loan word carambolage, which means "carom" or "collision". As such, Karambolage aims to explore the differences, similarities, and overlaps of French and German culture through anecdotes, household objects that are common in one country, yet virtually unknown in the other, as well as brief, tongue-in-cheek lectures by etymologists, historians, and the like. The anecdotal segments are often accompanied by simple, stylized animation. In recent years, the makers of the series have also included segments dedicated to the experiences of members of the larger immigrant populations of both countries; i.e.
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He decoyed opposing baserunners with his left-field play. On fly balls headed for Fenway's Wall, he lined up as if about to make the catch just in front of the wall, waiting until the last possible moment before wheeling around to play the carom. This would fool baserunners into tagging up for precious extra seconds, preventing them from taking an extra base, and if they tried anyway, his deft handling of the bounce and accurate throwing arm were liable to make them pay the price. Once while running the basepaths himself, Yastrzemski found a unique way to induce a throwing error.
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The specialization makes the cue significantly stiffer, which aids in handling the larger and heavier billiard balls as compared with pool cues. It also acts to reduce (sometimes called "squirt"), which is displacement of the cue ball's path away from the parallel line formed by the cue stick's direction of travel. It is a factor that occurs every time () is employed, and its effects are magnified by speed. In some carom games, deflection plays a large role because many shots require extremes of side-spin, coupled with great speed; this is a combination typically minimized as much as possible, by contrast, in pool.
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On September 22, 1924, Willie Hoppe, the world's balkline champion (who later took up three-cushion with a passion), and Ralph Greenleaf, the world's straight pool title holder, played a well advertised, multi-day, to 600 . Hoppe was the eventual winner with a final score in of 600-527\. Three-cushion billiards retains great popularity in parts of Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and is the most popular carom billiards game played in the US today, where pool is far more widespread. The principal governing body of the sport is the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB).
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William Alexander Spinks Jr. (1865–1933) was an American professional player of carom billiards in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was often referred to as W. A. Spinks, and occasionally Billy Spinks. In addition to being amateur Pacific Coast Billiards Champion several times, a world-champion contender in more than one cue sports discipline, and an exhibition player in Europe, he became the co-inventor (with William Hoskins) of modern billiard cue chalk in 1897. He was originally (and again in retirement from the billiards circuit) a Californian, but spent much of his professional career in Chicago, Illinois.
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The Billiard Room is decorated with an ornamental plaster ceiling and rich oak paneling and was equipped with both a custom-made pool table and a carom table (table without pockets). The room was mainly frequented by men, but ladies were welcome to enter as well. Secret door panels on either side of the fireplace led to the private quarters of the Bachelors' Wing where female guests and staff members were not allowed. The wing includes the Smoking Room, which was fashionable for country houses, and the Gun Room, which held mounted trophies and displayed George Vanderbilt's gun collection.
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The lowest numbered ball must be struck first, but the 3 ball cannot be pocketed earlier than last with a combination, kiss or carom shot the way the 9 ball can in nine-ball. I.e., the game called "three-ball" in this case is really nothing but a shortened form of nine-ball with a single rule change. Another optional rule is that if the initial break attempt completely misses the racked balls, the subsequent break attempt(s) must be taken from where the cue ball comes to rest; the cue ball cannot be re-placed behind the head string.
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A typical modern balkline table configuration showing lines and anchor spaces. The center box is an artifact of balkline placement, and is never subject to balk space restrictions. Balkline is the overarching title of a group of carom billiards games generally played with two and a third, red , on a -covered, 5 foot × 10 foot, table that is divided by lines drawn on the surface, called , into marked regions called . Such balk spaces define areas of the in which a player may only score up to a threshold number of points while the are within that region.
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De Oro c. 1912 Alfredo de Oro (April 28, 1863 – April 22 or 23, 1948) was a Cuban professional carom billiards and pool player who several times held the world title in both three-cushion billiards and straight pool simultaneously. He was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1967, one of the very few non-Americans to receive the honor."The BCA Hall of Fame" , Billiard Congress of America, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States; accessed February 2, 2007 He was ranked number 4 on the Billiards Digest 50 Greatest Players of the Century.
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Since 1976, a second polyisoprene rubber plant has been put into operation and later facilities for the manufacture of latex and butadiene- styrene rubbers. The synthetic rubber output was 30,820 tonnes in 1965 and 155,909 tonnes in 1985, of which the polyisoprene rubber was 57,079 tonnes in 1985. In 1970 the fourth line of rubber was put into operation and 70,000 tons of synthetic rubber was produced in that year. The manufactured rubber products were: CAROM 1500: for automotive tires, tractors, scooters, motorcycles, technical articles, conveyor belts, transmission belts and other items requiring good physical properties and good strength.
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Mr. A.M. Doherty played a game > with the exhibitor, and at twenty-eight points left the balls in a scattered > position, which were gathered at one shot by Mr. Adams, who made fifty shots > in sixty seconds. What seemed his most difficult shot was that of placing > fifteen balls in a line, and a piece of chalk on the last ball. The hand > ball was then dropped a distance of two feet, described a semi-circle, > making a carom on all of the balls and freezing against the last ball. > Adams' finger shots discount Schaeffer, Slosson and J. Carter combined.
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Five-pins table, showing the location of the pins. The regulation game is played on a less normal carom billiards table, with standardized playing surface dimensions of 1.42 by 2.84 m (approximately 4-2/3 by 9-1/3 ft), plus/minus 5 mm (approx. 0.2 in), from to cushion. The slate of the table must be heated to about 5 degrees C (9 degrees F) above room temperature, which helps to keep moisture out of the cloth to aid the balls rolling and rebounding in a consistent manner, and generally makes the table play "faster".
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Jacob Schaefer Sr., circa 1880s Signature of Jacob Schaefer Jacob (Jake) Schaefer Sr. (February 2, 1855 - March 8, 1910), nicknamed "the Wizard", was a professional carom billiards player, especially of the straight rail and balkline games, and was posthumously inducted into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame in 1968."Hall of Fame Inductees, 1966-68", Billiards Congress of America, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA; accessed February 3, 2007 Schaefer was born in 1855 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the first US- born son of German emigrants. He was the father of fellow billiards pro Jacob Schaefer Jr. (1894-1975).
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"WPA Tournament Table & Equipment Specifications" , World Pool-Billiard Association, November 2001. Modern coin-operated pool tables generally use one of three methods to distinguish and return the cue ball to the front of the table while the numbered balls return to an inaccessible receptacle until paid for again: the cue ball is larger and heavier than the other balls, or denser and heavier, or has a magnetic core. Modern cue sticks are generally long for pool while cues prior to 1980 were designed for straight pool and had an average length of . By comparison, carom billiards cues are generally shorter with larger tips, and snooker cues longer with smaller tips.
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As a competitive sport, pool is governed internationally by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), which has multi- national, regional affiliates comprising the All Africa Pool Association (AAPA), Asian Pocket Billiard Union (APBU, including the Middle East), Billiard Congress of America (BCA, Canada and the US), Confederación Panamericana de Billar (CPB, Latin America and Caribbean), European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF, including Russia and the Near East), and Oceania Pocket Billiard Association (OPBA, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific islands). The WPA represents pool in the World Confederation of Billiards Sports, which in turn represents all forms of cue sports (including carom billiards and snooker) in the International Olympic Committee.
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Larger tables may require multiple lamps to properly light the playing surface. A billiard table or billiards table is a bounded table on which cue sports are played. In the modern era, all billiards tables (whether for carom billiards, pool, pyramid or snooker) provide a flat surface usually made of quarried slate, that is covered with cloth (usually of a tightly-woven worsted wool called baize), and surrounded by vulcanized rubber cushions, with the whole elevated above the floor. More specific terms are used for specific sports, such as snooker table and pool table, and different-sized billiard balls are used on these table types.
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McCreery won the Amateur Championship of Missouri four straight times. He posted high runs during competition of 336 at straight rail; 54 at cushion caroms, and 14 at three cushion—in which his "remarkable skill has given him a worldwide reputation." In the estimation of Willie Hoppe, a 51-time world champion in three forms of carom billiards, McCreery was "one of the finest performers [at straight rail] in the country." In February 1899, McCreery competed against Martin Mullen and Wilson P. Foss in the American Athletic Union's Class A Amateur Championship of America, at 14-point balkline held at New York City's Knickerbocker Club.
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In a short time Mingaud's cue tip innovation became the norm and rapid improvements in the game followed in its wake. In 1823 cue tips from Europe were introduced into the United States, but as their fame had long since preceded them, some of domestic make were already in use.Further development of the leather cue tip - 'Hénine Ainé' was founded in 1830 and improved Mingaud's invention by creating the 'screw-in tip', making tip replacement a much easier affair. Soon after the introduction of cue tips in France Carom billiards, requiring heavy manipulation of spin, became popular and the scoring by way of "hazards" or pockets was gradually abolished.
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In North America in the 1950s and 1960s especially, pool halls in particular were perceived as a social ill by many, and laws were passed in many jurisdictions to set age limits at pool halls and restrict gambling and the sale of alcohol."Images of the American pool hall show a man’s world of escape and vice". Timeline, Rian Dundon, Jan 30, 2017 The song "Trouble" in the 1957 hit musical The Music Man lampooned this prejudice (even contrasting carom billiards, requiring "judgement, brains, and maturity", versus pool, said to be a gateway to laziness, gambling, smoking and philandering). Public perception had become less critical by the 1990s.
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The games' use of first-person perspective, rather than using an overhead view, contributed to the series' success. The complexity of the games increased over time, from Virtual Pool four game types to Virtual Pool 4 18 pool games on championship and bar tables, snooker, English billiards, four carom games and four pub pool eight- ball games. Other improvements included more venues and computerized opponents, equipment-upgrade purchases, customizable tables, video tutorials, two career-play modes and a trick-shot library. Online capability includes pool rooms with multiple players and spectators, tournaments, ladders, a social network with player profiles, friends, statistics and shot uploads.
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The game was successful, and Virtual Pool 2 (with a wider range of pool games, including three-ball and bank pool) was produced in 1997. Virtual Pool 2, with improved graphics, was released exclusively for PC. Over 120 AI opponents and online multiplayer capability were introduced, with Mike Sigil joining Butera for this game. The following year's Virtual Pool Hall for Windows contained graphics and game modes similar to Virtual Pool 2 and features which would be retained in Virtual Pool 3, including a snooker mode (adapted from Virtual Snooker) and the series' first carom billiards mode. The game contained instructional videos similar to VP2, performed by world champion Mike Sigel.
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The word carom, which simply means any strike and rebound, was in use in reference to billiards by at least 1779, sometimes spelled "carrom". Sources differ on the origin. It has been pegged variously as a shortening of the Spanish and Portuguese word carambola, or the French word carambole, which are used to describe the red object ball. Some etymologists have suggested that carambola, in turn, was derived from a yellow-to-orange, tropical Asian fruit also known in Portuguese as a carambola (which was a corruption of the original name of the fruit, karambal in the Marathi language of India),Douglas Harper (2001).
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Chinese eight-ball (sometimes rendered "Chinese" eight-ball, and also known as eight-ball kiss, reversed eight-ball or backwards eight-ball), is a two-player pool game originating in the United States which is played similarly to standard eight-ball except the player shoots at the instead of the reverse in the normal game, which brings in elements of carom billiards games. It is similar in game mechanics, if not exact rules, to Russian pyramid, but using typical American pool equipment. The game probably takes its name from the fanciful notion that things might be done backwards on the other side of the world (cf. Chinese fire drill, etc.).
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She topped the table for qualifying, then in the knockout competition defeated Aye Mi Aung 3–0 and Ka Kai Wan 3–1, then winning 3–0 against Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan. Kamani was selected as part of "Women's Team Asia" which won at the World Team Trophy event in Paris in March 2019. This was a demonstration event to promote the inclusion of cue sports at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, featuring simultaneous play of three games, snooker, carom and pool, in the same hall. She was runner-up to Nutcharut Wongharuthai in the 2019 International Billiards and Snooker Federation World Women's 6 Reds Championship, losing 2–4 in the final.
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Kim Ga-young (born 13 January 1983 in Seoul; sometimes referred to in the Western media as Ga-young Kim and nicknamed "Little Devil Girl") is a South Korean female professional pool player who plays on the Women's Professional Billiard Association Tour. Her father began teaching her to play three-cushion billiards (a form of carom billiards) when she was about twelve years old. After playing three-cushion for about three years, she started playing nine- ball pool and turned pro at the 2003 BCA Open. Kim practices about 30 hours a week and enjoys a friendly rivalry with fellow Asian WPBA player Pan Xiaoting of China.
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Captain François Mingaud (sometimes spelled Mingot, Mengaud or Minguad, and often referred to simply as M. Mingaud; born 4 January 1771 Le Cailar, Nîmes, France, died 23 December 1847, Rotterdam, NetherlandsHistory of Snooker Games, Michael Stook. Citing Roberts on Billiards (1869), John Roberts, Sr.History of Billiards - profile of François Mingaud ) was an infantry officer in the French army and a carom billiards player. He is credited as the inventor of the leather for a billiards cue, a "possibly not original idea" that he perfected while imprisoned in Bicêtre (now Bicêtre Hospital) for political outspokenness. This revolutionized the game of billiards, allowing the cue ball to be finely manipulated by the application of .
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Players skilled at carom and kiss shots are at a marginal advantage in three- ball, because sometimes the only way to win is to sink two balls with one shot; average players lacking expertise in multi-ball shots succeed at this only a truly negligible percentage of the time, while expert players can make them a still quite small, but statistically meaningful, percent of the time. Otherwise, players skilled at eight-ball, nine-ball, one-pocket and/or straight pool are well-equipped to excel at three-ball. Because of the value of pocketing multiple (especially all) object balls on the break, a strong break (and a skilled one, if the balls are triangularly racked) is an important technique.
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Fred Jago The Glossary of the Cornish Dialect (1882) One theory about the origins of the rhyme is that it is descended from Old English or Welsh counting, similar to the old Shepherd's count "Yan Tan Tethera" or the Cornish "Eena, mena, mona, mite". Another possibility is that British colonials returning from India introduced a doggerel version of an Indian children's rhyme used in the game of carom billiards: :baji neki baji thou, :elim tilim latim gou.Nihar Ranjan Mishra, From Kamakhya, a socio-cultural study (New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2004), p. 157. Another possible origin is from a Swahili poem brought to the Americas by enslaved Africans: Iino ya mmiini maiini mo.
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Most of the same rules apply as in nine-ball. This means that in order to establish a legal hit, the cue ball must contact the lowest numbered ball first, and subsequently at least one ball must hit any rail or be pocketed, without the cue ball being pocketed. In 10-ball, shots have to be , which means that the player must call a ball and the pocket in which to make the ball, usually by pointing to a pocket with his finger or cue, and stating the number of the ball he intends to make in that pocket (not necessarily the lowest-numbered ball on the table, e.g. if a combination or carom shot is being attempted).
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Chris Sabo untied the game in the seventh when he golfed a hanging curveball by Walk into the left field stands for a two-run homer. With no outs in the eighth, Jay Bell hit a home run that knocked Rijo out of the game and cut the lead to 4–3. Piniella called on Myers and two batters later Bonilla hammered another ball that hit high off the center-field fence and out of the reach of the leaping Billy Hatcher. As Bonilla rounded second and motored on to third, left fielder Eric Davis ran out toward center, fielded the carom and threw a one hop strike to Sabo at third; gunning down the aggressive Bobby Bonilla.
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The lawsuit alleged that Montgomery Ward's Christmas catalog and newspaper ads misrepresented the carrom name by marketing a similar product made by Merdel with the name "carom" with one "r" to mislead the public. The lawsuit claimed that Montgomery Ward salespeople were representing to the public that what they were buying was the genuine original game of carroms, which was not correct. Their stores were, in fact, selling the copied reproduction of the game that was being produced by Merdel and sold for a lower price than the original game from Carrom Company. carroms video demonstration The carroms games branch of Affiliated moved to Sardis, Michigan, in 1972 and shut down later that year.
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The IBSF was (alongside the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association, WPBSA) one of the two snooker-focused organisational member of the World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS). The WCBS is an organisation that promotes cue sports in the form of carom, pool and snooker; one of its aims is to gain the acceptance of cue sports disciplines into the Olympic Games. The World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) terminated its relationship with the IBSF on 31 July 2017, over conflicts involving the two organisations' relative leadership positions within WCBS, making allegations of IBSF misconduct. As a result of the split, the WPBSA has revoked the Professional Main Tour cards that were once afforded to the IBSF World Men's and World Under-21 Champions.
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There are many sizes and styles of billiard tables. With the exception of some variants of bumper pool, and some novelty tables, all billiard tables are rectangles that are twice as long as they are wide. Quality tables have a multi-slab slate bed over which the cloth (baize) is stretched. Less-rigid materials are prone to game-affecting changes due to humidity, and even permanent warping, as well as other problems. The international standard for carom billiard tables is a playing surface (measured from to rail cushion) of 2.84 by 1.42 m (112 by 56 in, or 9.32 by 4.66 ft), +/- 5 mm, though many (especially American) tables for amateur use are 10 x 5 ft (3 by 1.5 m).
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The Bowling, Billiard and Boules Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran (BBFIR), more commonly known as the Iran Bowling and Cue Sports Federation (IranBCS) is the governing body in Iran of bowling and cue sports (including snooker, carom billiards and pool). Founded in 2000, the organization was originally known as the Iran Bowling and Billiards Federation (IBBF). BBFIR is member of the Iran National Olympic Committee, and is also the national affiliate of Fédération Internationale des Quilleurs, World Tenpin Bowling Association, the Asian Confederation of Billiard Sports (regional division of the World Confederation of Billiards Sports), International Billiards and Snooker Federation and World Pool-Billiard Association, and Asian Pocket Billiard Union as the governing body of these sports in Iran.
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It is an especially important requirement for the games of three-cushion billiards and artistic billiards, and even local billiard halls often have this feature in countries where carom games are popular. Heating table beds is an old practice. Queen Victoria (1819–1901) had a billiard table that was heated using zinc tubes, although the aim at that time was chiefly to keep the then-used ivory balls from warping. The first use of electric heating was for an 18.2 balkline tournament held in December 1927 between Welker Cochran and Jacob Schaefer Jr. The New York Times announced it with fanfare: "For the first time in the history of world's championship balkline billiards a heated table will be used ..."The New York Times (16 December 1927).
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One such version, Arena football, is current; however, it must be taken from either a place kick or drop kick, because punts are illegal in that league. Arena football also has the advantage in that it features rebound nets surrounding the goal posts; thus, unlike in the outdoor game, a potential onside kick receiver does not have to outrun the speed of the kicked ball, and the kicker can carom the ball off the net in hopes of it landing in his teammate's arms. The XFL, in its 2001 season, allowed a punting team to recover its own kick if the punt went at least 25 yards past the line of scrimmage. The 2020 revival of the XFL did not revive this rule.
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The Visalia Rawhide mascot is a Holstein Bull named Tipper, introduced on October 15, 2008. Tipper represents the tens of thousands of Holsteins in Tulare County, the top dairy-producing area in the country. Tipper's home is a ballpark barn - a 40' x 20' red barn which is part of the outfield fence - doubles carom off the side of the barn, and home runs land on the roof, leading to a new twist on the old baseball adage "couldn't hit the broad side of the barn" which now represents weak hitters instead of wild pitchers. The traditional red barn was built as a "community barn raising" to raise awareness for Habitat for Humanity and stands as an icon for the agricultural heritage of the valley.
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Frank B. Adams (December 19, 1847 – after January 1923), commonly known as Yank Adams, was a professional carom billiards player who specialized in finger billiards, in which a player directly manipulates the balls with his or her hands, instead of using an implement such as a cue stick, often by twisting the ball between one's thumb and middle finger. Adams, who was sometimes billed as the "Digital Billiard Wonder", has been called the "greatest of all digit billiards players", and the "champion digital billiardist of the World." George F. Slosson, a top billiards player of Adams' era, named him the "greatest exhibition player who ever lived." Adams' exhibitions drew audiences of 1,000 or more, leaving standing room only, even in small venues.
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André Gagnaux (died February 1996), who was a Swiss, was the first President of the World Confederation of Billiard Sports (WCBS) and the former President of the Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB). He was credited for the foundation of WCBS in 1992, when he first tried to contact various governing body of billiards sports since 1985 in order to fulfill the recognition criteria of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), that a recognized sport must be governed by only one international sport federation. After various discussion with the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). At last, he called for a meeting on August 30, 1990, in Bristol, UK, with the presence of all the three major cue sports representatives, namely, carom, pool and snooker.
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As a result, it was decided to form the World Confederation of Billiard Sports (WCBS), an umbrella organization encompassing all billiards sports, and a three-man committee consisting of Gagnaux himself for Carom, Jorgen Sandman for Pool and Mark Wildman for Snooker was appointed in order to work out the first constitution, to serve as a guideline for this new body. The following 18 months were spent on this work, which was somewhat complicated since the idea was to enable the various disciplines to work closely together, while maintaining their independence. The inaugural General Assembly of the WCBS was held in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, on January 25, 1992. Gagnaux was elected as the first President of the confederation, an office he carried until 1996.
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NHL fan exhibit, where visitors attempt to deflect the puck off the skaters in front of the goalie in order to score A deflection is a shot that redirects a shot or a pass towards the goal from another player, by allowing the puck to strike the stick and carom towards the goal. A one-timer is a shot struck directly off a pass, without receiving the pass and shooting in two separate actions. Headmanning the puck, also known as breaking out, is the tactic of rapidly passing to the player farthest down the ice. Loafing, also known as cherry-picking, is when a player, usually a forward, skates behind an attacking team, instead of playing defence, in an attempt to create an easy scoring chance.
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Katsura's participation in the 1952 World Three-Cushion Billiards title marked the first time that a woman had competed for any world billiards title. This was only ten years after Ruth McGinness became the first woman to have ever been invited to play in any men's professional billiard championship (the New York State Championship of 1942). The defending champion was the then 64-year-old internationally renowned Willie Hoppe, who would retire later that year with 51 world titles to his name between 1906 and 1952 in three forms of carom billiards: balkline, one-cushion, and three-cushion. Before the tournament, speculation had it that when Hoppe met Katsura in the championship in the to 50 points format, he would defeat her with Katsura still needing at least 40.
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Ground billiards is a modern term for a family of medieval European lawn games, the original names of which are mostly unknown, played with a long- handled mallet (the '), wooden balls, a hoop (the pass), and an upright skittle or pin (the king). The game, which at least three cue-sports historians call "the original game of billiards", developed into a variety of modern outdoor and indoor games and sports such as croquet, pool, snooker, and carom billiards. Its relationship to games played on larger fields, such as hockey, golf, and bat-and-ball games, is more speculative. As a broader classification, the term is sometimes applied to games dating back to classical antiquity that are attested via difficult-to-interpret ancient artworks and rare surviving gaming artifacts.
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Three-cushion dates to the 1870s, and while the origin of the game is not entirely known, it evolved from one-cushion carom, which 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 challenging, less repetitive, and more interesting for spectators as well as players, by thwarting the ability of highly skilled players to rack up point after point at will by relying on . Wayman C. McCreery, popularizer and possible inventor of three-cushion billiards It is undisputed that the Internal Revenue Collector of the Port of St. Louis, Missouri, one Wayman Crow McCreery, born June 14, 1851 in St. Louis,U.S. Passport Application for Wayman Crow McCreery dated May 30, 1895.
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Michael Phelan's Billiard Saloon located at the corner of 10th street and Broadway in Manhattan, January 1, 1859. Straight rail, sometimes called straight billiards, three-ball billiard, and the free game, is a discipline of carom billiards that is the most basic form of the game. The game is played on a unmarked billiard table, usually in size, and three billiard balls, one, usually white, that serves as the for the first player, a second cue ball for the second player (differentiated by a spot, or by being yellow), and a third object ball, usually red. The object of the game is to score points striking the player's assigned cue ball with a cue stick so it makes contact with both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball in the same , known as a .
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The final element was the ' (or ) shot, which came from carom or carambole billiards, a three-ball game popular in various countries of western Continental Europe, especially popularized by France (and today also popular in many parts of Asia and South America). In the 1700s, the carambole game added a red to the two white cue balls, and dispensed with the pockets. This ball was adopted into the English game, which retained the pockets, and the goal was to cannon off both the red and the opponent's ball on a single shot, earning 2 points. This influence on the English game appears to have come about through the popularity of French tables in English coffee houses; London alone had over two thousand such establishments in the early 18th century.
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The aim of virtually all carom billiards games to amass a predetermined score (25, 50, 1000, etc.) before the opponent does so, or amass a greater score than the opponent within a predetermined about of time. In most such games, one successful shot earns one point, with no penalty for a miss, but some games, such as Italian five-pins, provide various different scoring and opportunities. Some pool games work on the principle of a point per ball up to a pre-set score (14.1 continuous or straight pool, for example), while others have point-scoring systems based on the number shown on the ball, lowest-score wins systems, or last-man-standing rules. The most popular pool games today, however, are "" games, in which a specific ball must be pocketed under particular conditions in order to win.
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Monday, October 11, 1993, at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia With the series tied 2–2, the Phillies and Braves needed extra innings to decide Game 5. Philadelphia got on the board in the first off Steve Avery when Mariano Duncan singled and John Kruk doubled down the right field line. In the bottom of the first, the Braves missed a chance to score when Fred McGriff hit one off the top of the right field fence sending Jeff Blauser racing around third to try to score. However, Wes Chamberlain fielded the carom cleanly, threw to shortstop Kevin Stocker, who then relayed the ball home to nail Blauser. In the fourth the Phils went up 2–0 on Chamberlain's sacrifice fly which scored Pete Incaviglia who had reached on a three base error committed by Ron Gant.
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A young cricketer by W.G. Grace, 1891 Some historians - most notably Bernard Lewis - claim that team sports as we know them today are primarily an invention of Western culture. British Prime Minister John Major was more explicit in 1995: :We invented the majority of the world's great sports.... 19th century Britain was the cradle of a leisure revolution every bit as significant as the agricultural and industrial revolutions we launched in the century before. The traditional team sports are seen as springing primarily from Britain, and subsequently exported across the vast British Empire. European colonialism helped spread particular games around the world, especially cricket (not directly related to baseball), football of various sorts, bowling in a number of forms, cue sports (like snooker, carom billiards, and pool), hockey and its derivatives, equestrian, and tennis, and many winter sports.
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The most popular pool game in the world (but unfortunately the one with the least consistent rules from area to area) is eight-ball, in which each player attempts to pocket a particular () of balls, and then finally the 8 ball. In nine-ball and its variant seven-ball, there are no suits, and each player must always shoot the lowest-numbered ball on the table first, and either attempt to eliminate all of them in turn to pocket the namesake money ball on the last shot, or use the lowest-numbered ball in some way to pocket the money ball early. A game increasingly popular among professionals is ten-ball, which is played with the same core rules, except that (in the internationally standardized version) the 10 ball cannot be pocketed early for an easy win. Some games combine aspects of both carom and pocket billiards.
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Referee marking balklines at the European Carom Billiards Championships 2015. For the most part, the differences between one balkline game to another is defined by two measures: the distance of the balklines from the cushions,and the number of points that are allowed in each balk space before at least one ball must leave the region. Generally, balkline games, and their particular restrictions, are given numerical names indicating both of these characteristics; the first number indicates the distance in either inches or centimeters (depending on the units used) and the second, after a dot, indicates the count restriction in balk spaces, which is usually either one or two. For example, in 18.2 balkline, one of the more prominent balkline games of U.S. origin, the name indicates that balklines are drawn from each rail, and only two counts are allowed in a balk space before a ball must leave.
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Snooker butts are usually flat on one side so that the cue may be laid flat on the table and slid along the baize under a to strike the cushion-ward side of the when it is to the cushion (such a shot is not legal in pool or carom games under most rulesets). This tactile flat part of the butt also helps the player develop a very specific way of holding the cue, consistent on every shot for a very uniform (snooker, in the case of many if not most shots, requires much more precision than pool). Snooker cue weights vary between 16 and 18 oz. While a lighter cue is usually for beginners to develop correct technique when starting out, some professional snooker players use lighter cues (15 – 16 1/2 oz.), Joe Davis, John Spencer, Terry Griffiths, Mark Williams and Paul Hunter, to name a few.
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The term "" is sometimes used to refer to all of the cue sports, to a specific class of them, or to specific ones such as English billiards; this article uses the term in its most generic sense unless otherwise noted. The labels "British" and "UK" as applied to entries in this glossary refer to terms originating in the UK and also used in countries that were fairly recently part of the British Empire and/or are part of the Commonwealth of Nations, as opposed to US (and, often, Canadian) terminology. The terms "American" or "US" as applied here refer generally to North American usage. However, due to the predominance of US-originating terminology in most internationally competitive pool (as opposed to snooker), US terms are also common in the pool context in other countries in which English is at least a minority language, and US (and borrowed French) terms predominate in carom billiards.
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Generally, balkline games and their particular restrictions are given numerical names indicating both of these characteristics; the first number indicated either inches or centimeters depending on the game, and the second, after a dot or a slash, indicates the count restriction in balk spaces, which is always either one or two. For example, in 18.2 balkline, one of the more prominent balkline games and of US origin, the name indicates that balklines are drawn 18 inches distant from each rail, and only two counts are allowed in a balk space before a ball must leave. By contrast, in 71.2 balkline, of French invention, lines are drawn 71 centimeters distant from each rail, also with a two-count restriction for balk spaces. In the heavily French-influenced lingo of carom billiards, the first of these shots is called the and the second the ; in one-count balkline games, the one permitted count is called .
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The demand for tables and other equipment was initially met in Europe by John Thurston and other furniture makers of the era. The early balls were made from wood and clay, but the rich preferred to use ivory. Early billiard games involved various pieces of additional equipment, including the "arch" (related to the croquet hoop), "port" (a different hoop) and "king" (a pin or skittle near the arch) in the 1770s, but other game variants, relying on the cushions (and eventually on pockets cut into them), were being formed that would go on to play fundamental roles in the development of modern billiards. Illustration of a three-ball pocket billiards game in early 19th century Tübingen, Germany, using a table much longer than the modern type The early croquet-like games eventually led to the development of the carom or carambole billiards category – what most non-Commonwealth and non-US speakers mean by the word billiards.
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The OED defines it as generally "any of various types of billiards for two or more players" but goes on to note that the first specific meaning of "a game in which each player uses a cue ball of a distinctive colour to pocket the balls of the other player(s) in a certain order, the winner taking all the stakes submitted at the start of the contest" is now obsolete, and its other specific definitions are all for games that originate in the United States. In the British Empire for most of the nineteenth through early twentieth century, pool referred specifically to the game of life pool. Although skittle pool is played on a pocketless carom billiards table, the term pool later stuck to all new games of pocket billiards as the sport gained in popularity in the United States, and so outside the cue sports industry, which has long favored the more formal term pocket billiards, the common name for the sport has remained pool. The OxfordDictionaries.
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