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