When did cue sports become a common game
For the average person?
When did cue sports become a common game
For the average person?
Anyone who is interested in the history of billiard games needs to get William Hendricks' booklet. The following is from page 14 of Hendricks' "History" in the section titled "The Eighteenth Century: Billiards for Everyman."For the common people, billiard games became popular in the early 1800s.
...in parlours where they gambled...the term “pool” originated in England....
....it is a gambling term....that morphed into billiard games.
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Well, Bob...your exposure must be largely based upon the Norfolk happenings.Anyone who is interested in the history of billiard games needs to get William Hendricks' booklet. The following is from page 14 of Hendricks' "History" in the section titled "The Eighteenth Century: Billiards for Everyman."
[billiards still expensive ...] Even when the affluent did not wishI have heard that billiards in Virginia is more civilized now.
to mingle, the less-wealthy colonists could be obstreperously
democratic when it came to billiards. A horrified British officer
describes a 1780 dispute at colonial billiards between a gentleman
and "a low fellow" at a public table.
I shall relate the way the accident happened, to shew the
ferociousness of the lower class in this country; this gentleman
was at play in the billiard-room, where there were a number of
gentlemen and several of our officers: a low fellow, who
pretends to gentility came in, and in the course of play, some
words arose, in which he first wantonly abused [the gentleman]
and afterward ... flew at him, and in an instant turned his eye
out of the socket, and while it hung upon his cheek, the fellow
was barbarous enough to endeavor to pluck it entirely out, but
was prevented.(*)
(*) From Jane Carson's "Colonial Virginians at Play," University
Press of Virginia, 1964, p. 85.
When did cue sports become a common game
For the average person?
In the U.S. I think you could easily go back to the beginning of the 1900's.
In Bob Byrne's "McGoorty, The Story of a Billiard Bum" McGoorty says, "Believe it or not, in the early 1920's in Cook's County, Illinois, there were 5,200 licensed pool halls." He goes on to say, "In the Chicago Loop alone -- where there is not a single poolroom today -- there were twelve big layouts, each one with no less than forty tables. Augie Kieckhefer's place at 18 East Randolph street, which was pretty much my headquarters, had fifty-five tables on one floor -- forty were billiards, the rest pool and snooker."
Lou Figueroa
Shows how Billiards, not Pocket Billiards, was the most popular game in that time period.
The white house’s first table
https://shannonselin.com/2018/04/john-quincy-adams-white-house-billiard-table/
Anyone who is interested in the history of billiard games needs to get William Hendricks' booklet. The following is from page 14 of Hendricks' "History" in the section titled "The Eighteenth Century: Billiards for Everyman."
[billiards still expensive ...] Even when the affluent did not wishI have heard that billiards in Virginia is more civilized now.
to mingle, the less-wealthy colonists could be obstreperously
democratic when it came to billiards. A horrified British officer
describes a 1780 dispute at colonial billiards between a gentleman
and "a low fellow" at a public table.
I shall relate the way the accident happened, to shew the
ferociousness of the lower class in this country; this gentleman
was at play in the billiard-room, where there were a number of
gentlemen and several of our officers: a low fellow, who
pretends to gentility came in, and in the course of play, some
words arose, in which he first wantonly abused [the gentleman]
and afterward ... flew at him, and in an instant turned his eye
out of the socket, and while it hung upon his cheek, the fellow
was barbarous enough to endeavor to pluck it entirely out, but
was prevented.(*)
(*) From Jane Carson's "Colonial Virginians at Play," University
Press of Virginia, 1964, p. 85.
Billiard parlors were popular in the old west....The Earps really did enjoy the game.....
Anyone who is interested in the history of billiard games needs to get William Hendricks' booklet. The following is from page 14 of Hendricks' "History" in the section titled "The Eighteenth Century: Billiards for Everyman."
[billiards still expensive ...] Even when the affluent did not wishI have heard that billiards in Virginia is more civilized now.
to mingle, the less-wealthy colonists could be obstreperously
democratic when it came to billiards. A horrified British officer
describes a 1780 dispute at colonial billiards between a gentleman
and "a low fellow" at a public table.
I shall relate the way the accident happened, to shew the
ferociousness of the lower class in this country; this gentleman
was at play in the billiard-room, where there were a number of
gentlemen and several of our officers: a low fellow, who
pretends to gentility came in, and in the course of play, some
words arose, in which he first wantonly abused [the gentleman]
and afterward ... flew at him, and in an instant turned his eye
out of the socket, and while it hung upon his cheek, the fellow
was barbarous enough to endeavor to pluck it entirely out, but
was prevented.(*)
(*) From Jane Carson's "Colonial Virginians at Play," University
Press of Virginia, 1964, p. 85.