History of 14.1, article that documents the advent of "Continuous Pool"

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Cameron Smith

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Article is from 1887, it mentions a new game called Continuous pool, which is the father of 14.1. In this game you play out all 15 balls, re-rack and you get the opening break. It also mentions that they will start up some tournaments using these rules;). It appears that prior to Continuous pool, they only played until someone managed to score 8 points, which I guess replaced 61 pool for a short period of time.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A07E1D61E3EEF33A25753C3A9649D94669FD7CF
 
Very interesting. That would definitely explain how the game got the name "continuous pool". Then when someone got the idea of leaving the last ball on the table and re-racking is probably when the name "14.1 continuous" came to be. Now if we could only get the definitive explanation for how the name straight pool came to be.
 
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