So does that mean that if it was a regular match then it wasn't a foul? It specifically had to wait until two guys were playing for something.
Object ball off table rule?
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So does that mean that if it was a regular match then it wasn't a foul? It specifically had to wait until two guys were playing for something.
I always felt that respotting the ball only occurred based on the game. 14.1 needs to keep the ball count accurate so it get's spotted, 1P needs to keep the ball count so it needs to be spotted, anything after that would depend on who's ball left the table since one player would feel that he had the advantage by having the ball come back up. Now a loss of turn would simply be a "soft foul" in my opinion back then so no actual foul was called vs a player being awarded BIH (which i think is silly) for having an OB leave the table should the CB leave the table then fine.
Well, the earliest rule I've found that says a floored ball is a foul is this from 1807 (E. White, "A Practical Treatise on the Game of Billiards"):
Much of that book is about gambling.
It turns out that Cotton in his "The Compleat Gamester" has this to say about the subject in 1674. Note that a single non-terminal "s" is printed as "f" in Englifh in his time.
So the real question is: When did it become OK in the US to knock balls onto the floor? Presumably it was between 1807 and the 1960s.
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