"The Game of Billiards" - Michael Phelan, 1856

…this story has my attention,

Michael Phelan, [1857], four-ball American, wins $15,000 by 96 points.

“[…] , by all odds, the most important Billiard contest that ever took place on either side of the Atlantic.”
 
"...we find that the unfortunate Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, complains in a letter to the Archbishop of Glasgow, dated Fotheringay, and written the very evening before her death, that her "Billiard table has just been taken away from her, as a preliminary step to her punishment." Doubtless, Mary having been married to the Dauphin of France, was introduced to the game during her stay in Paris."

Of which, Bob Byrnes remarked: "In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots, complains of being deprived of her billiard table while imprisoned at Fotheringay Castle. After her execution, her lady-in-waiting reports that Mary's headless body was wrapped in the cloth from the table."
 
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