A GAME OF BILLIARDS.
Here is a little problem concerning the scores of two players eugaged in i the scientific game of billiards, and after the reader has carefully perused the statement of it, he will no doubt decide tl)at the solu +ion can be arrived at without the aid of either pen or pencil. The game was "one hundred up," and after a little scoring by each player Jones made a break of ten points, followed by a miss in "balk," which for the information of the •unitiated means that he gave his opponent one point by placing his own ball in a comparatively . safe position. Jones's score -was then exactly double Brown's. The latter player then got in a "run" of twenty-five in one break, which gaye him a lead of ten points over the other. From these particulars there are two questions to find the correct answers to, namely, "what were the respective scores before Jones 1 made his ten-break, and by how many points did the successful player win, if after the scores as recorded above, each player made sixty points?
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 50, 28 February 1931, Page 21
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185A GAME OF BILLIARDS. Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 50, 28 February 1931, Page 21
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