18. If the striker hole his own off the red ball, he wins three points.

19. If the striker hole both his adversary’s and the red ball, he wins

five points.

20. If the striker, by playing at the red ball, hole his own and the red

ball, he wins six points.

21. If the striker, by hitting the white ball first, hole both his own

and the adversary’s ball, he wins four points.

22. If the striker, by striking at the red ball first, hole both his own

and his adversary’s ball, he wins five points: three for holing his own

ball off the red, and two for holing the white ball.

23. If the striker play at his adversary’s ball first, and hole his own

ball and the red, he wins five points: two for holing his own ball off

the white, and three for holing the red ball.

24. If the striker play at his adversary’s ball, and hole it, at the

same time that he pockets both his own ball and the red, he wins seven

points: two for holing his own ball off the white, two for holing his

adversary’s, and three for holing the red ball.

25. If the striker play at the red, and hole his own ball off the same,

and the red ball, and his adversary’s ball, by the same stroke, he wins

eight points: three for holing his own ball off the red, three for

holing the red, and two for holing the white ball.

26. If the striker make a carambole, and by the same stroke pocket his

adversary’s ball, he wins four points: two for the carambole, and two

for the white hazard.

27. If the striker make a carambole, and pocket the red ball, he wins

five points: two for the carambole, and three for the red hazard.

28. If the striker should carambole, and hole both the red and his

adversary’s ball, he gains seven points: two for the carambole, two for

the white, and three for the red ball.

29. If the striker make a carambole by striking the white ball first,

and hole his own by the same stroke, he wins four points: two for the

carom, and two for the white losing hazard.

30. If the striker make a carambole by striking the red ball first, and

by the same stroke pocket his own ball, he wins five points: two for the

carambole, and three for the red losing hazard.

31. If the striker play at the white ball first, and should make a

carambole, and also hole his own and his adversary’s ball, he wins six

points: two for the carambole, and two for each white hazard.

32. If the striker play at the red ball first, and carambole, and should

likewise hole his own and his adversary’s ball, he gains seven points:

two for the carom, three for the red hazard, and two for the white

hazard.

33. If the striker should carambole by playing first at the white ball,

and also hole his own and the red ball, he wins seven points: two for

the carom, two for the white losing hazard, and three for the red

winning hazard.

35. If the striker should carambole by striking the white ball first,

and hole his own and his adversary’s, and the red ball, he wins nine

points: two for the carambole, two for each of the white hazards, and

three for the red hazard.

36. If the striker should carambole by striking the red ball first, and

by the same stroke hole his own and the red, and his adversary’s ball,

he gains ten points: two for the carambole, three for red losing, three

for the red winning, and two for the white winning hazard.

37. After the adversary’s ball is off the table, and the two remaining

balls are either upon the line, or within the stringing nails or spots,

at the upper end where the white balls are originally placed in leading,

it is called a _baulk_; and the striker, who is to play from the ring,

must strike the opposite cushion, to make his ball rebound, so as to hit

one of the balls in the baulk—which if he do not, he loses one point.

38. It sometimes happens, after the red ball has been holed or forced

over the table, that one of the white balls so occupies its place, that

it cannot be put upon its proper spot without touching the same. In such

a case, the marker must hold the red ball in his hand, while the striker

plays at his adversary’s ball, and immediately afterwards replace the

red on its proper spot, so that it may not prevent a carambole, &c.

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