The bad outfit will always furnish thirty per cent.

more fun for the players and for the spectators than will the good outfit.

Another essential of the game is that the outfit shall give the players full opportunity to exercise their best skill, and display it in a way to compel the admiration of the spectators.

Very well, the bad outfit is nothing behind the good one in this regard.

It is a difficult matter to estimate correctly the eccentricities of chipped balls and a slanting table, and make the right allowance for them and secure a count; the finest kind of skill is required to accomplish the satisfactory result.