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Woods' Baltimore Directory for 1856-57
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DANIEL D. WINANT,

BILLIARD TABLE MAKER,

(The Oldest and most extensive Manufactory of the kind in America,)

No. 71 GOLD STREET,

BETWEEN BEEKMAN AND SPRUCE,

NEW YORK.

Everything in the line furnished at ten per cent, less than any other

Establishment in the City.

TABLES, BALLS, MACES, CUES ; CLOTHS, by the piece or yard ; GIBB'S ADHESIVE CUE

WAX, SILK AND WORSTED POCKETS, FRINGES, FRENCH AND AMERICAN PATENT

CUE POINTS, CORD, POOL BOARDS, RULE BOARDS, SPANISH PINS, &c.

Orders by letter for new articles, or for repairs, attended to as prompt-
ly as if given in person.

IMPORTANT TO BILLIARD PLAYERS.

For sale at the office of Publication, No. 71 Gold street, New York,
Price $3 00.

BILLIARDS WITHOUT A MASTER.

The above-named work, the first American publication of the kind, is illustrated by
50 fine copper-plate diagrams, each containing from 1 to 24 shots, from which sufficient
knowledge may be acquired to enable the player to accomplish any possible stroke on
the billiard table, all of which are fully explained on the pages opposite to the respect-
ive plates. The work contains an invaluable and original invention in the shape of a
chart, or scale of strengths necessary to be used in making each shot, of an arrangement
so simple that it can be comprehended by all, and will be found of the highest importance
to the noTice and amateur, as every shot there delineated has been graduated by it, and
the quanity of strength necessary to be used is given in the description annexed to each
plate. It contains, also, a full and complete set of rules for the government of the game
of billiards, and the various games of pool ; hints to players -, advice to amateurs ; with
a variety of explanations interesting to all connected with billiards or billiard playing.
To keepers of billiard rooms, the "Rules" are worth more than the price of the work,
and the hints and advice are invaluable. Accompanying the work is a treatise on the
origin, rise, and progress of the game. It is also embellished by a fine steel-plate frontis-
piece, showing a billiard table and players in position. The above work is the most
complete one of the kind ever produced in any part of the world, and the only one in
which the theoretical science and philosophy of the game has ever been explained.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

BILLIARDS WITHOUT A MASTER.—The most complete and perfect book of the kind ever
issued ; a mere tyro at billiards by studying the text and diagrams, may, with a little
practice and a steady hand, compete with professed players.—United States Gazette.

Mr, Winant, the publisher, deserves the hearty thanks of the whole world of billiard
players for his liberal expenditure in furnishing them with the only fully illustrated book
on the science of billiards.—American Post.

BILLIARDS WITHOUT A MASTER.—The Shakespeare of the age—"not for a day, but for
all time." Published by D. D. Winant, New York.— Louisville Journal.

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