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  2. François Mingaud - Wikipedia

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    Inventing the leather tip for a billiards cue Captain François Mingaud (sometimes spelled Mingot , Mengaud or Minguad , [ 1 ] and often referred to simply as M. Mingaud ; 4 January 1771 in Le Cailar , Nîmes , France – 23 December 1847, in Rotterdam , Netherlands [ 2 ] [ 3 ] ) was an infantry officer in the French Army and a carom billiards ...

  3. Cue stick - Wikipedia

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    A player using a cue stick to push a billiard ball forward to move an object ball A pool cue and its major parts. [1]: 71–72 [2]A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards.

  4. George Balabushka - Wikipedia

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    George Balabushka (Russian: Григорий Антонович Балабушка Grigoriy Antonovich Balabushka; December 9, 1912 – December 5, 1975) was a Russian-born billiards (pool) cue maker, arguably the most prominent member of that profession, [1] and is sometimes referred to as "the Stradivarius of cuemakers".

  5. Portal:Cue sports - Wikipedia

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    A leather shake bottle and plastic pills or peas as used in kelly pool Kelly pool (also known as pea pool , pill pool , keeley , the keilley game , and killy ) is a pool game played on a standard pool table using a standard set of 16 pool balls .

  6. Comparison of cue sports - Wikipedia

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    The butt end of the cue is of larger circumference and is intended to be gripped by the player's shooting hand, while the cue shaft is narrower, usually tapering to a 10 to 15 mm (0.4 to 0.6 in) rigid terminus called a ferrule, where a leather tip is affixed to make final contact with balls. Cues can be made of different varieties of wood ...

  7. Kelly pool - Wikipedia

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    Kelly pool is a rotation game, which means that the lowest-numbered ball on the table must be contacted by the cue ball on every shot. [7] No safeties are called in kelly pool; the legal pocketing (i.e., with no foul committed on the same stroke ) of the lowest-numbered ball on the table permits and requires the shooter to continue play. [ 7 ]

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