Show The Origin of Billiards Billiards were first Invented says j good authority by a pawnbroker the middle of the About sixteenth cen there was one Wilhan tury Few a pawnbroker who during wet vtatiier was in the habit of taking down the three balls and with the yard measure pushing them billiard fashion from the counter into the stalls In time the idea of a board with side pocket sag j jested itself A black letter J1S says Master William Kew did make one Boarde whereby a game III i plated with tree balls and all the young men were greatly recreated thereat chiefly the young clergymen from St Pawles hence one of ye strokes was named a canon having by one of j e same clergymen clergy-men invented This game is now known of billyard because William or Bill Kew did first play with his yard measure meas-ure The stick is now called a kew or kue It is easy to comprehend how I bill yard has been mode nized into billiard and the transformation of kew or kue into cue is equally apparent ap-parent Cot pcrative Review 1 I |