Show A ANEW NEW GAME GAM E OF POOL New York Sun Theres a new game of or pool in town It is so new that it spread be pt beyond yond yong New Now York to any extent yet it itis Itis ItIs is failed balk line pool and the scene of its birth was the billiard room of the Fifth Firth Avenue hotel A coterie of ot expert amateur players gather there for contests and they have been trying out the new game The standard game of pool is contin continuous continuous continuous pool It has held its popularity in spite of a thousand and one variations of or the game which have been tried and some of or which are more or less popular still Balk line pool however is a pro pronounced pronounced departure and has one merit I that most of the variations have not It puts a premium on skill and there is in it none of the haphazard happy shooting that is a prominent part of or the freak varieties In balk line pool the fifteen balls are framed In the triangle in the customary way wa Balk lines are drawn fourteen I inches from the four rails ralls and the balls I Iare are In a balk whenever they are in any of ot the spaces except the center one Any An ball bait In the center space may be driven direct to a pocket but any ball ballIn ballIn ballin In any of the other spaces must be banked It can be banked either by driving the object ball bali to the cushion or by making the cue ball strike the cushion first all there is to tho the game Its Irs very simple but obviously more dim difficult cult than the ordinary game I |