Show invention oi billiards billiards la a modern fame according to some letters ered in the british museum the game win invented by a london pawnbroker named william kew one day to amuse he took the three round ball which were the emblem of ahli trade and placing them oa hl chanter began to hit them about with the yard measure lie became quite interested in his new game and loon gained great skill in making one ball glance off the other he invited his friends to join him in the gime which ther named bills yard and which was boon shortened into billiards but the instrument ased to knock the balls about was a yard measure and so to get out of the difficulty they called tt after the name of the pawnbroker a kew which in coarse of time became cue |