balkline , auch: baulkline
string line

Its return was for similar reasons as to why balkline developed.

In 1885, 14 inches was adopted as the official balkline distance.

He mastered his skills enough to set a world record in balkline competitions.

He won his first world title in 1927 in 18.2 balkline.

The first true balkline game was proposed in 1875 but was rejected.

Other grid patterns are used in various forms of balkline billiards.

In its different forms, balkline was the main carom game played from 1883 to the 1930s.

This was reduced to five in 1896 when 18.2 balkline was gaining popularity.

Balkline succeeded the champion's game, adding more rules to curb nursing techniques.

Straight rail, unlike the balkline games, had no balk space restrictions, although one was later added.

Balkline is popular in Europe and the Far East.

Balkline came after the champion's game.

The anchor spaces were added to the game to stop nursing techniques that developed especially for the challenges of balkline without them.

Schaefer is widely considered by historians of the sport to have been America's all-time greatest balkline player.

There are many varieties of balkline, but all divide the table into marked regions called balk spaces.

Additionally, rectangles are drawn where each balkline meets a rail, called anchor spaces.

He won the 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930 World 18.2 Balkline Championships.

The new restriction was instituted for a 1914 tournament, the first in 14.1 balkline, specifically to curtail the chuck nurse.

World 18.2 Balkline Champion (1907, 1910-1920, 1923, 1924, 1927)

The format was 100 points at balkline, followed by a race to 40 at three-cushion and then a trick shot exhibition.

The main carom billiards games are straight rail, balkline and especially three cushion billiards.

World 18.1 Balkline Champion (1906, 1908-1911, 1914-1927)

While cushion caroms waxed and waned, the game of balkline was, by the late 1870s, increasingly becoming effective at limited nursing.

In 1914 he defeated Morris D. Brown and won the Balkline and straight rail championship by 400 to 386.

By contrast, in 71.2 balkline, of French invention, lines are drawn 71 centimeters distant from each rail, also with a two count restriction for balk spaces.

Higher now, the sun strung lines of light through the trees.

Return to the string line and mark the location of the posts with stakes.

She said then that she had lost only one confrontation, when a power company strung lines near the field.

The semi circle was moved along alternating sides of a string line.

Her-crewmen came out to work the clamps and string lines across to carry power.

The body of the level incorporates small hooks to allow it to attach and hang from the string line.

A line level is a level designed to hang on a builders string line.

Some fearless types even string lines hundreds of feet in the air to walk over ravines and gorges.

Then we strung lines and lowered ourselves into Deucalion crater.

Especially attractive here is the trilling, highly decorative piano part used as ornament against the string lines.

They can be as diverse as a neon multicolored look and a colorful "string line" style.

The goblins strung lines between the buildings lest they become lost in the snow and freeze to death within yards of their own doors.

The piece then moves into a technically demanding tenor aria dominated by swirling string lines.

The first step is to find the centre of the room by linking the mid-points of opposite walls with string lines.

Its string lines, at first, were fractious and abrasive, but its piano writing kept leaping in as a voice of reason.

Rates for those customers are subsidized more heavily than elsewhere because it costs more for the phone companies to string lines out to them.

And when the mud became so thick that their ropes broke under the strain, they strung lines between the trees and left the raft.

It involves measuring the offset of a string line from the outside of a curve at the central point of a chord.

Hints of the arching string lines to come in the later symphonies are here already, as is his characteristically tart woodwind writing.

It is the distance (in inches or millimeters) from the midpoint of the string line to the gauge of the reference rail.

The board leg involves paddling a modified Malibu paddle board around a set of four black-and-white string lines.

The first movement opens with mysterious muted string lines in simple triple time which gracefully develops in a similar way to classical form.

This can be done by using a 62-foot string line to be a chord to connect the arc at the gauge side of the reference rail.

"So from our Pearl Street offices we began stringing lines across lamp posts into 1 Police Plaza," he said.

By highlighting not only the bass and percussion but also the chromatic string lines in the fourth movement, he painted a remarkably vivid thunderstorm scene.