Pool Checkers: Spanish Pool

Pool Checkers, or Spanish Pool, is a fasci-nating game with a large and enthusiastic fol-lowing. Here is an up-to-date, concise and masterly presentation of the scientific game of Span-ish Pool. Here are model games, elemen-tary traps, beautiful problems and an all around discussion of Pool Checkers.Written in a scholarly, yet simple fashion, its contents are clear and understandable to nov-ice and expert alike. The author, Theodore P. Hines, was an internationally famous player and a National title-holder. He encoun-tered the greatest masters of the day with uni-form success and passes on to you the secrets of proper play and development. By master-ing the openings, as shown by Mr. Hines, and studying his instructive problems and end-games, the reader will emerge a more polished and stronger player.
To the millions of "regular straight" Checker players, this book will serve as an introduc-tion to a new and highly interesting variation, similar in many respects to the old English game. The rules clearly illustrate the differ-ence between the two games, and any Checker player will soon "catch on," to benefit greatly from the experience of meeting this new friend.
Pool Checkers was first published in 1947.