carom

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Last year, the idea that billiards lacked social prestige gave rise to institutions like Manhattan's Carom Club for socialite and celebrated billiardists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Carom billiards is played on a pocketless table with only three balls.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Cushion Carom game is a variety of the ordinary three-ball game, in which no carom counts unless the cue-ball touches a cushion before the carom is completed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

How any room, attic, basement or loft gives plenty of space for a real Brunswick Carom or Pocket Table--now made in sizes from 2-1/2x5 feet to 4-1/2x9 feet, regulation.

From Boy Scouts in Southern Waters by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)

There is also Three-Cushion Carom, which is explained by its title, and the Bank-Shot game, in which the cue-ball must touch a cushion before it strikes either ball.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various