COUNT

Is the reckoning of the game. Making a count, is to make a stroke which will add some figures to the player's reckoning. DISCOUNT. When one player is so much the superior of another, that he allows all the counts made by his opponent to be deducted from his own reckoning, he is said to "discount" his adversary's gains. In "double" and "treble discounts," twice and thrice the amount of his opponent's gains are deducted from the player's score. In no other game but billiards are such immense odds po ible. A man of close observation, temperate habits, steady nerves, and large experience, may give almost any odds to an inferior player, and still have a fair chance of succe . DOUBLET or CROSS. When the ball to be pocketed is first made to rebound from the opposite cushion.