Fifteen-ball pool

Created by members of the Bassford's Billiard & Chess Rooms in Manhattan during the late 1830s or 1840s, it is the ancestor to many American pool games.

[2] The object is to be the first player to score at least 61 points (this being more than half of the total of all the ball numbers combined), to win a frame.

[1]: 205 The first tournament was held in 1878 at the Union Square Billiard Rooms in New York City which was won by the Canadian Cyrille Dion who defeated Gotthiel Wahlstrom of Sweden.

[4] Alfredo de Oro recalled that in 1887, an English spectator pointed out that Albert M. Frey won despite pocketing fewer balls than his opponent John L. Malone.

He offered 200 dollars for a rematch in which the first person to pot a hundred balls would win; Frey won again.