sentences:  His victory was 300–194 – surprising given that 18.1 was not his preferred game.Many articles of the era stress that Spinks was a Californian; during this period, American billiards was completely dominated by East-Coasters and a few Midwesterners.Spinks was noted in 1912 for a still-unbroken world record at 18.2 balkline, a of 1,010 continuous points, using the "" (a form of ); he could have made more, but stopped.