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I Billiards. .0 1 !lB.-CANNONS OFF THE TOP CUSHION I I By RISO LIYJ (Copyright). I I In the position shown on Diagram 594 the I screw cannon off the cushion is best played by means of a half-ball contact, for it is much easier to ensure correct contact when using a half-ball stroke than when playing to take a ball thinner or fuller than half- haP. In oerta.iii variations, given last week, of the position shown on Diagram 594 a half- ball stroke cannot be used, as such a stroke would throw the first object ball on to the second one. Diagram 595 illustrates such a position. Here, as a half-ball stroke would cause the red to hit the white, a somewhat thinner than half-ball stroke must be employed DL-u R"\M 595.-A screw-cannon off the top cushion Red ball on the sp?ut Cue ball and object whit? both 2jm. from the red. All three balls in a straight line. Unless the red be taken quite thinly it will kiss the I object white for a cannon off the cushion, and ooneider- ably more screw must be used to compensate for the thinner than half-ball contact with the red. In this stroke some check side— left-hand- side in tne diaigra.m-may be advan- tageously used in order to cause the oue ball to rebound more squarely from the cushion than it would do as the result of a plain-ball screw. Whereas, however, the half- ball gorew cannon off the cushion illustl= on Diagram 594 is an easy enough stroke and quite within the compass of any mode- rate player when played in the manner I already described, the thinner than half-ball screw cannon to avoid the kiss, as illustrated on Diagram 595, is a difficult stroke, and quite beyond the ordinary player. An alter- I native stroke to this thinner than half-baL e,c-rew of the cushion is a cannon off the top cushion, hitting the cushion first, but such a stroke is also a difficult one owing to the nicety of judgment required as to what point I on the cushion to aim at. Ort,her alternative strokes are a steeplechase cannon, a masse cannon, or a pot, but all these strokes axe, extremely difficult. In the position shown on Ddas-ram 594 the pot is also an alternative I stroke to the cannon, but even this pot, whilst not as difficult as a pot with the balls situated aB shown on Diagram 595, is any thing but an easy stroke to judge. Diagram 596 illustrates a position which is typical of positions which often occur. The only stro'ke at all on is a cannon, but a ball- to-ball cannon is impossible by means of a medium-pace half-ball stroke even with extreme running side. A bal1-l1 cannon is, however, an easy enough stroke when played as a forcing stroke, and this is the way the ordinary player plays it. Such a stroke, however, sends the balls flying all over I the table, and the player who plays the cannon in this manner trusts to fortune for his next stroke. Instead of the cannon being played by means of a banging stroke it should be played off the top cushion, and not much more strength should be used than is necessary to cause the cue ball to reach the second object ball. The moderate player, I however, when playing this cannon off the top cushion generally plays it in the wrong way. The position illustrated on the dia- -gra,m is such that not only is it impossible to cannon direct from one ball on to the other by means of a medium-pace half-ball stroke, ibut dt is likewise impossible to get the cannon off the top cushion by means of a half-ball stroke without side. In fact, were the cannon to be attempted by the latter I stroke, -the cue ball's ilille of travel after its rebound from the top cushion would be quite wide of the red. The moderate player, recognising this quite easily, "aims for a thinnish contact with the first object ball in I' order to prevent the cue ball going round the second object ball, and also with the Diagram 596.—A cannon off the top cushion. A half-ball stroke with plenty of check side. Red ball on the spot. Object white 104 inches from the side cushion and 40 inches from the top cushion. Cue ball 17 inches from the eide cushion and 53 inches from the baulk cushion. I SaID-e end in view often (plays the stroke with some check side. As already explained, however, thinner than half-ball strokes played from a distance are always uncertain strokes owing to the difficulty that exists in taking the object ball M desired, and the use of check side further complicates I matters. In fact, should the cannon under discussion be played as a thinner than half- I ball stroke it is better to use no side and I rely 'upon correct contact with the object ball. The most reliable, and consequently the correct, way, however, of playing this cannon is by means of a medium-pace half- ball stroke with plenty of check eide. With the balls placed to the measurements given I under Diagram 596 a half-ball stro¥ will cause the cue-ball to strike the top cushion at a point which is practically right behind the red-tbe exact point of contact with the cushion will vary slightly according to whether the stroke is played with ivory balls or with bonzoline balls-and strong check side will cause the cue ball to rebound from the cushion quite squarely on to the red-- as shown by the continuous line on the diagram. Any fair player can be pretty certain of taking an object ball correctly when playing a half-ball stroke, whereas even really good players are often at fault when they have to use a thinner than half- bail stroke, consequently it is easy to under- stand why in the position shown on Diagram 596 the half-ball stroke with check side is much sounder than the thinner than half- ball stroke with or without check side. Of course, in strokes of the nature of the one under discussion, the amount of check side which must be used with a half-ball contact will not always be the same. but the necessary amount can always be gauged by calculating the point on the cushion upon which cue ball will impinge a6 the result of a half-ball stroke. This half-ball stroke with check side can often be just ae advan- tageously used for a cannon off the side cushion. Mr. Levi's articles appear every Saturday in the "Evening Express," No. 1 of this series appeared on October 3.

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