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Billiards. 24.-CANN0NS OFF THE TOP CUSHION By RISO LEVI (Copyright). Diagram 591 illustrates a very difficult stroke that is sometimes played by good players. A cannon can be made off the top and side cushions, off the top cuihicn only, or-a., shown on the diagram- off the top and baiilii cushions. AVhether the cannon he played off the to,p cushion only, or otl" the to t) and baulk cushions, the contact with the object hall has to be a very thin one. Check side on the cue ball by altering 'the ang'e 01 rebound off the top cushion would sometimes eaable the cannon to be mtule wheu the contact with the object white has no been thin enough to admit of the cannon being made by a plain-ball stroke. The use of check side is. however, not advisable in tbi;. stroke owing to the great difficulty in imparting just the correct amount to the cue ball. The cup bail after ti-iking the top cushion has to travel prac- tically the length of the table, and conse- uneutly slight differences in the amount of .ide imported to the cue ?all may produce widely different re;ults, for whilst t,vodi??c, rent paths from the same point on the top cushion may not be far apart, say a foot or so from this cushion, the space betwecn them at the baulk end of the taole may be very considerable. When playing the cannon under discussion, off the top cushion only, it is is well to aim for a contact even thinner than rppea rs to be necessary, for in the first place most players when failing at a long- distance thin stroke more often fail through not taking the object ball quite as thinly as they intended than through taking it, too thinlv, and secondly, because should the object ball be taken t.oo thinly to admit of the cannon being made off the top •cushion only, there is always the possi- bility of its being made off the baulk cushion. With the haUs situated as shown on Diagram 591, if as the result of a thin stroke played without side. and without very nluch pace-high pace affects the angle of reflection, especially with very resilient Diagram 591.—A cannon eff the top cushion. A thin stroke wi-. Iiout sid<\ Object w'jitp 15 inches from tile side rn.-iiion and 36 inches from tho top cushion. Hed ball J2 inches from the baulk million and 19 inches froin the e' side cushion. Tbo cue ball shoiud !>•> spotted » little to the right of the centre of the D line. cushions—the cue ball misses the red by about two or three inches as it passes it on the in-ide—that is to the left, as the player s-tand." facing the top cushion—the cannon will be made off lie baulk cushion, as indicated by the continous line on the dia- gram. If, however, the cue ball on its way down the table passes the red on the outside, the cannon o-aniiot be made except off the side and baulk cushions, and only by the cue ball travelling very wide indeed of the lino of travel played for, can any contact with the side cushion take place at all previous to the cue ball reaching the baulk cushion. Diagram 592 illustrates another very difficult cannon that is typical of strokes sometimes played by good players. The can- non may be made off the top and side cushions or--as indicated by the continuous line on the diagrom--off the top, side, and Diagram 5e2.-A difficult cannon from the D played off the tcp and side cushions. Object white 6 inches from the side cushion and 35 inches from the top cushion. Rpd ball 8 inches from the baulk cushion and on the central line of the, table. The cue ball should be spotted at or near the end of the D line. baulk cushions. The stroke should be played with plenty of check side^ 1-eft-hand side in the diagra,m. In this sttroke left-hand side though check side off the top cushion—when the cue ball strikes the cushion at the angle shown on the diagram—becomes running side off the side and baulk cushions. What makes the stroke so dilfiomt is gauging the amount of side required. The cannon can be made from different placings of the cue ball amd by different kinds of contact, and the position in the D from which the stroke is played, in conjunction with the degree of fulness or otherwise of the contact with the object ball determine the amount of side which is necessary for a successful stroke. '-NI r -Tevi's articles appear every Saturday in the Evening Express." No. 1 of this series appeared on October 3.

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