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Billiards. I 36.-CANNONS OFF THE TOP CUSHION I By RiSO LIVI (Copyrtfftit). Diagram 615 shows a position which is typical of others which occur with tolerable frequency. The red is too high up the table for a screw into the centre pocket and too far away from the si cushion for a jenny into the top pocket, and thus the only stroke to play is a cannon off the white The cannon may be made off the left side of the white and the top cushion, or-as illustrated on the dia.ram--off the right side of the white and the side and top cushions. With the object balls to the measurements given under the diagram if the cue ball is spotted DIAGR,H{ dl&-A canBon off tine i& and top b  a runuias-side half-ball stroke, cu?Mo£ ns l 4fk fzom the 3ide cushion and 561n, Irom th S cushion ohi^t Wtaut« llln" ^om the s*k- cashiou ..00 2"in. from the top cushion. The cue ban should bTsswporttttieid i aa? t, or new the rtght end of the D line. at the end of tne p tiDe a cannon off the aide and top coehiooe oan be made by mean* of a half-ball stroke played with a moderate amount of running side. As the one ball can cannon "'r-t ? ? the red. or off the side t ?? thee ? ? certain amount of la?tade  direction .f the ooe ball's 1? a rebound from the top cushion without the cannon being mieaed. In addition to this the possibility always enste of the 000 ball enter- ing the ccntoe pocket when it passes the red on the outside but only misses the cannon by veTj little. Such a result, when it hap- pens, ? haxwy be caj?d a au?e. or S I<-?t cannot be momded in the same cate- gory ae ordinary flukes. Very often a good P?yer will play a. certain stroke because be kaow,s that if he faw in getti? what hhe f played for ? '?y ? sMMthms else whiah he .Moognjaee is aj? on. With the objoot kalis in the position shown on Diagram 61o no possibility exists of the cue ball entering the centre pocket when the cannon is played off the top cushion only, instead of off the side and top cushions. This is, of course, because the oentre pocket is masked by the red ball when viewed from the point on the top cushion which is struck by the baJl when the cannon is played off this cushion only. and even when the entrance to the pocket is not covered, the pocket is much more blind to a ball travel- ling down the table fr6m a point on the top cushion a long way from the corner pooket, than it is to a ball which rebounds from a point on the top cushion close to this pocket. As already stated, the cannon shown on Diagram 615 is a half-ball stroke with rmming side. bat it can also be made off the side and top cushions from the same spottiug of the cue ball by means of quite a thiu stmke played with r?mn? side. This Latter method of playing the ca?Dcn is n<? h,D-, a reliable one owing to the difBoaJty of taking the object ball correctly when play- ing E, thin stroke. With the object white in the position shown on Dia- gram 615, but with the red ball a good deal higher up than on this diagram, a cannon off the side and top cushions is atill quite a possible stroke. The oorreot setting of the one ball for such a, strok:3 would, however, be at. or not far distant from the left end ? the ?' ? v*rying the spatting in the ? D ? the cue bnjl, the result of an a.pproxiiu-Uoly half-stroke played with run- mns side, will strike the top cushion—and, consequently, also the far side cushion-at If* Points, thus with the red as near to the cushion, a.6 shown on Diagram 615. but at varying distances higher up the table np to at least a ooupVe of feet above the oentre pocket this cannon off the side and 3 is alwa,YB qlite a possible stroke. The Poortion r-f the objoot white ma.y also be varied a good deal without rendering the cannon shown on Diagram 61r a modifi- cation of this oannon—any more difficult. Mr. L'evi's articles appear every Saturday 1n tmhe e K. veiling; Erprcss." No. 1 of thissettes appeared on Octor 3.

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