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I BILLIARDS. i I 18.-CANNONS IN BAULK. I By RtSO LEVI (Copyright). j>i^rra-m 579 shows a locatSofl of the object ballswhitili, is with slight varialtions of con- stanj occurrence. This position may appeaff to of a very similar iiatu-re to the one iUIlW tratil on Diagram 57&, but it differs from it ill DIAGRAM 579.-An attempted cannon off the too cushion played as. a half-ball stroke with side. The eue ball and the object White kiss at the spot marked by the x, and the kiss prevents the cannon being made. Red on the spot. Object white 2iin. from the side cushion and 43jin. from the top cushion. Cue ball extreme end of the D. The oor- rect way of playing the cannon is shown on Diagram 58. one exceedingly important detail. In the position shown on Diagram 578 the easiest Mtl of playing a cannon off the white is by means of a half-ball stroke with running side. but in the position shown on Diagram 579, if the cannon is attempted by means of a rndDlg-side half-ball stroke, a kiss will pro- bibly take pliice between the cue ball end tie object white somewhere between the top cushion and the red balL Even when the Position is such that the kiss is just avoided by a true half-ball stroke it-miay omur if the Oontaot with the object white is a shade fuller than half-ball and in playing half-ball strokes--esP,BciaAly when the ball is a long way from the first object boll—the contact will very seldom indeed be exactly half-ball. no matter how good the player may be. On Diagram 579 the X indicates one spot where the kiss may take place, but often the kiea may take place still nearer the red. Some- times the cue ball will be knocked away by the object white when it has tra-velled to within less than en inch of the red and the kiss may even take place at practically the exact moment that the cannon is made Most players when playing a canmoi with the balls in a position at all ?tmlat to the one illustrated on Diagram 5Zt oanakkw that they have had very ham lines when a kiss takes plaoo ami prevents the cannon being made just as the 1 cue ball was travelling to the red. If, how I erer. a player invitee & kiss by playing a J stroke in a way which is likely to bring ■ about a kiss, he cannot fairly claim that he 1 has had bad luck when he gets what he hw really, though unknowingly, asked for. Diagram 580 shows the object balls in exactly the same position as on Diagram 579, and also illustrates the correct way of j playing the cannon in order to preclude all possibility of a kiss taking place between DIAGRAM 580.—A cannon in:r top cushion by means of an appreciably thinner than hall-Baii stroke with side. The thinner than hatf-b?H.?n- tact; prevents the object b?t from crossing, the table behind the red, and thus prevents thuw 4ies shown on Diagram 579. Position of the bslis exactly the same as on Diagram 579. the cue ball and the object white. Instead of the object white being taken half-ball the contact must be considerably thinner than half-ball, and the stroke must be played with more side to compensate for the thinner contact. The thinner contact will cause the object white to travel across the table below the red-ms indicated by the in- tersected line—instead of above the red as on Diagram 579, and consequently there is nothing to interfere with the cue ball reach- ing the red after it leaves the top cushion. This thinner-than-half-ball oannon with run. ning side is not an easy stroke, as the con- tact and the amount of side require well judging. The amount of side that is sufficient for a contact not much thinner than half-hat* will not be sufficient for a contact tbato is only about quarter ball, and vice versa, the amount of side that is coirecrt with a quarter-ball contact will be too much with a. contact half-way between quarter ball and half-ball. The beet way of playing tpiS cannon is by means of a quarter-ball con- tact and plenty of side. Drag should be used, as this will prevent the side pulling the cue ball out of the line of aim, besides which good after-position is more likely to result when this cannon is played in this manner than when no drag is used. Mr: Levi's articles appear every, Saturday in the Fvoning Express." No. 1 of this aeries appeared 011 october 3. RUMMER HOTEL, DUKE-STREET, CARDIFF. First-class Billiard labl*. Annual Protessionmw Tournament Every Evening. Play will commence e4 7.30 p.m. Heats, 500 up. First Prize valkie 912, Seoond Prize value C6, Third Prize value LS.-G. MatthtffS, Proprietor. e174

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