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Billiards. 41.-CANNONS OFF THE SIDE CUSHION By RISO LEVI (Copyright). Diagram 624 illustrates another position with one of the object balls out of baulk and the other in baulk, and is typical of positions that not infrequently have to be faced when playing from the D. The cannon off the side cushion shown on this diagram necessitates a very thin contact with the object white when DIAGRAM 624.-A, very thin cannon off the side cushion played without side. Object white 14 inch from the side cushion and 3% inches from the baulk cushion. Red ball 23 inches from the baulk cushion and on the central line of the table. a plain-ball stroke is used, but, although the contact has not to be as thin when check side is used, the use of side makes the stroke far more difficult than the very thin plain- ball stroke. The thin plain-ball stroke is difficult, not because the object ball ha.s to be taken very thinly, but because the degree of thinness has to be aocurately gauged—thin as the contact has to be it can easily be too thin. Wlhen a stroke of this nature—with the second object ball a long way from the cusiiion which the cue ball has to strike—Is played with check side in combination with a thin contact the amount of side imparted to the cue ball has to be very nicely regulated to the contact, and this consequently makes the stroke far more difficult than when only the conta-et itself nas to be gauged, as is the case with the thin plain-ball stroke. Diagram 625 illurtrajtes a cannon often played by good players. To the ordinary player the position would appear a very nasty one, bnjt with the balls to the measurements given iinaer the diagram the caiinon can be made by means of a half-bail stroke, pro- vided that the oue ball is struck with plenty of running side The effect -of strong side i's not very greatly in evidence when tht- cue ball strikes the side cushion owiing to its ta--king this cushion at a ."ery acute angle, f DIAGRAM 625.—A three-cushion cannon. Object whito lin. from the side cushion and 46in. from the baulk cushion. Red Dili 3in. from the side cushion and 55in. from the top cushion- Cue ball 2 or 3in. from the end Of the D. a but when the top cushion is struck the great I difference of tho. ane,-le of rebound from the ace-la of incidence which results from the cue ball taking- this cushion squarely, forcibly demonstrates the effect of the side imparted to tdi., cue bail. When the second object ball is a sliort distance from the cushion a. cer- tain amount of latitude exists as to the amount -if side wmch mm,4t be imparted to the cue ball. This is, of course, because the cue ball may-within certain I imits-trayel from the top cushion by different lines with- out the cannon being missed. When this particular kind of cannon -can be got by means of a half-ball stroke with running side it is never a. very difficult stroke, though, of course, the a.mount of side which must be imparted to the cue bail' may have to be very nicely judged. Mr. Levi's articles appear every Saturday iL. the Evening Express." Xo I of this series appeared on October >

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