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"CONCERNING PLAYING CONDITIONS"
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IT is no use trying to play billiards-"on
a cloth untrue, with a twisted cue, and
elliptical billiard balls," as W. S. Gilbert has
it. Billiards is essentially a game of precision, and to play it at all well you must
have the right implements to play with. A
cue of your own is not a luxury, it is as much
a necessity as his own clubs are to a golfer.
Of late years, Willie Smith has set the fashion for a heavy cue tipped with a brass ferrule. His cue weighs 18 oz. John Roberts said: "As regards the weight of a cue, I think 15 oz. to 16 oz. is heavy enough for anyone. The length of a cue should be from 4 feet 8 inches to 4 feet 9 inches." Tom Newman uses a 17-oz. cue measuring 4 feet 10 inches in length, and as Smith's is heavier still, it is evident that the best of modern billiardists favor distinctly heavier cues than were used by the old past master of the game. |
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