"Nursery Cannons"

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Articles:

To Do or Not to Do

Nursery Cannons

Recognize Your Limitations

Alternative Strokes

An Open Shot with a Good Sequence

Alternative Leaves

Lessons to be Learned

Figure 35 shows a lovely close-cannon position. Tom Newman, Claude Falkiner, Tom Reece, or Harry Stevenson could tap the balls along the top cushion until the warning voice of the marker told them that twenty consecutive ball-to-ball cannons had been played, and that a cushion must be utilized before twenty-five cannons are totaled. In fact, from the ideal position shown in my diagram, almost any professional could make a respectable run of close cannons, and there are a fair number of amateurs who could help themselves to several consecutive cannons before losing position. But I have never seen an amateur who can play to leave nursery cannon position with any approach to certainty. Newman and Falkiner are the greatest adepts at this now playing, with Tom Reece not so far behind them.

Consequently, from your point of view, you cannot expect to get nursery cannon position unless the balls run luckily for you. And when they do favor you, if you want to "nurse them," you need exceptional touch, and a lot of time in which to practice close cannons only. Then you might acquire the knack of keeping the two object-balls always in front of your cue, working prettily along lines indicated by the dots in my diagram. But is it worth your while to trouble about this? I very much doubt it, the more so as the Championship has been won before now by a player who did not make a single run of nursery cannons while winning his title. If you have a table of your own and are very keen on close cannon play, you might indulge your fancy without doing much harm, but even under these conditions it is long odds that you will make bigger breaks and more of them by sticking to the open game.

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