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"Sighting"

When your cue-tip is stationary, it may or may not afford excellent guide to your actual point of aim. For instance, if I were aiming to play a plain half-ball stroke, my cue-tip, then identical in direction with the line of the stroke, would point straight through the centre of my ball to the point marked by a cross on the left-hand ball shown in Fig. 80. But if I were playing a half-ball with strong "check" side, my cue-line would be directed towards the cross shown on the centre ball in the diagram. This is because, although the ball-to-ball contact is the same as in the first case, the side I am using compels me to move my cue over to the right. The same general reason would compel me to move my cue so far to the left, if I were using "running" side, that its line would then be clear away from the object-ball, as shown near the right-hand ball in my diagram, where the dotted line terminating in a cross indicates the cue-line in this instance.