"Baulk Line Play"

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Articles:

LOSING HAZARDS

Red Loser from Hand

Baulk Line Play

How to Practice

Making the Best of Bad Leaves

Cushion Rail as Auxiliary Bridge - part 1

Cushion Rail as Auxiliary Bridge - part 2

Sundry Variations

How to Impart "Swerve"

The Use of Side

Fine Ball-to-Ball Contacts

Very possibly, when you are practicing this shot, you will bring the red back too far, leaving it quite close to the baulk line, as shown in Fig. 20. Here the best shot is the fine loser played with sufficient strength to cut the red into position over the opposite middle pocket, as shown by the continuous line in my diagram. Strike your ball clean, avoid putting on any side at all costs, and do not be afraid to play a free and confident stroke which has enough movement in it to steer the red where you want it. If the red is even more close to the baulk line than is indicated in my diagram, play the same shot, but bring your ball far enough back into baulk to leave at least six inches between your ball and the red. Should the red stop so close to the baulk line that you have to look at it twice to make sure that it is out of baulk, then you should play for one of the baulk pockets. Your exact shot will depend on the precise position of the red. By taking advantage of the fact that you can play in baulk to strike any portion of a ball which lies out of baulk, it is often possible to place your ball very carefully on the baulk line and play a plain half-ball loser into a baulk pocket when the object-ball is barely out of baulk. When this cannot be done, bring your ball close to the object-ball and play a thinnish sharp shot into a baulk pocket. In each case you should play at the right strength to leave the object-ball in position for a middle pocket loser, which is not an easy thing to do when you have to play a fine shot for the baulk pocket. Of course, in advising these strokes I am assuming that the object-ball lies far enough towards the centre of the table to make them playable. If the object-ball stops too near the side cushion for these strokes, screw or side, perhaps both, will have to be called into requisition, and the stroke enters into an entirely different category.

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