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JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES MORE ABOUT JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES
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"Balls, Ivory and Composition"
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As regards balls, there is no getting away
from the fact that ivory balls are the only
kind officially recognized for the championships, which makes them the standard ball
for billiards. For this reason, all the strokes
in my book have been played with ivory balls
of equal size and weight. At the same time,
I fully realize that composition balls are used
to a much greater extent than the ivories are,
and I think the day is not far distant when
some make of composition ball will demand
official recognition. There is nothing else for
it, as far as I can see. Ivory balls really
worth playing with are an expensive luxury, and a set of ivories fit for first-class play is worth a fancy price. The fact of the matter is that ivory suitable for billiard ball manufacture must be getting more and more scarce every year, while the demand is at least as great as ever. A time must come, and I think it will arrive sooner than many people think, when the law of supply and demand will bring composition balls on the table for championship billiards. The question is one for the Billiards Association and Control Council, and I should like to hint that the makers of composition balls would assist their own interests if they conducted exhaustive experiments to produce a ball which comes off at as near the ivory angle as possible, and is less apt to pick up dirt than composition balls usually are. |
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