"WHERE TO HIT A BILLIARD BALL"

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WHERE TO HIT A BILLIARD BALL

Position of Arms and Elbows

"Sighting" the Stroke - part 1

"Sighting" the Stroke - part 2

A Test of True Cueing

How to Put on "Side"

Use of Varying Strengths

Top and Screw

Value of One-Ball Practice

TO begin with, I want you to understand how much of the surface of a billiard ball you really can hit. This is a good deal less than is often supposed. If you look at Fig. 3, which depicts a ball of standard size, the black portion of the diagram shows as much of the ball as you can hit effectively.

That is quite enough for any stroke you are likely to want. If you can hit your ball fairly in its centre, that will do splendidly for a multitude of plain-ball strokes. If you hit it as far to the right or left as the black circle indicates, you will be able to impart enough right or left side for any stroke on the table.

The same is true vertically. All the top you want can be imparted by striking your ball at the top of the black circle, and you can get any amount of screw-back by striking your ball properly at the bottom of the circle. Remember this, the centre of your cue-tip will only strike the centre of the ball, or a point very near it. In every other case a sector of the cue-tip does the work. The small white sector on the right of the black circle makes this clear. It shows how the cue-tip would operate when imparting a maximum of right hand side, the portion which stands away from the black circle never touches the ball ; all the work is done by as much of the cue-tip as is merged in the black circle.

Figure 3.

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