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BALL-TO-BALL CONTACTS

Full-Ball Contacts

The "Six Shot"

The Screw-Back "Six Shot"

Raising the Butt and the "Jab" Shot

The Effect of "Side"

Cue Line and Stroke Line

Ball "Turn" and its Effect

Only use Side when Necessary

Taking the diagrams in their numerical order, Fig. 7 shows what is known as a "full ball." This is made by striking the cue-ball so that the centre of that ball comes into contact with the centre of the object ball. It is an easy shot, and useful for training purposes in a manner I propose to demonstrate. Place the red ball on the centre-spot of the table. Put the cue-ball about a foot behind the red and dead in line with the centre of the middle pocket facing you. If you strike your ball clean in its centre and the red "full ball," you will pocket the red, and your ball will run on after it into the same pocket, or very nearly so. It all depends on the freedom of your cueing. If your cueing is in the least cramped, your ball, struck centrally, will scarcely run through at all, it will stop after rolling drowsily onwards for a few inches.

Mind, I do not say that you should strike your ball dead in its centre in order to make the six shot from the position now under discussion. Scoring the six points is not what I have in mind at the moment. What I want you to grasp is that if you can hit your ball in its centre, and run through after the red into the middle pocket, then you are swinging your cue with that smooth facility which you must acquire if you mean to play billiards. If you cannot do it, or even get anywhere near it, there is something radically wrong with your cueing. You must be flinching at your stroke. Your cue is not going through the ball as it should, and until you remedy this fault your billiards may get worse, but it will never get better.

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