"A Scientific "Potting Guide""

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WINNING HAZARDS

How to Pot a Ball

A Scientific "Potting Guide"

Ordinary Chalk is often Injurious to the Cloth

Never Hurry, but Don't Waste Time

For sheer scientific accuracy, however, Fig. 28 shows the best "potting guide" I know. The size of the balls is greatly exaggerated to make the idea clear. You begin by making a line through the object-ball to the centre of the pocket you are playing for. Then you draw another line parallel to the first and carry it through the cue-ball. This will give you "Point (1)" on the cue-ball and "Point (2)" on the object-ball, these points being exactly where the parallel lines fall on the two balls as shown in my diagram. If you make "Point (1)" strike "Point (2)" any winning hazard on the table must be made. These two points give you the correct line for ball-to-ball contact, but your line of aim and the line of your cue will be through the centre of your ball, as shown by the dotted line in my diagram.

Potting a ball comes natural to a few lucky ones. The others have to make the best possible use of one of the guides I have described. I cannot foretell which of these guides will be best for you, as individual peculiarities count for so much in this respect. In a billiard sense, it is a case of "One man's meat is another man's poison," or the next thing to it, and I can only advise you to experiment until you discover which guide is most helpful to you and to rely upon it accordingly. But the sooner you can do without any such assistance the better it will be for your billiards. These guides to potting are only intended to carry the novice through his preliminary difficulties, or to help the more practiced exponent whose potting is very weak.

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