"A Good Single-Baulk"

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SINGLE AND DOUBLE-BAULKS

A Good Single-Baulk

Double-Baulks

A Useful Stroke

Thick Contact and Free Cueing

A Rule to Remember

Other Safety Strokes

Use Safety Play with Discretion

For preference, you should always play to leave the red in and the white out when leaving a single-baulk-but be careful to leave the white safe-this elementary precaution is overlooked occasionally, even by players who ought to know better. Figure 41 shows a useful single-baulk. The red is on the spot, the cue-ball is in hand. By striking your ball low and rather dead, and the red about three-quarter thick, you can double the colored ball back into baulk, leaving it where you can play at it with advantage, as shown in my diagram. This leave compels your opponent to go out for a score, most probably a cannon off the white via two cushions, a very uncertain shot, much more likely to leave something for you than to score for him.

By moving your ball to the centre-spot of the baulk-line, you can leave a double-baulk from the position in Fig. 41, if you play a decided half-ball on the red with a little running side on your own ball, which should be struck freely above its centre. This, however, is anything but an easy shot. The correct strength and ball-to-ball contact need a deal of gauging, and I commend the single baulk to you as much safer. Even if you get the double-baulk, you are as likely as not to leave the balls stone safe in baulk, which enables your opponent to give a miss, and leave you to it with his compliments. Very probably, he will be able to give his miss in such a manner that nothing is left for you, while he has a "sitter" unless you disturb the balls. It is not clever to leave a double baulk which clears the way for a maneuver of this sort-a single-baulk which leaves the red "easy" for a baulk-pocket and the white reasonably safe out of baulk is much to be preferred.

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