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"Multi-Cushion Cannons"

On the other hand, if you play the cannon as shown, you should bring the first object ball across the table and back again, as indicated by the continuous line in my diagram, and leave the balls nicely together for break making. Use right-hand side and strike your ball rather high, but do not play with all the force you can put into your cueing. If the cushions on your table are fit to play on, a smart swing of the cue, with plenty of side, will send your ball spinning round the table as prettily as you please. Incidentally, if you make the cannon via the baulk cushion as well as the other three, you can call it a good shot-so you can if your ball also happens just to graze the side cushion before the cannon is completed. Cannons of this type are often wanted, and are playable if you move the first object-ball until it is almost on the baulk line and nearly touching the side cushion. They are the game when the "short jenny" is either impossible or too risky, and as the ball-to-ball contact varies as you move the first object-ball, I propose to let you work this out for yourself. It will be excellent training for you in the fine art of judging how to hit an object-ball to gain a desired series of angles off a number of cushions. Two or three experimental shots will give you the general idea, after which you can work away on your own account and learn much of real value if you play steadily and think of what you are doing.