"Wisdom in Choice of Strokes"

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ENTERPRISING BILLIARDS

When to Take Chances

Another Aspect

How to Tackle Double-Baulks

Wisdom in Choice of Strokes

An "Enterprising" Stroke

Billiard enterprise is not confined to the purposeful tackling of double-baulks. It is evidenced in other ways to greater profit. Figure 46 shows what I mean. The red ball is close to the middle pocket, the cue ball is in hand, and the red is so favorably placed that you can do almost what you please with it. You can go in-off it, or cut it into the middle pocket, and you can make the in-off in many ways. Usually, even among amateurs who ought to play better billiards, the red loser is made slowly with the idea of dribbling the red over the top pocket, thus leaving it somewhere in the vicinity of the cross in my diagram. This is a bad stroke, simply because a very much better one can be made if you are enterprising enough to play it. Instead of placing your ball on the end of the baulk-line, and crawling in-off to send the red ball slowly up towards the top pocket, you should spot your ball as shown in my diagram, and play fully enough on the red to follow through into the pocket, playing with freedom enough to bring the red into position off the side and top cushions. Here, yet again, it is a matter of letting the cue do the work. No side is required on the cue-ball. It is only necessary to hit that ball correctly a little above its centre, or even dead centrally if your cueing is good enough, and you can make this lucrative hazard with supreme ease. Do so, and then try the other way. Try each method six times in succession, and you will see for yourself how much better it is to play the shot in the manner I advise.

Very probably, if the white were near the billiard spot, it might pay you to be enterprising enough to cut the red in the pocket instead of going in-off it. If you do this, you should have ideal spot-end position, which you will utilize to get back to the open game by the shortest and most profitable route if you take my advice. The reason why you may find this winning hazard pay better than the loser is because the white lies near the billiard spot, where it is likely to be in the way if you attempt a break of red losers. There is not much in it, but we all like a change at times, and if you feel like putting the red down under the circumstances I have described, by all means do so. Incidentally, this is a favorite scoring position with Willie Smith. When he has a leave like that illustrated in Fig 46, and the white near the billiard spot, sometimes he will pot the red, sometimes he will go in-off it-I believe he follows the whim of the moment. He can well afford to do so, as either stroke leaves him a break building position he can handle supremely well.

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