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JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES MORE ABOUT JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES
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"MORE ABOUT CANNONS"
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AFTER your work with the red ball,
which you must persevere with even
if it is irksome to begin with, you may relax
for a while by turning temporarily to a few
shots of a more spectacular type. The first
of these will test two things-your power of
cue and the quality of the cushions of the
table on which you play the shot. Figure 29
shows the stroke. The cue-ball is 9 1/2 inches
from the side cushion, and a foot from the
baulk cushion. The first object-ball is
9 inches from the side cushion and a foot from
the cue-ball. The red is 7 inches from the
top cushion and 11 inches from the side
cushion. By playing to the right of the
object-ball, you can make a simple two cushion cannon via the side and top cushions.
But this is not the shot I want you to accomplish. I am asking you to do a fancy stroke
of sorts by making the cannon off no less than
seven cushions, as shown by the dotted line in the diagram. To do this, you must strike
the object-ball thin with check-side on your
own ball, which means striking your ball on
the left, and you must also strike it fairly high to give it all the forward rotation you
can. Let your cue drive clean through your
ball, and if your cue-power is free and good,
you will make this multi-cushion cannon.
As a shot to show to your friends it is rather
amusing-it looks as if you played for the cannon off two cushions and fluked it off
seven-so you had better "nominate it"
beforehand. If you take my advice, this
one stroke is the only "nomination billiards"
you will ever indulge in-the ordinary "nomination game" is a wearying and worrying
business far better left alone.
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