"Cushion Rail as Auxiliary Bridge - part 1"

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Articles:

LOSING HAZARDS

Red Loser from Hand

Baulk Line Play

How to Practice

Making the Best of Bad Leaves

Cushion Rail as Auxiliary Bridge - part 1

Cushion Rail as Auxiliary Bridge - part 2

Sundry Variations

How to Impart "Swerve"

The Use of Side

Fine Ball-to-Ball Contacts

When playing the losers now under discussion, do not be afraid of sliding your cue over the cushion rail when your ball is either touching the cushion, or so nearly so that you cannot make your usual bridge on the bed of the table. Whenever your ball is left in this way, you should rest your cue as flat as you can on the cushion rail, and arrange your bridge-hand to steady the cue rather than support it. As an experiment, it is not at all a bad idea to try a shot or two with one hand, merely to acquire the knack of relying on the cushion rail when your ball is near it. This will show you how little help the cue really requires from your bridge-hand under the circumstances. The fingers and thumb of your bridge-hand merely provide a groove through which your cue moves while the cushion rail supports it. You cannot go wrong if you remember to keep your cue as flat on the cushion rail as you can, and adjust your bridge hand to prevent your cue from swaying.

The foregoing hints will be most useful when you tackle the shot shown in Fig. 23. This is a half-ball losing hazard played off the spotted red. As shown in the diagram, the cue-ball is placed against the top cushion just clear of the pocket jaw. By manipulating your cue in the manner dealt with in my preceding paragraph, and by playing a plain half-ball on the red, you will make the loser into the facing top pocket. The stroke is one you ought never to miss, you must not miss it if you mean to become anything of a player.

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