"The Cue Must go Through the Ball"

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The Cue Must go Through the Ball

Screw and Fine Contacts

What happens with all these run-throughs off a ball tight against a cushion is that the thick ball-to-ball contact, together with the extra resistance offered by the object-ball touching the cushion, brings the cue ball to a momentary stop when the object-ball is struck. Then your attempt to score will fizzle out unless your ball has within itself the requisite rotation to give it fresh impetus m the required direction, and the spin necessary to make it stick to the cushion and "buzz into the pocket," so to speak. And I cannot insist with too much emphasis that this all-important fresh impetus can only come from that free cue delivery you may think I am saying too much about. You would not think so if you were present when I am giving a lesson to a pupil, and heard the many, many times I keep pulling him up to tell him that he must let his cue "go through the ball." By way of a complete change, Fig. 52 shows a very useful screw shot. The cue ball is on the centre-spot of the baulk-line, the red is 19 inches from the side cushion and 2 inches nearer baulk than a line taken straight across the table through the centre-spot. If you put screw on your ball, as much as you can, you will score the middle pocket quite easily if you make a half-ball contact with the red. You must play hard enough to bring the red in and out of baulk as shown in my diagram, when you will always leave good position. This is the gist of the matter, is the position. By placing your ball close to the right-hand spot of the baulk-line, and playing plain-ball with more strength than judgment at the red, it is admittedly easier to get in-off than it is by the screw shot I advise. But where will you leave the red? I cannot say, and a very few shots will convince you that you can never be sure where the red will stop if you play the wrong shot because it is a little easier than the screw-loser.

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