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""Postman's Knock""
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| This is known as the "postman's knock" position because of the double kiss utilized every time the cannon is played. Charles Dawson used to play it very well, Willie Smith keeps it going to good purpose when he thinks he will, and Tom Newman is master of it, as he is of every other position at the spot-end. It looks the easiest thing in the world to "keep on doing it" when you see a first-rate professional playing it so cleverly that he may make six or eight cannons, with their accompanying red winners, without moving the white ball a fraction of an inch away from its position against the top cushion. But you try to do it and see what happens, even if you are reckoned "quite useful" among your billiard-playing friends. You may make the first cannon fairly well, but you are excessively likely to spoil the sequence as soon as you pot the red, most probably by leaving a cannon which cannot be played with the requisite double-kiss effect. Then you may be compelled to open the game, which I should advise you to do in the first place. If you play the cannon with the idea of leaving the red where you can pot it and leave the familiar half-ball loser off the spotted red, you will do much better than you will by trying for the "postman's knock" sequence of positional kiss effects, and I advise you to plan your break-building accordingly. | |||
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