"Strike the Object-Ball Thickly"

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SOMETHING ABOUT CANNONS

Multi-Cushion Cannons

Angle and Strength

Control of After-Position

"Drop'' Cannons

Strike the Object-Ball Thickly

Fig. 18 is most instructive in this respect. It is a typical "drop" cannon played from hand. It should be played rather thicker than half-ball to make sure of taking the first object-ball well up the table to the vicinity of the billiard spot. That is what I want you to concentrate on, for if you cannon with this command of the first object ball, you must play at correct strength. If you complete your cannon to perfection, you will strike the red, the second object-ball, so that it leaves a red winner into the facing top pocket. Then you put the red down, leave position for a little cannon, and away you go on the top-of-the-table game. But you cannot rush along at this pace. Very likely you will cannon more or less imperfectly so far as "dropping" on the red is concerned. But if you have guided the white reasonably well, you will be unlucky if you do not get usable position of some kind, a cannon, more likely than not. The thing to be careful about in playing drop cannons is to strike the first object-ball thickly enough. Very often these shots are better played nearer three-quarter-ball than half-ball, as too thin a contact means leaving your ball between the other two with disastrous positional results. If you bear this in mind, and resolve to steer the one ball to the best of your ability, you will gradually reach some measure of certainty in cannoning on the second object-ball, but it is heartbreaking for a beginner to try to do this all at once.

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