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"Screw and Fine Contacts"
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Figure 52 also provides a capital illustration
of the fact that screw always takes effect no
matter what the ball-to-ball contact may be.
Many ordinary cue men seldom think about
using screw unless they wish to screw straight
back or very nearly so. This is bad billiards.
I do not think you need worry a great deal
about the subtle effects of screw when you
play a slow shot
fine on the object ball. This is a
refinement which
needs a deal of
mastering, and is
seldom in request
except in spot-end
play. It will pay
you much better to
acquire a thorough
knowledge of the
effect of screw
at contacts from
half-ball to full ball than it will to go too far in the other direction,
although I advise you to practice screw effects which are decidedly finer than
half-ball. These are very useful at times for
positional purposes, as you will discover for
yourself when you begin to make breaks of
fifty or so fairly often. I prefer to leave it
at this instead of giving you diagrams and
playing instructions relating to positional
effects obtainable by screw acting in conjunction with fine ball-to-ball contacts. Unless
you are a fairly useful player, detailed instruction on the matter will set you working
at something which is rather beyond your
cuemanship ; and if you are able to benefit
by it you will know when to use it with
advantage. It will be quite enough for your
purpose and mine if you study the effect of
screw at these contacts finer than half-ball,
and use the knowledge thus gained for break building purposes as your game improves.
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