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"A Useful Stroke"

Figure 43 shows a class of double-baulk you cannot know too much about. It frequently happens that the white is lost and the red left as in my diagram. If you then give a miss in baulk, as you may feel inclined to do because the cue-ball is in hand, the position of the red offers your adversary a good chance of an all-round cannon. If he elects to give a miss instead of trying for the cannon, he ought to be able to leave you something you will be sorry to see, as you must hit a ball in reply to bis miss following yours. To avoid all this, you play for the double baulk by placing your ball so that you run through the red nearly full and hard enough to bring your ball back into baulk. If you do this, simply trying to bring your ball back as shown in my diagram, you can leave the red to take care of itself, it will find its way into baulk for a certainty.