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JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES MORE ABOUT JENNIES AND OTHER SIDE STROKES
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"Angle Differences with Ivory and Composition Balls - part 1"
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Meanwhile, I will do what I can to help
those who play with composition balls. Fig. 1
is drawn for this purpose. It shows the
usual half-ball loser played from hand off
the red on the centre-spot. To make the top
pocket with a normal set of ivories, you should
place your ball 71/2 inches from the centre spot of the "D" in the direction of the pocket you
wish to score. At least, this is the general
way of teaching it, and as it will serve my
present purpose, I do not propose to question
it. Very well, if you place your ball 71/2 inches
to the right of the centre-spot of the "D," a
true half-ball will make the top pocket as
shown in Fig. 1, if you are using ivory balls.
But with composition balls, I think you want
to place your ball an inch and a half further
to the right to
make the long
loser into the top
pocket. To show
what this means
even more clearly,
Fig. 2 shows the
difference in
position, illustrated by balls drawn
standard size, on
the baulk line.
The plain ball
represents the
ivory, the black
ball shows how
much "further
over" the composition ball has
to be placed to obtain the same effect when playing for the
top pocket.
Figure 1, Figure 2. |
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