"How to Tackle Double-Baulks"

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The all-round cannon shown in Fig. 45 illustrates a method of tackling double baulks which can be worked out to cover the whole of baulk. This is done by changing the position of the cue-ball and varying the spot on the first cushion you play at. If you experiment in this manner, moving your ball by degrees until the centre spot is reached, you will learn a useful lesson about the angles of the tables so far as they concern the mastering of double-baulks. But however much you learn, you cannot hope to reduce these "all-rounders" to an exact proposition. The most exact method of tackling a ball or balls in baulk is direct off the top cushion when the Position gives you a chance of so doing. This is always the case when the red is over a baulk pocket. Then, by placing your ball on the spot nearest to the red, and playing off the top cushion without an atom of side on your ball, you should pot the red every time in the baulk pocket. By working on this principle as far as you can, you will rob many a baulk of its terrors. Alternatively, you may do so by playing just clear of the baulk-line with side on your ball to bring it back into baulk. When you do this, it is a mistake to attempt to put varying amounts of side on your ball with the idea of varying its direction as it returns into baulk. This is best accomplished by putting the same amount of side on your ball every time, and varying the point on the side cushion you play at in order to take your ball to any desired place in baulk. In this way, with a little practice, you ought to be sure of at least smashing up a good leave your adversary has planned for himself, and that is something well worth doing. Last of all, in point of general reliability, I place the "all round" method of tackling double-baulks. It is spectacular, very effective when it succeeds, and quite good billiards as far as it goes. But I prefer one of the simpler shots played off a single cushion, and advise you to display a similar preference whenever the leave permits it.

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