Show I I L a BY 1 L IE TITLES CHA J or- or orTHE THE r i M H 0 I i i i I M I KM I 0 M 1 I- I ti t- t i j- j GENERAL PRINCIPLES i 1 T OF oP POSITION PLAY 44 4 4 I 1 1 Keep I-Keep Keep the tho balls in the short i I 4 table tabo tabe 2 Give 2 Give short drives preference 4 1 O r ov long I f t S 3 oid Avoid driving both balls baUs 5 T t Dont Don't Don't Dont drive until you have to f 5 Land S-Land Land dead on the tho carom v vi i- i ball f 1 6 Keep G-Keep Keep both object balls ahead ahead I of v It f 4 you t T. t t Lu LO 0 0 0 t-t- t After giving attention today to two more moro frequent positions where the principle prism prism- ciple of carry carr the tho first object ball along with you applies the reader leader will have covered enough diagrams Illustrating simpie simpie simple sim sim- pie first principles He lie must remember her ber too that what we are arc considering here hero Is not so much the shot as the principle Involved in It And he will find the principle bobbing up all over the taI ta ta- ta ble I I wish to complete this series with will something the tIme reader If he has practiced these shots should now be well wll ready for the e tall rail l nurse This 1 is impOrtant w ti I TJ not oot so err rr much f for Itself lf as in the larger cities at least the tIme are playing I I IP f P I 55 I H z zm z's s m mI I S I I vL v L- L more balk line than straight rail as asfor asfor asor for or the fact that it is the time best possible schooling for the balk line nurse and Indeed other position plays In countless number all over the table First see cut No 29 diagram A. A If hit thin bin the object ball remains behind if hit full it curves along with the cue baland ball bal balland and all three gather In the corn corner r. r diagram 13 Generally G the tyro tro shoots too hard or hits the object ball too thin If Ir hit fairly full and no not too hard it will gather with the other two balls Now for th the rail tail nurse First In cu cut No 30 see s1 Illustrated the normal rail ral position and a series of theoretically perfect perfect per per- feet shots Ball 2 on the outside travel along aling a straight line four and I t S iS i j i i q J I 0 if f. f rI r 4 I 1 I. I Si r H LI I cur 30 three quartet Inches from the rail BalNo Ball Bal No 1 I on the time Inside zigzags to and from fron the th rail and the time two stop in the original original nal nai position each ach time So much for foi theory In practice however how how- ever even the time best expert epert makes mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes of execution He hits No 1 too hard or too full or too easy or too thin that and the other Sometimes he ise forces ball No 2 outside of the inch five-inch line and it must be flocked back or the nurse is lost and so It goes The rail nurse therefore as played is a series of mistakes mistakes mistakes mis mis- takes and succeeding shots to correct them In the thc perfect shot very little English English- generally none none none-Is Is used and the cue balIs ballIs bailis ball bal Is hit center or a a. trifle below In the series of mistakes however English of all kinds right left top draw and masse Is used The mistakes may be roughly divided into two classes first classes first those In which tile the balls are both Inside the Inch five-Inch line Ine second those In which one or both get outside the Inch five-Inch line In the next article we will take te up the positions arising from the most frequent errors with both balls left inside the line Ine In making the normal shot I must not forget to call particular attention to this Ball No 1 must not be left on the time cushion cushon cush- cush Ion on but must Join No 2 In doing so note however note this well well No 1 must not be hit so hard as to kiss No 2 That would force No 2 outside the Inch five-Inch line Une Also In making the carom the cue ball bail must land on the tIme center of No 2 or a shade to the right of center The Tha beginners beginner's beginners begin begin- ners ner's tendency Is to land on No 2 too much to the left of its center forcing No 2 outside the inch five-inch line In making the perfect or normal rail shot the No 2 I ball moves from two and anda a half to three Inches No 10 1 ball of course by reason of Its angular course a little further Therefore It must get et a trifle rifle more Impetus You land dead on No 10 o. o 2 but not dead enough to freeze To be continued |