PLATE XLVI.
SERIAL CAROMS, ALSO TWIST AND “KISS” CUSHION FOLLOW.
Illustration of a series of caroms effected with cue and object-ball in one given position, also a peculiar “kiss” carom with balls in a line.
Diagram 1.—Cue-ball ⅝ left, ¼ above, object-ball 15
16 right; driving it to cushion at a, b, a little beyond which it contacts with carom-ball forcing it to point d, where the cue-ball meets it and effects carom. Stroke, ½ in excess of “slow.” Cue-ball cushions at c with an excessive spinning twist.
Diagram 2.—To carom on balls 1 and 2: cue-ball ⅜ right, ⅛ below, object-ball ½ left; stroke, ½ of “slow.” Cue-ball cushions at a, effecting carom on ball 2. Object-ball cushions at b, c, resting at d.
To carom on ball 3.—Cue-ball ½ right, ⅛ below, object ball ½ left; stroke, ½ less than “slow.” Cue-ball cushions at a, and object-ball cushions at b, c, stopping at d.
To carom on ball 4.—Cue-ball ¼ left, ¼ below, object-ball ½ left; stroke, ½ in excess of “ordinary.”
To carom on ball 5.—Cue-ball ½ left, ¼ below, object-ball ½ left; stroke, “slow.”
To carom on ball 6.—Cue-ball ½ below, ½ left, object-ball ½ left; stroke, “ordinary.” Cue-ball cushions at a, e, b, g.
Again on ball 6.—Cue-ball ¼ above, ⅛ right, object-ball ¼ right; stroke, “ordinary.” Cue-ball cushions at e, effecting carom by one cushion on ball 6.