PLATE LXII.
INTRICATE CAROM.
Illustrating a stroke which appears at first sight to be a “bank,” but, from position of balls, a cushion hit before a ball will fail to effect carom.
Cue-ball ⅝ right, ⅝ below, object-ball ⅛ left; stroke, “medium.” As the object-ball lies from the cushion—a space ⅛ of a ball, less than the width of a 2⅜ ball—it is impossible for the cue-ball to pass behind it, as it would have to do in order to contact with the cushion first; as it is, the contact with cushion and object-ball is at the same instant. The cue-ball really takes two cushions, but it is so instantaneous as to be imperceptible.
PLATE LXIII.
ACUTE AND “SPREAD”-DRAW.
Illustrating effective gathering strokes from a “wide spread” and direct draw.
Diagram 1.—Cue-ball ⅝ below, object-ball ⅞ left; stroke, ½ in excess of “medium.” Cue-ball effects carom on ball 2. Object-ball cushions at a, b, resting at c.
Diagram 2.—Cue-ball ⅝ below, object-ball 31
32 right; stroke, “ordinary.” Cue-ball, by an acute draw, effects carom on ball 2. Object-ball cushions at d, g, e, resting at f.
Positions similar to Diagram 1 frequently occur during play, consequently the pupil should know the gathering angle to cushions a, b, for any object-ball which may rest at any part of the table within space between the spot at h and side cushion at ball 1; the cue-ball at all times played from behind the object-ball as shown.