Plate XXX. — Slowing Cue-Ball Doubling Object-Ball
Illustrating a stroke that is of difficult accomplishment but very effective.
Cue-ball ¼ below, object-ball 15
16 left; stroke, “hard.” Object-ball cushions at a, b, c, d, and rests beyond d. The object-ball is struck nearly “dead” full to cross the table, as the lines indicate; the cue-ball is “slowed” through the ¼ below delivery, effecting carom on ball 2. This stroke requires much practice, as the compound doubling of the cue-ball is of difficult execution when combined with the “slowed” cue-ball.
Care should be used in the placing of the cue-ball for the execution of the stroke.