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Modern Billiards

by Benjamin Garno

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Plate XXXVIII

Illustrating two extreme strokes, draw and twist.

Diagram 1.—Cue-ball ⅝ left, ½ below, object-ball, “very fine,” 1
32 left; stroke, ½ in excess of “medium”. Cue-ball cushions sharp at a, b, effecting carom on ball 2. Object-ball moving slowly, having been cut exceedingly fine, up table to c.

Diagram 2.—Cue-ball ⅝ left, ⅝ below, object-ball 1
16 right; stroke, “ordinary.” The point of aim on object-ball, 1
16 right, is to prevent cue-ball striking cushion after leaving object-ball.

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