The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 657
f the redshows the probable direction of the strikers ball after kissingthe red dead full. Now the position in which the balls are left enable a playersuch as we have mentioned to make as a rule another very easycannon, which brings the red ball over one or the other of thetop pockets, when on the… … Fig. 2. D, as he should do, will play the stroke too hard, and bringhis ball over one of the bottom pockets. In this case hisopponent should play for the cannon all round the table, asit is called. The ruled lines in Fig. 2 represent the cannon in question ;the dotted lines refer to another stroke.…
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