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The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)

Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 92

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theline AO, its natural tendency is to go off to A \ if struck along BO itgoes to B, and if along CO to C;but suppose that while your ball isat B another ball that you want tohit after striking the cushion is at A\then you must strike the ball at B onits right side, as to give it a spinningmotion… … Fig. 7. same would be true if the cue-ballwere to first strike another ball in-stead of striking the cushion. Theeffect of side twist on the rebound of aball, either from another ball or froma cushion, is to make it bound fartherto the side on which the cue struckit. In addition to the twists…

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