Position at Billiards

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 79, 2 January 1892, Page 3

Position at Billiards

' ■•"f!i-ii"ji} 'SrtßA in S'lrit-f.-.-r.-i, t The position in ." winch a player; stands & tfTnaftir of^veiy f im-j :, portance, especially to novicea'pasVif ! they .onto get infcpi ha,bit r pJLstanding > mattoit(6qcorrectit[ Snppoise a player; ( to be about ; to f make^ran ordinary! stroke^for iniitance,' about to play i from 'the tfentre of batiik, he! M teak hi 6 own ball wiih ease- t^e •'M# r P odition ■^mwMssp^-l : should be about in!,, a. line yrith ihel v iflft&V& ; %e;^ioliM;itancli n ifhosd:)Be beijj. (|T^e bodyj ' should be inclined forward, so that; ■ tbjß}^le^)han(d , canr jres^ ? wit^ . ease: on j the table. . The ; ballf must be exactly & in iropt off ihe^Weß r in T * . line .with ;i thrfelSn Sjfhk he'-ifitlnfefo ot Tbegxnners. . _attd r ,also^-yery . pften ( too quickly aafterr r striking the ball;j t the very, inJrtant delivered jc jhß& e^3tft^W s i uWco"n^ou^ J p 7 p^a?aibi{in Si for tfife^k will of ten be .the' cause 1 of their mistdnff -\ thing for theivrtd^acqiiir^he habit .of i '^tand^f, p'eHobtly. %M'Mi<& 'Wrv&i \ . nlaWi sfirSke; 1 i&g^btfgb] \ to see if T they ; haye , scored also ] long ewa^h i-koj i^ 'm^theyffiave ob- "■ tamed posiMonr for^l^e {^flowing stroke -3-o.R'j jsuppose^ r"an , c inexperienced \ 'K^SM^lo'oife^Wltte^p , pockets, a rule, the momdni; ur tne v ;batt.^dn?ps intohiihe pocket ' } round to get it out. A good pla|ei rejnaius Q^|et>7dthjhis:-«ue;r§^njg;oE the bridge, a U l pocketed, and keeps his eye on the -„- . other, baJQ, to;see , u has, pbtajnec ' fiygr ; ; thft;jm4dle:,, ] " Book of Sports^n^agdinejßjr, Ui \ r , '