In this chapter I am taking you back on the broad path of billiard progress.
Those all-round cannons and screw cannons, which I have dealt with in various other chapters of this book, are invariably extremely useful when you want them, and a working knowledge of the "drop cannon", which I went to some trouble to describe in the previous chapter, is something more than useful. But losing hazards are the acknowledged mainstay of English billiards. Every time you go in-off a ball you are allowed to place your ball where you please in the baulk half-circle. Melbourne Inman and Willie Smith made this the most potent factor in their play when winning the Championship in turn. That is how great the advantage is every time you make a well-played losing hazard, and the two wonderful cue-men I have named show what this advantage means when it is exploited to the utmost by a master...
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