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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1952..

Billiards & Snooker

By HORACE LINDRUM (World Professional Snooker Champion)

What is the first thing you do when you are keen to take up golf or tennis? You would take instruction, and try to assimilate everything your instructor told you.

The reason I have begun in this tone is because I am often asked why so many players reach a certain standard at snooker and never get any further.

On many occasions I have notleed two and sometimes more players just knocking the balls about and enjoying the spirit of 'the game and one another's company. Most enthusiasts play the game as well as they know it, but how many really put a thinking cap on and study it as thes

would golf and other

"ports?

A hilliards table

in a good position (X) for the brown.

To play the brown and avoid my white coming to rest on the 1 would continue to cushion strike the cue-ball underneath and scrow away slightly.

I am now in position marked X6 and to get on the red over the middle left-hand pocket 1 would play the red near the pink

is 12ft. spot and follow through at the by Gft 114 inches In size correct speed to Jeave a nice and all kinds of angles angle on the pink (X7) for the can be made for cue-ball middle left-hand pocket, control-either by plain striking or by the use of running-side, to bring about a sharp angle, or check side to narrow the angle.

*14

PINKC

RED

BLACK

18

BLUE

KOREO

*15

O BROWN

Q 1

Playing the

the pink telicately- with top on my ball-would bring about a nice run-through position (X8) on the last red, I would then proceed to pot

run-

the last red with plenty of ning side and bring my ball off the left side baulk cushion to the brown to leave position for be potted into the bottom right-

hand corner

Potting Pocket

In potting the brown

position X9 the screw

would be

required.

executed by striking the

ball

from

chot

It

League Cricket

Chance For Craigengower To Turn The Tables This Afternoon

By "THE ZOMBIE"

Although no Cricket League fixtures are scheduled for this after- noon, a number of clubs are taking the opportunity of playing off their postponed fixtures.

played.

At least two First Division and one Second Division matches will be

Virtual leaders of the Senior League, the Scorpions will be the guests of Craigengower Cricket Club at Happy Valley and, although the favoured side, they may have to fight all the way through for their win as they had to last week.

Then if George Souza had Despite the fact that they ran Scorpions last Saturday found į

and had up a huge total of 216 runs for the Valley Club in grand fight-not been no hasty

stayed to sco another 50 runs fiva wickets declared, the ing mood.

up, the finish might have been Given a sporting chance of much closer and might have getting 217 runs in 130 minutes, boon in favour of the Valley tho Cralgengower cricketers club, Rave their opponents

eue- ||

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Facts About Squaws

some

afternoon thie

should an interesting

bo

naxious moments *15 George The return meeting between Souza and K, Y. Th

settled them down to beautiful scoring therefore strokes from the very first over affair, and in a one-afternoon and put 41 up on the board match, where a strong batting before Trum mispulled a full toss side always has the advantage. off Owen Hughes to give an

easy catch at mid-on.

into neath, to come back i low. My cue-ball would then

stunned

Sir,-"Keystone", in be

little right- with Д

Souza and Mohinder Singh hand side and brought off the column on the Ladies' Softball

League on Tuesday states that carried on the good work and in the Squaws versus S. China saw 98 up in just over

when

Souza George game on Sunday, "Bonnie Eyes hour,

seven innings

If Craigengower win the toss, the Champlon "Scorpions may yet meet with a shock if they do not reach the 180 mark on Arst lease of the wicket.

In the chanceless their brilliant

ono

address hula I would have to Remedios went the full distance literally threw away his wicket match, Recreio,

"13"

bottom left-hand side

CUE- BALL

across the table for the to position

cushion green

X11.

the ball

12

deliver

о

YELLOW

GREEN

In following my weekly diagrams you will gradually improve your alung knowledge of the game these lines.

Taking Inst week's problem, my first stroke would be to take the red nearest to the cue-ball and pot it into the right-hand middle pocket. With the aid of a gentle follow-through stroke: this would leave my white ball in position marked X1, for a nice angle on the blue into the middle left-hand pocket,

When taking the blue I would give the cuc-ball plenty, of right-hand side and send It on

not the green

would

of

Squaws."

my

underneath and with

sharp action to and bring lo rest In

position X12. From there I pot the brown into the

right-hand

corner pac-

This is incorrect,

for the after

(

bottom screw the white took over the pitching; this can

ket

be checked

who

a

grandi

for a

from

OVEX

other First Division

fresh victory innings.

Kowloon Cricket Club Jast at home to the wock, will be After hitting Leach straight six, he tried to lift the Indian Recreation Club. next one to deep-on. The ball A succession of defeats and a pitched slightly short on the chango of captaincy In tho leg stump, he missed

it and middlo

of the асалод

hivo was given out 1bw.

lowered the morale of the In-

Miss Remedios switched to Left Field in the fourth or fifth innings, and Dorothy Norman and

the blue.

with anyone ball on to

From X13 would play the saw the game, the score book,

Mohinder Singh and Ragi dian team during the last few blue delicately into the

left or Mr Fred Ewins, the Squaws kept alive the hopes of the hand middle pocket

the Valley Club by bringing with the new Manager.

a fairly They have white ball running through for

up to 131, when. Singh balanced alde, and can be scoro Further, he states that "the misconnected in his attempt to hand team to beat if only they

to tho

les make off their lethargy and

A

nice position (X14) on the Squaws battered S. China into pull Roberts

Into the submission with a thunderous pocket.

boundary.

With hla departure.

the

weeks.

well- a

make a real go at it. A good stand by Kitchell or Abbas will

TODAY'S MATCHES

pink for it to be pott

potted right-hand corner top a nice cue delivery and the valley of base blows, and were striking of the cue-ball on the injected with new life under top would bring it into position new and capable Management" bowlers soon got well on top, be of great value to the team. Xis for taking the black into

and Harry Owen Hughes, after I agree with this, in general, an unsuccessful over trom the the top left-hand corner poc- but would like to point out that Club and, founki, a-good- spot ket.

under the old Management, the from the Dockyard end to start Squaws also battered S. China the rot for the batsmen and into submission in the first finish up with the analysis of round game, with fourteen (14) seven wickets for 25 runs. bits,

You To Play

to the top left-hand side cushion: Until Next Week

would then accelerate with a sharplah angle to make contact with the top cushion and find its target the separation of the two reds clustered around, the Pink Spot.

UNDERNEATH

From position marked X2 on the diagram

I would address the cue-ball underneath for potting thered resting over the top right-hand corner pocket, to screw back slightly for the black into position X3.

I now pol the black into the top left-hand

and corner pocket with

a run-through delivery of the cue to bring the white ball off the top left-hand side cushion across

the table to rest position marked X4.

in

address

Once again I would the cue-ball underneath and pot the red into the top left-hand corner pocket and leave myself

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"STRIKE THREE”,

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NUMBER OF "IFS" There were a number of “4}{9" in this match. First 12 is prob able that the Scorpions would not have run so big a score - if Stanton had not been missed at least six times on his way to his

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