Yesterday, I played my first match in a 14.1 league that I had played in a while back. I had stopped playing for certain reasons..... Well, nothing has changed.
During the match the score was 97 to 40 something (my favor). I was up at the table and I had two balls left, both balls were in the rack area. I pocketed one of the balls, made the cue ball come off the bottom rail bumping the other ball out of the rack area into a great break shot position. Also keeping the cue ball in the rack area, so that I could have ball in hand.
There is no rack lines on the table. The cue ball rolled close to the edge of the rack area but I knew it was in b/c of the marks on the cloth, it is easy to tell with that worn out cloth where the rack area is.
Anyways, I go over to write down my score while my opponent is racking. I look up and I see that he has a different rack then what we have been using for the whole game. A thin wood rack that his son had brought in with him to play his match on another table. We were using a house plastic rack which has a lip on the bottom that makes the rack wider. With the score being what it was, it meant we had used the house rack for 9 racks up to that point. He racks the balls and tells me that the cue ball is not in the rack...... I couldn't believe the Bull he was trying to get away with. I also observed that he had not properly placed the wood rack all the way up so that there was equal distance around the spot. I did not say anything about that. I just told him that I protest him using a different rack, which he got mad. Threw the wood rack back under the next table and re-racked using the plastic rack and I had cue ball in hand. Finally score was 150 to 68.
I wish that i could of beat him even better.
During the match the score was 97 to 40 something (my favor). I was up at the table and I had two balls left, both balls were in the rack area. I pocketed one of the balls, made the cue ball come off the bottom rail bumping the other ball out of the rack area into a great break shot position. Also keeping the cue ball in the rack area, so that I could have ball in hand.
There is no rack lines on the table. The cue ball rolled close to the edge of the rack area but I knew it was in b/c of the marks on the cloth, it is easy to tell with that worn out cloth where the rack area is.
Anyways, I go over to write down my score while my opponent is racking. I look up and I see that he has a different rack then what we have been using for the whole game. A thin wood rack that his son had brought in with him to play his match on another table. We were using a house plastic rack which has a lip on the bottom that makes the rack wider. With the score being what it was, it meant we had used the house rack for 9 racks up to that point. He racks the balls and tells me that the cue ball is not in the rack...... I couldn't believe the Bull he was trying to get away with. I also observed that he had not properly placed the wood rack all the way up so that there was equal distance around the spot. I did not say anything about that. I just told him that I protest him using a different rack, which he got mad. Threw the wood rack back under the next table and re-racked using the plastic rack and I had cue ball in hand. Finally score was 150 to 68.
I wish that i could of beat him even better.