Wow...the entry fee was pretty stiff...almost two Gs in today's money.
I also think it was amazing that nobody averaged one....but there was a 10 and a 17 run.
The rules above are not clear. I'm pretty sure you were only allowed one safe in a row. See "consecutively" in the rules above which seems to have been left out of the first part of the rules. In theory, a player could play a safe to end each scoring inning and conceivably play one safe every inning if he had no open innings.... If I understand 1 safety per game without penalty. ....
In the current rules, you don't change balls. When the reversal is discovered, you go back to your original ball. In tournaments the player who breaks takes the white ball. That helps the inattentive a little.Rule #17 under 'Shooting with the Wrong Ball' is a new one on me.
Is that still actually the rule, that if I shoot and score twice in an inning with the wrong ball and it hasn't been called, we then reverse the colors of cue ball for the duration of the game (or, I suppose, until the mistake happens again)?
Beside the argument of the equipment the rules and the style of play in those days allow for safety play. If I understand 1 safety per game without penalty. I'm going to assume some safeties were taken even though they would be penalized.
It doesn't take too many blank innings to destroy an average. Couple that with the penalty points and its really tough to break 1.00 average.
if you win the match is your average that important??