Chang - Foul or Not?

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Another interesting shot I've seen only a couple of times in my life is when someone kicks at a ball and hits it so thin that the ball barely quivers. You must be in the right place to see this. Otherwise you would never know the object ball was contacted. I called this good hit a couple of times and the opponent fiercely objected. Of course I was standing very close to the object ball and he was sitting down at the far end of the table.

Jay, I remember rocking balls many times on the bar tables with the cloth used on them in the seventies and early eighties. I even took advantage of that for safeties when the shot was very short and I had very good eyes. It was possible to rock a ball in the dent it had formed if it sat there long and it drop back leaving an opening less than a ball wide! That was almost as good as the timed shots putting a ball in the jaws and the cue ball on top of it.

To make things more interesting, these shots couldn't look like deliberate safeties. Real men didn't play safeties and doing it in a bar was cause for a punch in the nose or an argument about paying the bet.

Happy Black Friday since I didn't mention Thanksgiving this year!
Hu