Re: Base of Ball or Edge of Ball??

Mere moments before death, Jim Eales hastily scrawled: 
>Fred Agnir:
>
>> Does that mean that a kick to the side rail that hits the cushion in the
>> kitchen but contacts the ball out of the kitchen isn't legal?
>
>I am trying to imagine a situation where, with ball-in-hand in the kitchen,
>I would be forced to play a kick off a rail in the kitchen to get at a ball
>outside the kitchen.

There is no such shot.  Any shot you could make by kicking at the
rail, could be made by simply placing the cue at the intended contact
point on the rail and shooting from there.

But, imagine this 8-ball mess:

START(
%Ag6Y6%B`0W8%CS9O3%Dc7W6%Ea3X4%Ff0T0%Gc9X8%Hg0Z9%Pp8X5%QA9[3
%Rs3[4
)END

Assume the one blocks enough of pocket B enough that this won't work:

START(
%Ag6Y6%B`0W8%CS9O3%Dc7W6%Ea3X4%Ff0T0%Gc9X8%Hg0Z9%Ph5P8%QA9[3
%Rs3[4%UD3V1%Vg8P9%We3Z8%XC3V2%]q9Z9%^f4Z8
)END

So you want to make this shot:

START(
%Ag6Y6%B`0W8%CS9O3%Dc7W6%Ea3X4%Ff0T0%Gc9X8%Hg0Z9%Pp8X5%QA9[3
%Rs3[4%Uh9Z9%Vp1X7%]D9Z9%^f4Z8
)END

(Yes, you could probably make a decent safe shot, but let's assume you
don't want to for whatever reason)

The cue ball will hit the cushion behind the line, but is it legal to
make the shot cushion first?  As I said, you could put the ball on the
rail, but do you want to chance a foul here?



Ed Chauvin IV

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