The Long Loser

Every player of the game with the necessary time practises
long losers at every opportunity, and it is given to few
to become so expert that they can make sure of getting the
pocket, and bringing the red back to somewhere about the
centre spot or a little below it twenty times consecutively.

The play, when analysed clearly, indicates the necessity
for the exercise of fine judgment. Commencing with the
red on the centre spot and the white in hand, the first thing
the player who knows anything about it does, is to spot
his cue-ball right. Then his eye measures the true half-ball
stroke, his stance is made firmly, his bridge steadied
for the right height, his cue held in the right way, the
bridge made at the correct distance from the cue-ball, and
then the stroke is delivered.—Sydney Mail.