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.