“Pendulum Cannon” to Be Restricted

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 121, 12 August 1927, Page 10

“Pendulum Cannon” to Be Restricted

Quite Right, Too, Says Tom Reese The pendulum stroke is to be restricted—this was unanimously agreed to at a meeting of the Billiards Control Council at which Mr. John C. Bisset presided. It was left to the Rules Committee to report upon the most satisfactory method of restricting the stroke. Tom Reece, whose “discovery” of the pendulum position was the sensation of last season’s billiards, told London “Sporting Life” that he was quite in sympathy with the council’s decision. “Restricted—yes; but not barred,” said Reece. “If a. man is clever enough to obtain such a position he should certainly reap some benefit from it. “Spectators don’t want the pendulum to disappear altogether. You can take that from me. As a spectacle the delicate ‘nursing’ of the balls until the final position is attained gives them as much pleasure as any other phase of the game. “With the position gained the player is entitled to some restricted run of cannons, and billiards spectators would not want to rob him of some reasonable reward. Tom Newman is known to favour limitation to a break of 500, which would include about 20 cushion-to-ball strokes.