A, B, C and D are playing Snookers

Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore), Wednesday 10 September 1890

Sir,—Will you kindly insert in your paper the following case which occurred at Snookers in our mess the other night. Perhaps you, or some of your correspondents, will kindly give us an opinion. A, B, C and D are playing Snookers. The mess rules bearing on the case are as follows—(1) any player playing out of turn makes a foul stroke for every stroke he plays, and is fined accordingly; (2) all fines are accumulative. D has played, it is thus A’s turn to play, B plays out of turn, A then plays, but without noticing that B has played out of turn. C and D then claim foul. Is A fined as well as B, or can he claim to have played in his turn although he played after B without noticing or claiming his (B’s) foul?

Mess Secretary.

[A has played out of turn and should therefore be fined —Ed. C. & M. G.]