But how could you play snooker?
Daily Mirror, Monday 08 February 1904
An Indian officer was asked the other day at a club if he ever played snooker when he was in India. He said, “Oh, yes. We had a table up in the hill station, on which we played occasionally; but everything was so old that the colours had worn off all the balls, leaving them a dirty cream.” “But how could you play snooker,” gasped the astonished questioner, “if you couldn’t tell the difference between them?” “Oh,” yawned the officer, “the marker knew them by their shapes.”