Football
Brockley News, New Cross and Hatcham Review, Friday 15 May 1908 Charlton Conservative Club.—The Married v. Single members met in a football match on Saturday…
A Snipeopiferous ‘Snigger’
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative, Thursday 5 September 1901 A Little Doggerel on “Jack Snipe.” My friend “Snooker,” who is inclined to be poetical, writes…
Human snooker
Haslingden Gazette, Saturday 25 September 1909 Variegated colours are even more practicable than numbers, since the latter, being either on back or front, are not…
Marker Antony and Cleopottera
The Billiard Player. August-September 1921 “The game of billiards,” says the unveracious Hughes, “was known in Egypt, though the Pharaohs were more in favour of…
The song of the gardener
Kirkintilloch Herald, Wednesday 23 April 1924 This stuff is not for bachelors. Husbandmen only! for your single man seldom, if ever, goes in for gardening….
Any decent billiard player can do it
The Billiard Player. 1922 W. Smith and M. Inman are said to have once paid a visit to Cleethorpes, and at the amusement end of…
Amphibious, my dear, amphibious
The Billiard Player. 1920-21 In an exhibition game in London several years ago, Reece was making a fairly big break and had occasion to play…
Captain Snooker and brown Irish terrier
The men of Harlech. A newspaper for the Men of the 2nd battalion of the Welsh Regiment. February 1895 A tall, official looking man, with…
More cricket slang
The Sphere, Saturday 31 July 1909 More cricket slang. I find the Daily Mail describing Mr. Carr as “a googly merchant.” Who invented the word,…
Major Egbert Snuker
Daily News (London), Saturday 27 June 1925 TO-DAY’S ANNIVERSARY,MAJOR EGBERT SNUKER. It was on this day in 1066—or was that the Fire of London? Anyway,…