Champion at snooker
Southern Cross (Adelaide), Friday 22 November 1901
In the lobbies sound the bells! Dash the bells!
How the wobbler listens to their funereal knells!
And the "champion" at "snooker" flying, drops his chalk and cue.
While the laborites at euchre, nap or poker, chess or loo,
Answer, Time! Time! Time! Where's the reason or the rhyme
For this piercing shrilly clatter? Oh, the execrations, yells!
At the bells, the bells, the bells!
At the clatter and the batter of the bells.