Snooker is a most gentlemanly game
Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore), Friday 13 January 1893
«”But, Emmie, my dear,” I broke in, “I do assure you I never gambled, last night, I only played a couple of games of Snooker.
“That’s right,” she sobbed “Snooker, and Loo, and Roulette and all your slang terms. Oh! I know them all!
“But Snooker is a most gentlemanly game” I urged, “and I happen to have won exactly two rupees.”