Rules of Snooker vary according to locality
Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore), Tuesday 08 November 1887
The Rules of Snooker.
We have received the following:—Sir,—In answer to your correspondent, “H. C. V. H.,” I beg to state that undoubtedly, according to the generally-accepted rules of Snooker, A was in the right and B decidedly in the wrong.
[We agree entirely with our correspondent that A was in the right; though the rules of Snooker vary according to locality. “H. C. V. H.” did not state whether both the second red and the black were pocketed as the result of the same stroke, or of consecutive strokes: but in either case, A was, according to the only published rules in our possession, entitled to score both. Having taken a red, A was entitled to play at the black or at any other ball, and to score any number of points that he might make by the stroke.
According to the local rules of a particular club, however, B may have been right. We think that the time has come for some representative committee of Indian players, to settle the rules of Snooker once for all, and should be glad to see some suggestions on the subject.—Ed., C. & M. G.]