Morality of “snookers”
Civil & Military Gazette (Lahore), Wednesday 13 March 1889
If Baron Huddleston and Mr. Justice Wills are satisfied that pool is “gaming,” and therefore under certain circumstances illegal, what we wonder would these gentlemen say to “snookers”? What would they say to a pastime that combined the most compromising traits of pyramids cum pool? Billiards, as we are taught in early youth, are bad enough; pyramids are twice as bad; and every one knows where you will go to if you play pool. But the popular Indian game of “snookers” is worse than any, and accordingly the opinion of English jurists may be worth bearing in mind in the event of any of our High Courts having the whole question of the morality of “snookers” raised before it.