Kind of modified snooker

American Memories. By John Kendall. 1896

We made considerable use of the Boston Club in New Orleans, of which we had been elected members. We lunched there on several occasions, and enjoyed thoroughly our only game at billiards whilst in the States; it was a kind of modified snooker, in which the player, in order to win, was obliged to score an exact number, any excess meant commencing “de noco.”