Cue Manipulators Interested in a New English Game
Lewiston evening teller (Lewiston, Idaho), 25 February 1904
Cue Manipulators Interested in a New English Game.
Snooker pool is a new game that D. Richards, an English champion in pool and billiards, has been trying to introduce into America. In London the game has become a popular fad in clubs and fashionable private houses and has already attracted much attention from players who have witnessed the playing of the English expert at the Montauk academy, Brooklyn.
Richards is the champion pyramid and nurse cannon billiard and pool player of England, South Africa and Egypt. He removed to New York to teach pool and billiards after the English style of games and brought letters of introduction from royalty and prominent Englishmen. The new game of snooker pool is played with the twelve balls used in ordinary English pool and the fifteen balls of pyramid pool in addition. On the English table of 12 by 6 feet the twenty-seven balls do not crowd the surface as on the ordinary American table.