Tennis-courts, snooker tables, and whist rooms
Madras Weekly Mail, Thursday 08 February 1900
Where the emptiness of the station is perhaps most apparent, is in the nightly gathering at the Club, where tennis-courts, snooker tables, and whist rooms stand almost deserted, end even the bar, so lately crowded with its usual cheery coterie of jovial and thirsty souls, is now a howling wilderness of empty glasses and peg tumblers, behind which the Club butler stands entrenched in mournful idleness.