New batch of “snookers”
The Regiment, Saturday 24 September 1898
On the officers’ ground on the barrack field the Riding Establishment had taken six young officers’ wickets for twenty-five. And further on, two “shop” officers were drilling two classes of gentlemen-cadets on the grass. Is the service going to the devil, or what? No; the reason of the cadets being drilled on the grass and not on the parade was that the new batch of “snookers” was just arriving, with their leather portmanteaux on the top of hansom cabs; our future Knights of Kars and Napiers of Magdala, so many young bears with all their troubles to come. Lord Roberts was at Addiscombe, and not at Woolwich.