He would never join in at pool or snooker

Sheffield Weekly Telegraph, Saturday 14 March 1896

At times I am not so certain that Augustus Ganderton was quite the flat we imagined. True, it was that he would never join in at pool or snooker, but that would seem to have shown his common sense—supposing he’d got any, for he was such a rank duffer with a cue that he would have lost his money.