It was a game of snooker pool

Sporting Times, Saturday 27 February 1892

It was a game of snooker pool, and there was amongst the players one whose employment lately has been to find business for the Divorce Court. “I can’t play a ball myself,” said the cueist, “but I score off another man’s misses.” “So Sir Charles Butt says,” said Ballyhooly, and the coolness between the two is now registered as below freezing point.