Except snooker, dear boy

Sporting Times, Saturday 31 March 1900

«”I have been,” quoth the military aspirant, “I have been to Chatham, and there I saw a lot of young officers —mere kiddies—whom I could have eaten alive. I could have taken them on at boxing, riding, wrestling, field-days—anything you like—and beaten everyone of ’em at anything you care to mention—”

“Except snooker, dear boy,” chipped in the adjutant.

And the military aspirant was dumb.