“Snooker’s pool,” as it used to be called, must be a comparatively modern variety of billiards

Surrey Mirror, Friday 18 September 1925

“Snooker’s pool,” as it used to be called, must be a comparatively modern variety of billiards. At any rate, there is not any mention of it in “Hoyle’s Games,” published in 1808. A hundred years ago there were at least a dozen forms of the game. Some of the rules for the guidance of our grandfathers are quaint. For example: “He who shakes the table when the ball is running makes it a foul stroke,” and “He who blows on the ball when running makes it foul.”